Lead Senior Associate | Engineering Foundry & Managed Services | Hyderabad | Engineering as a Servic
Deloitte Advisory2 months ago
Hyderābād, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design, deploy, and operate scalable Kubernetes platforms on AWS EKS and Oracle OKE.
- Architect and manage Istio service meshes across multi-cluster and multi-cloud environments.
- Implement canary, blue/green, traffic splitting, circuit breaking, fault injection, mTLS, zero-trust networking, and policy-based security controls.
- Optimize cluster performance through autoscaling, node pool management, workload scheduling, and resource efficiency.
- Manage Istio gateways, Envoy proxy configurations, external traffic integrations, and cloud networking components.
- Build and operate observability platforms and troubleshoot Kubernetes and service-mesh issues.
- Automate infrastructure and mesh lifecycle using Terraform, Helm, GitOps, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Define and drive SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets to improve reliability and service quality.
- Enable platform self-service, mentor teams, and promote platform engineering best practices.
- Handle ambiguity and escalations while communicating clearly with stakeholders.
Requirements
- 7–9 years of business experience.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
- Hands-on production experience in Kubernetes platform engineering with Istio and Envoy.
- Strong knowledge of AWS EKS and Oracle OKE, including cluster architecture, operations, and scaling.
- Proficiency with Terraform, Helm, and GitOps tools such as ArgoCD or Flux.
- Understanding of cloud networking, including VPCs, CNIs, ingress and egress, load balancers, and network policies.
- Experience implementing mTLS, zero-trust networking, and identity integrations such as OIDC, OAuth2, and SPIFFE/SPIRE.
- Hands-on experience with Prometheus, Grafana, Kiali, Jaeger or Zipkin, CloudWatch, or OCI Monitoring.
- Strong scripting skills in Python, Bash, or Go.
- Experience integrating Kubernetes and Istio with CI/CD and DevOps practices.
- Exposure to multi-cluster or multi-cloud environments and container security tools is a plus.
- Relevant certifications such as CKA, CKAD, CKS, AWS Solutions Architect, AWS DevOps Engineer, or OCI Architect are desirable.
- Strong stakeholder communication, analytical, collaboration, and leadership skills.
Benefits
- Base location is Hyderabad.
- The role offers opportunities to mentor teams, develop platform capabilities, and work on client-facing engineering engagements.
About Deloitte Advisory
Deloitte Advisory provides consulting and managed services that help organizations manage risk, strengthen controls, investigate fraud, meet regulatory requirements, and execute transactions using analytics and industry expertise. Offerings span cybersecurity, M&A due diligence, finance and regulatory transformation, internal audit, and tech-enabled platforms. It is part of Deloitte’s global network (founded in 1845 and privately held), with U.S. member-firm teams serving corporations and government agencies across sectors.