About Our Client

The organisation operates in the Technology industry and specializes in building scalable cloud-native products. It is known for its engineering-driven culture and focus on innovation, automation, and platform excellence.

Job Description

This role owns the platform that enterprise applications run on - the Kubernetes estate on AWS, and everything that determines whether it stays available, secure, and upgradeable. That means architecting and operating clusters, but it also means being the person who plans a control-plane upgrade across environments without taking production down, and who can explain to a security review exactly how tenant isolation is enforced and where the secrets actually live.

This role does not work as a pipeline-maintenance and ticket-triage play. The person needs genuine depth in Kubernetes internals to make the platform decisions, then stand behind them operationally when the cluster misbehaves at an inconvenient hour.

The Successful Applicant

We're looking for someone who has:

- 10+ years in Dev Ops, platform engineering, or SRE roles with a sustained Kubernetes focus.



Consuming a managed cluster someone else operates will not meet the bar - this role requires ownership of the platform itself.
- Expert-level production Kubernetes experience, on EKS or upstream Kubernetes, including upgrades, backup and restore, and rolling deployments across environments.
- Deep internals knowledge: etcd, control plane, scheduler, admission controllers, and the API server - enough to debug behaviour, not only configure it.
- Security primitives in practice: RBAC, Network Policies, CRDs, and Pod Security Admission standards.
- Hashi Corp Vault integration using the Kubernetes auth method and secrets injection, in a production environment.
- Service mesh in production: hands-on Istio and/or Linkerd deployment and operation. AWS infrastructure depth: IAM, VPC, EC2, ALB/NLB, and Cloud Watch.
- Automation toolchain: Terraform, Helm, and scripting in Bash, Python, or Go, with working Git Ops and CI/CD practice

What's on Offer

- Permanent Devops Architect role.
- Competitive compensation package with strong growth potential.
- Prospect to work in Chennai.
- High ownership in a product-focused engineering environment.

If this role fits your experience, you can apply for the role.

📌 Devops Architect- Chennai- 10+ yrs
🏢 Michael Page
📍 Chennai