24 hours ago
Chennai, IndiaSenior
Responsibilities
- Operate and maintain highly available Kubernetes and OpenShift container platforms.
- Monitor cluster health and workload performance, respond to incidents, and resolve complex networking, performance, and system-level issues.
- Automate deployment, scaling, lifecycle management, and operational processes for container platforms.
- Optimize Kubernetes compute, memory, storage, performance, and cost utilization.
- Implement platform security controls, access management, compliance requirements, backup, recovery, and disaster recovery.
- Design and manage persistent storage, CSI drivers, and stateful workload architectures.
- Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows.
- Administer container registries, including image lifecycle management, access control, vulnerability scanning, and secure distribution.
- Evaluate emerging Kubernetes technologies and patterns and improve platform reliability and availability.
- Lead technical initiatives, communicate with cross-functional teams, and mentor engineers.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of professional experience, including a minimum of 3 years of experience with Red Hat OpenShift.
- 15 years of full-time education and a degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field focused on cloud computing and container technologies.
- Deep expertise in Kubernetes architecture, APIs, control plane internals, Docker or Podman, and Kubernetes/OpenShift cluster lifecycle management.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud and with infrastructure-as-code and automation practices.
- Established knowledge of networking concepts, CNI plugins, service connectivity, ingress configurations, and networking protocols.
- Expertise managing Kubernetes persistent storage, CSI-based storage, and stateful workloads.
- Proficiency with RBAC, policy engines, optimization, scaling, reliability, and availability of containerized workloads.
- Expertise designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows.
- Proficiency administering container registries such as Harbor.
- Familiarity with Prometheus, Grafana, and the ELK stack is beneficial.
- Proficiency in Python, Bash, or Go for automation and infrastructure management.
- Strong problem-solving, collaboration, communication, technical leadership, and mentoring skills.
Benefits
- Position based at the Chennai office.
- The role supports energy-efficient and resource-conscious IT platform operations.
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About Accenture
Accenture is a global professional services firm providing management consulting, systems integration and technology, cybersecurity, and business process outsourcing for enterprises and governments. It operates a services-driven model delivering projects and managed services, often with major cloud and software partners, across industries worldwide. Headquartered in Dublin and publicly traded on the NYSE (ACN), it originated as Andersen Consulting and adopted the Accenture name in 2001.