Senior Technical Lead (India)

Senior Technical Lead (India)

31 Oct
|
HCLTech
|
India

31 Oct

HCLTech

India

Job Summary

Experience in Kubernetes Platform Engineering, GitOps, Argo CD, Kargo, and Crossplane. Responsible for modernizing software delivery, implementing Git-based promotion workflows, enabling progressive delivery, automating deployment validation, and building self-service infrastructure provisioning capabilities across large-scale multi-cluster and multi-region Kubernetes environments.

Must Have

- Experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure, or Kubernetes Platform Operations.
- Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes and Amazon EKS in enterprise-scale environments.
- Deep expertise in Argo CD including Applications, ApplicationSets, AppProjects, Sync Waves, Health Checks, and GitOps deployment practices.
- Proven experience implementing Kargo including Warehouses, Freight, Stages, Promotion Tasks, ClusterPromotionTasks, and Git-based promotion workflows.
- Experience designing and implementing automated software promotion across Sandbox, Staging, Production Ready, and Production environments.
- Strong expertise in Progressive Delivery practices including Canary, Blue-Green, and staged deployment strategies.
- - Hands-on experience implementing deployment validation, smoke tests, quality gates, Kargo Analysis Templates, and Argo Rollouts.

- Deep expertise in Crossplane Compositions, Claims, and Kubernetes-based infrastructure provisioning.
- Strong experience with Helm, Helmfile, Kustomize, OCI registries, and Kubernetes operator lifecycle management.
- Experience managing multi-cluster and multi-region Kubernetes environments at scale.
- Experience implementing Git-based stage branch promotion models and rendered manifest deployment patterns.
- Strong understanding of release engineering, deployment orchestration, and software delivery lifecycle management.
- Experience with Kyverno, External Secrets, IRSA, and cloud-native security controls.
- Experience creating Architecture Decision Records (ADRs), operational runbooks, and platform engineering documentation.
- Strong troubleshooting, automation, stakeholder management, and communication skills
- Good to Have

- Terragrunt and Infrastructure as Code frameworks.
- Go (Golang) development experience.
- GitHub Actions, reusable workflows, and GitHub App integrations.
- Testkube or deployment verification frameworks.
- ArgoCD Agent / Hub-and-Spoke deployment architecture.
- Backstage and Internal Developer Platform (IDP) implementations.

Release process and OCI-based artifact management.

- Experience supporting globally distributed SaaS platforms.
- Experience leading GitOps transformation and Platform Engineering modernization initiatives.
- Exposure to developer self-service and Golden Path platform patterns

Tool / Technology

Proficiency

Kubernetes / EKS

5/5

Argo CD

5/5

Kargo

5/5

Crossplane

5/5

GitOps

5/5

Helm / Helmfile

5/5

Kustomize

4/5

Argo Rollouts

4/5

GitHub Actions

4/5

OCI Registries (GHCR/ECR)

4/5

Kyverno

4/5

External Secrets

4/5

Terragrunt

3/5

Go (Golang)

3/5

Testkube

2/5

Key Responsibilities

Experience in Kubernetes Platform Engineering, GitOps, Argo CD, Kargo, and Crossplane. Responsible for modernizing software delivery, implementing Git-based promotion workflows, enabling progressive delivery, automating deployment validation, and building self-service infrastructure provisioning capabilities across large-scale multi-cluster and multi-region Kubernetes environments.

Must Have

- Experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure, or Kubernetes Platform Operations.
- Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes and Amazon EKS in enterprise-scale environments.
- Deep expertise in Argo CD including Applications, ApplicationSets, AppProjects, Sync Waves, Health Checks, and GitOps deployment practices.
- Proven experience implementing Kargo including Warehouses, Freight, Stages, Promotion Tasks, ClusterPromotionTasks, and Git-based promotion workflows.
- Experience designing and implementing automated software promotion across Sandbox, Staging, Production Ready, and Production environments.
- Strong expertise in Progressive Delivery practices including Canary, Blue-Green, and staged deployment strategies.




