The short version
Most cloud jobs in India are someone else's public cloud. This one is not. The prime focus is Kubernetes on hardware we own: clusters on metal, and tenant clusters those hosts provision. Git is the only path to production. You would own that platform.
You will not get an interview on Active Directory and Microsoft 365 alone, and you will not get one on a Kubernetes certificate alone. The person this is written for has already operated both, and wants Kubernetes to be the majority of the work going forward. On-prem Exchange is helpful. It is not the job.
The stack you will work with. Kubernetes (kubeadm, Cluster API, KubeVirt, hosted control planes, AKS) · Flux, Kustomize, Helm · Harbor · Keycloak · Active Directory, Entra ID, Entra Connect · Microsoft 365, Exchange Online · VMware vSphere/ESXi · Windows Server · Cisco UCS · OpenTofu, Ansible, PowerShell · Prometheus, Grafana · AlmaLinux, Ubuntu · Go, Python, Bash
What you would own
- Cluster lifecycle, both layers. Design, build, upgrade and operate Kubernetes across bare-metal (kubeadm),



virtualised (KubeVirt with Cluster API and hosted control planes) and managed cloud (AKS). Own the control plane: etcd backup and restore, certificate rotation, upgrades, RBAC and admission. Operate Cluster API so create, upgrade and retire is a repeatable path, not an artisan one. Workload topology (disruption budgets, anti-affinity, requests and limits) and multi-tenancy that actually holds. Diagnose the hard failures and turn them into runbooks.
- GitOps as the operating model. Flux, Kustomize, Helm. Desired state lives in Git, not in someone's shell history. Infrastructure as code with OpenTofu or Terraform and Ansible. Automate toil in PowerShell, Bash, and Python or Go. Written blast-radius and a rollback path before production changes.
- Cluster networking and storage, as a platform consumer. Own service exposure on the clusters: Gateway API and HTTPRoute, ingress, kube-vip and CoreDNS. Use NetworkPolicy, St

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