Senior DevOps Engineer

Overview

Senior Kubernetes Engineer on Solera's Virtualization Platform team, building, maturing and supporting Solera applications on Kubernetes platforms across virtualization environments and the public cloud.

What you'll do

• Own and deliver platform workstreams end to end, including lifecycle upgrades across a large multi-region cluster estate (Kubernetes, node OS, service mesh, ingress, and platform add-ons), from planning and pre-work through documentation and rollout.
• Design and improve how clusters are built and managed: GitOps-driven provisioning, cluster lifecycle automation, and standardised Helm charts consumed by development teams.
• Act as a senior escalation point in an on-call rotation for highly available enterprise-class systems, leading incident diagnosis to root cause and driving the follow-up actions.
• Partner directly with application engineering teams on resource optimisation, rightsizing, workload resiliency, and remediation of platform-level blockers.
• Strengthen container security and networking posture, including runtime policy enforcement, secrets management, image supply chain, and ingress/API gateway configuration.
• Shape and maintain the Kubernetes roadmap alongside the operations leads: estimate scope, sequence work against business outcomes, and flag risk early.
• Mentor engineers on the team, review their designs and changes, and raise the bar on documentation and operational practice.
• Author and maintain runbooks, standards, and internal documentation that other engineers and development teams rely on as the source of truth.
• Complete daily operational work, including change requests and troubleshooting tickets, and systematically convert recurring toil into automation.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience operating Kubernetes in production.
• At least 2 years at scale across multiple clusters or regions (Rancher/RKE2, Tanzu, OpenShift, PCF, EKS/AKS, or upstream Kubernetes).
• Deep working knowledge of the Kubernetes ecosystem and adjacent platform tooling: ArgoCD, Kong, Vault, Traefik, NeuVector, Istio, ingress-nginx, cert-manager, Prometheus/Grafana, or close equivalents.
• Strong understanding of container runtimes (containerd, Docker) and a Kubernetes distribution such as Rancher Kubernetes Engine, including cluster upgrade and node lifecycle mechanics.
• Proficient scripting and automation skills in Bash and Python (or PowerShell/Go), with a demonstrated track record of eliminating manual work through code, Ansible, or GitOps.
• Proven ability to lead complex, cross-team technical projects independently and make sound design decisions with minimal supervision.
• Experience mentoring or technically guiding less experienced engineers.
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail, with the flexibility to adapt and meet changing demands.
• Proactive ownership within a collaborative, globally distributed environment.
• Ability to thrive under pressure in a demanding environment, with a commitment to excellence.
• Intellectually curious and prepared to challenge and be challenged.

Nice to have

• Container networking and security at depth: CNI behaviour, network policy, runtime security enforcement, TLS and certificate management.
• Cluster API / infrastructure-as-code provisioning of Kubernetes clusters on vSphere or equivalent.
• Storage integration in Kubernetes (CSI drivers, NetApp, Dell, or similar).
• Monitoring, alerting, and logging at scale (Prometheus, Grafana, New Relic, Elasticsearch or Graylog), including alert routing and noise reduction.
• CI/CD pipelines and modern DevOps practice, including GitHub Actions.
• Backup and disaster recovery for Kubernetes (Velero or equivalent).
• VMware platforms and public cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.

Details

• Location: Bangalore.
• Willingness to work flexible hours across time zones.
• On-call rotation participation.