- - Hands-on experience implementing deployment validation, smoke tests, quality gates, Kargo Analysis Templates, and Argo Rollouts.

- Deep expertise in Crossplane Compositions, Claims, and Kubernetes-based infrastructure provisioning.
- Strong experience with Helm, Helmfile, Kustomize, OCI registries, and Kubernetes operator lifecycle management.
- Experience managing multi-cluster and multi-region Kubernetes environments at scale.
- Experience implementing Git-based stage branch promotion models and rendered manifest deployment patterns.
- Strong understanding of release engineering, deployment orchestration, and software delivery lifecycle management.
- Experience with Kyverno, External Secrets, IRSA, and cloud-native security controls.
- Experience creating Architecture Decision Records (ADRs), operational runbooks, and platform engineering documentation.
- Strong troubleshooting, automation, stakeholder management, and communication skills
- Good to Have

- Terragrunt and Infrastructure as Code frameworks.
- Go (Golang) development experience.
- GitHub Actions, reusable workflows, and GitHub App integrations.
- Testkube or deployment verification frameworks.
- ArgoCD Agent / Hub-and-Spoke deployment architecture.
- Backstage and Internal Developer Platform (IDP) implementations.

Release process and OCI-based artifact management.

- Experience supporting globally distributed SaaS platforms.
- Experience leading GitOps transformation and Platform Engineering modernization initiatives.
- Exposure to developer self-service and Golden Path platform patterns

Tool / Technology

Proficiency

Kubernetes / EKS

5/5

Argo CD

5/5

Kargo

5/5

Crossplane

5/5

GitOps

5/5

Helm / Helmfile

5/5

Kustomize

4/5

Argo Rollouts

4/5

GitHub Actions

4/5

OCI Registries (GHCR/ECR)

4/5

Kyverno

4/5

External Secrets

4/5

Terragrunt

3/5

Go (Golang)

3/5

Testkube

2/5

Skill Requirements

Experience in Kubernetes Platform Engineering, GitOps, Argo CD, Kargo, and Crossplane. Responsible for modernizing software delivery, implementing Git-based promotion workflows, enabling progressive delivery, automating deployment validation, and building self-service infrastructure provisioning capabilities across large-scale multi-cluster and multi-region Kubernetes environments.

Must Have

- experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure, or Kubernetes Platform Operations.
- Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes and Amazon EKS in enterprise-scale environments.
- Deep expertise in Argo CD including Applications, ApplicationSets, AppProjects, Sync Waves, Health Checks, and GitOps deployment practices.
- Proven experience implementing Kargo including Warehouses, Freight, Stages, Promotion Tasks, ClusterPromotionTasks, and Git-based promotion workflows.
- Experience designing and implementing automated software promotion across Sandbox, Staging, Production Ready, and Production environments.
- Strong expertise in Progressive Delivery practices including Canary, Blue-Green, and staged deployment strategies.
- - Hands-on experience implementing deployment validation, smoke tests, quality gates, Kargo Analysis Templates, and Argo Rollouts.

- Deep expertise in Crossplane Compositions, Claims, and Kubernetes-based infrastructure provisioning.
- Strong experience with Helm, Helmfile, Kustomize, OCI registries, and Kubernetes operator lifecycle management.
- Experience managing multi-cluster and multi-region Kubernetes environments at scale.
- Experience implementing Git-based stage branch promotion models and rendered manifest deployment patterns.
- Strong understanding of release engineering, deployment orchestration, and software delivery lifecycle management.
- Experience with Kyverno, External Secrets, IRSA, and cloud-native security controls.
- Experience creating Architecture Decision Records (ADRs), operational runbooks,



and platform engineering documentation.
- Strong troubleshooting, automation, stakeholder management, and communication skills
- Good to Have

- Terragrunt and Infrastructure as Code frameworks.
- Go (Golang) development experience.
- GitHub Actions, reusable workflows, and GitHub App integrations.
- Testkube or deployment verification frameworks.
- ArgoCD Agent / Hub-and-Spoke deployment architecture.
- Backstage and Internal Developer Platform (IDP) implementations.

