Staff Engineer IT (Cloud Platform Engineering)

Overview

Staff Engineer IT in Cloud Platform Engineering, owning deployment and operation of platform solutions centred on AWS, Infrastructure as Code and GitOps-driven workflows.

What you'll do

• Own and drive the deployment of platform solutions with a strong emphasis on AWS, Infrastructure as Code, and GitOps driven workflows.
• Provision, upgrade, and operate production EKS clusters and core platform services in multi-tenant environments, including autoscaling patterns using Karpenter.
• Build and maintain GitOps workflows using Argo CD and CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, enabling repeatable, audited delivery patterns.
• Continuously evaluate and tune platform capabilities and services to improve reliability, performance, and cost efficiency for development teams.
• Build and maintain robust monitoring/alerting and recovery processes for platform services and components leveraging Datadog and Prometheus/Grafana.
• Implement secure-by-default cluster and workload patterns, including network and policy controls (e.g., Cilium and Kyverno), RBAC, and least-privilege access.
• Contribute to technical design docs and proposals; collaborate with Platform Architects for validation/approval and drive implementation through delivery.
• Participate in a required on-call rotation, including potential 24/7 coverage; lead troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and corrective/preventative actions.

What you'll need

• 10+ years of IT-related work experience with a Bachelor's degree OR 7+ years of IT-related work experience without a Bachelor's degree.
• 3+ years hands-on experience operating Kubernetes in production environments.
• 3+ years of leadership skills, with experience mentoring engineers, driving execution, and collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders.
• Strong hands-on experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code practices (modules, state management, environment promotion, CI integration).
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS, especially VPC/networking, IAM, and EKS-related services.
• Strong understanding of GitOps and CI/CD concepts with practical experience using Argo CD and GitHub Actions.
• Practical experience implementing and operating observability (metrics/logs/alerts) for platform services.

Nice to have

• EKS experience (strongly preferred).
• Kubernetes certifications (CKA/CKAD; CKS a plus); Kubernetes certificates are highly desirable.
• AWS certifications: Solution Architect Professional and/or DevOps Engineer Professional (highly desirable).
• Experience with Karpenter provisioning strategies, node consolidation, and cost/performance tuning.
• Experience with policy-as-code tooling such as Kyverno (writing/enforcing policies, exceptions, rollout strategy).
• Experience operating Datadog and Prometheus/Grafana at scale (dashboards, alert tuning, SLOs).
• Exposure to Crossplane concepts for enabling self-service infrastructure (without requiring deep specialization).

Details

• Location: Hyderabad, Telangana, India.
• Required on-call rotation, including potential 24/7 coverage.