Lead Senior Associate | Engineering Foundry & Managed Services | Hyderabad | Engineering as a Servic
Deloitte AdvisoryResponsibilities
- 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.
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