Release process and OCI-based artifact management.

- Experience supporting globally distributed SaaS platforms.
- Experience leading GitOps transformation and Platform Engineering modernization initiatives.
- Exposure to developer self-service and Golden Path platform patterns

Tool / Technology

Proficiency

Kubernetes / EKS

5/5

Argo CD

5/5

Kargo

5/5

Crossplane

5/5

GitOps

5/5

Helm / Helmfile

5/5

Kustomize

4/5

Argo Rollouts

4/5

GitHub Actions

4/5

OCI Registries (GHCR/ECR)

4/5

Kyverno

4/5

External Secrets

4/5

Terragrunt

3/5

Go (Golang)

3/5

Testkube

2/5

Must Have Skill

Devops,Helm,Kubernetes,GitHub Actions,GitOps

Good to Have Skill

Golang

Other Requirements

Experience in Kubernetes Platform Engineering, GitOps, Argo CD, Kargo, and Crossplane. Responsible for modernizing software delivery, implementing Git-based promotion workflows, enabling progressive delivery, automating deployment validation, and building self-service infrastructure provisioning capabilities across large-scale multi-cluster and multi-region Kubernetes environments.

Must Have

- Experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure, or Kubernetes Platform Operations.
- Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes and Amazon EKS in enterprise-scale environments.
- Deep expertise in Argo CD including Applications, ApplicationSets, AppProjects, Sync Waves, Health Checks, and GitOps deployment practices.
- Proven experience implementing Kargo including Warehouses, Freight, Stages, Promotion Tasks, ClusterPromotionTasks, and Git-based promotion workflows.
- Experience designing and implementing automated software promotion across Sandbox, Staging, Production Ready, and Production environments.
- Robust expertise in Progressive Delivery practices including Canary, Blue-Green, and staged deployment strategies.
- - Hands-on experience implementing deployment validation, smoke tests, quality gates, Kargo Analysis Templates, and Argo Rollouts.

- Deep expertise in Crossplane Compositions, Claims, and Kubernetes-based infrastructure provisioning.
- Strong experience with Helm, Helmfile, Kustomize, OCI registries, and Kubernetes operator lifecycle management.
- Experience managing multi-cluster and multi-region Kubernetes environments at scale.
- Experience implementing Git-based stage branch promotion models and rendered manifest deployment patterns.
- Strong understanding of release engineering, deployment orchestration, and software delivery lifecycle management.
- Experience with Kyverno, External Secrets, IRSA, and cloud-native security controls.
- Experience creating Architecture Decision Records (ADRs), operational runbooks, and platform engineering documentation.
- Strong troubleshooting, automation, stakeholder management, and communication skills
- Good to Have

- Terragrunt and Infrastructure as Code frameworks.
- Go (Golang) development experience.
- GitHub Actions, reusable workflows, and GitHub App integrations.
- Testkube or deployment verification frameworks.
- ArgoCD Agent / Hub-and-Spoke deployment architecture.
- Backstage and Internal Developer Platform (IDP) implementations.

Release process and OCI-based artifact management.

- Experience supporting globally distributed SaaS platforms.
- Experience leading GitOps transformation and Platform Engineering modernization initiatives.
- Exposure to developer self-service and Golden Path platform patterns

Tool / Technology

Proficiency

Kubernetes / EKS

5/5

Argo CD

5/5

Kargo

5/5

Crossplane

5/5

GitOps

5/5

Helm / Helmfile

5/5

Kustomize

4/5

Argo Rollouts

4/5

GitHub Actions

4/5

OCI Registries (GHCR/ECR)

4/5

Kyverno

4/5

External Secrets

4/5

Terragrunt

3/5

Go (Golang)

3/5

Testkube

2/5

📌 Senior Technical Lead (India)
🏢 HCLTech
📍 India

Reply to this offer

Impress this employer describing Your skills and abilities, fill out the form below and leave Your personal touch in the presentation letter.

Subscribe to this job alert:

Get the latest job offers by email for: senior technical lead (india) / india