Lead Senior Associate

Role Description: Sr. Kubernetes ISTIO Engineer

• Design, deploy, and operate Kubernetes platforms on AWS EKS and Oracle OKE, ensuring scalability, resilience, security, and operational excellence.
• Architect and manage Istio service mesh across multi‑cluster and multi‑cloud environments for secure, reliable service communication.
• Implement advanced traffic management patterns including canary, blue/green, traffic splitting, circuit breaking, and fault injection.
• Optimize cluster performance through autoscaling, node pool management, workload scheduling, and resource efficiency.
• Enforce mTLS, zero‑trust networking, and policy‑based security controls across Kubernetes and Istio.
• Manage Istio ingress/egress gateways, Envoy proxy configurations, and external traffic integrations.
• Build and operate observability platforms using Prometheus, Grafana, Kiali, Jaeger/Zipkin, CloudWatch, and OCI Monitoring.
• Troubleshoot Kubernetes and service‑mesh issues, including latency, routing failures, and sidecar performance.
• Automate infrastructure and mesh lifecycle using Terraform, Helm, GitOps (ArgoCD/Flux), and CI/CD pipelines.
• Define and drive SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets to improve reliability and service quality.
• Integrate Kubernetes and Istio with cloud networking components such as VPCs, subnets, and load balancers.
• Enable platform self‑service, mentor teams, and promote platform engineering best practices.

As a prospective candidate, you should possess:

• Hands‑on experience in Kubernetes platform engineering with production use of Istio and Envoy.
• Strong knowledge of AWS EKS and Oracle OKE, including cluster architecture, operations, and scaling.
• Proficiency with Terraform, Helm, and GitOps tools (ArgoCD/Flux).
• Solid understanding of cloud networking, including VPCs, CNIs, ingress/egress, load balancers, and network policies.
• Experience implementing mTLS, zero‑trust networking, and identity integrations (OIDC, OAuth2, SPIFFE/SPIRE).
• Hands‑on experience with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Kiali, Jaeger/Zipkin, CloudWatch, or OCI Monitoring.
• Strong scripting skills in Python, Bash, or Go for platform automation.
• Experience integrating Kubernetes and Istio with CI/CD and DevOps practices.
• Exposure to multi‑cluster/multi‑cloud environments and container security tools is a plus.
• Self‑driven with the ability to handle ambiguity, escalations, and clear stakeholder communication.

Desired qualifications

• Bachelors in computer science or related field or equivalent work experience.
• Certifications such as:
• CKA / CKAD / CKS
• AWS Solutions Architect / DevOps Engineer
• OCI Architect
• Business Experience: 7-9 Years of experience.

Location and way of working.

Base location: Hyderabad