Duties and responsibilities shall include but not limited to:

• Deploy microservices. Package, release, and operate containerized microservices on Kubernetes with zero-downtime strategies (rolling, blue-green, canary).
• Provision Kubernetes clusters. Stand up, upgrade, and maintain production-grade clusters using open-source tooling such as Kubespray, including on-prem and bare-metal deployments.
• Automate delivery (CI/CD). Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows for fast, safe, repeatable releases.
• Manage infrastructure as code. Define and version infrastructure with tools like Terraform and Ansible; treat environments as reproducible code.
• Ensure reliability & observability. Implement monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting, and SLOs; lead incident response and continuous improvement.
• Harden security & compliance. Apply container and cluster security, secrets management, RBAC, and network policies aligned to best practice.
• Optimize cost & performance. Right-size workloads, tune autoscaling, and improve resource efficiency across clusters.
• Collaborate, mentor, and keep learning. Partner with developers, contribute to open-source where relevant, and continuously adopt new tools and methodologies.

• Platform availability and uptime of Kubernetes clusters and hosted microservices.
• Deployment frequency, lead time for changes, and change failure rate (DORA metrics).
• Mean time to detect (MTTD) and mean time to recover (MTTR) for platform incidents.
• Coverage of infrastructure managed as code and automation of previously manual tasks.
• Security and compliance posture: RBAC, secrets management, image scanning, and policy adherence.
• Cost and resource efficiency improvements across clusters and workloads.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field — or equivalent practical experience.
• Typically, two (2)+ years in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering, including hands-on Kubernetes in production and cluster provisioning with tools such as Kubespray.
• Certifications (CKA/CKAD/CKS, Terraform Associate) and open-source contributions are an advantage; fintech/banking experience is a plus.

Technical Skills — Containers & Orchestration

• Strong hands-on experience deploying and operating microservices on Kubernetes in production.
• Cluster provisioning and lifecycle management with open-source tooling such as Kubespray; Helm for packaging and Kustomize for configuration.
• Docker and container best practices (image hardening, multi-stage builds, registries).

Technical Skills — CI/CD & Automation

• CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Jenkins) and GitOps (Argo CD or Flux).
• Scripting and automation (Bash, Python, or Go) to eliminate manual toil.

Technical Skills — Infrastructure as Code & Cloud

• Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and configuration management with Ansible.
• Experience with at least one cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP) and/or on-prem and bare-metal environments; Linux administration and networking.

Technical Skills — Observability, Reliability & Security

• Monitoring and logging stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/Loki) and distributed tracing (Jaeger/OpenTelemetry).
• Cluster and supply-chain security (RBAC, network policies, secrets management, image scanning); familiarity with service mesh (Istio/Linkerd) is a plus.

Core Competencies & Mindset

• Fast learner. Quickly ingests and applies new tools, open-source projects, approaches, and methodologies with minimal ramp-up.
• Automation-first & systems thinking. Automates by default and reasons about the whole distributed system, not just single components.
• Reliability & ownership. Takes end-to-end accountability for uptime, performance, and security, with strong attention to detail.
• Open-source oriented. Comfortable reading, adopting, and contributing to open-source tooling like Kubespray and the broader CNCF ecosystem.
• Collaboration & communication. Works effectively with developers and stakeholders and communicates clearly under pressure, including during incidents.