Staff Software Engineer I - Kubernetes,ArgoCD

Overview

Staff Software Engineer focused on DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering and Kubernetes platform engineering, with technical leadership on enterprise-grade Kubernetes platform strategy and GitOps practices using ArgoCD.

What you'll do

• Design, build and optimize scalable CI/CD pipelines and Kubernetes-native platform solutions.
• Drive Infrastructure as Code (IaC), automation and platform standardization initiatives.
• Improve developer experience through self-service infrastructure and deployment automation.
• Lead architecture discussions and establish Kubernetes and DevOps platform standards across engineering teams.
• Define and champion reliability standards, SLAs, SLOs and operational excellence frameworks.
• Lead incident response, root cause analysis and reliability improvement programs.
• Drive performance optimization, scalability enhancements, capacity planning and disaster recovery strategies.
• Build proactive monitoring, observability and alerting capabilities to improve system health and availability.
• Architect and manage GitOps practices using ArgoCD for multi-cluster Kubernetes application delivery.
• Automate application deployment, configuration management and environment provisioning.
• Establish deployment governance, release management processes and operational controls.
• Ensure secure, consistent and auditable deployments across all environments.
• Define and evolve enterprise Kubernetes platform architecture, standards and multi-cluster/multi-region deployment strategies.
• Design, deploy and operate production Kubernetes clusters at scale across cloud environments (EKS, AKS, GKE, or equivalent).
• Build and optimize containerized platform solutions using Docker and Kubernetes for high availability and performance.
• Lead adoption of Kubernetes-native tooling including Helm, Kustomize, operators and service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd, or equivalent).
• Drive cluster lifecycle management including upgrades, autoscaling, capacity planning, disaster recovery and cost optimization.
• Architect Kubernetes networking, ingress, storage (CSI), CNI and workload isolation patterns for complex enterprise workloads.
• Establish Kubernetes security frameworks including RBAC, network policies, pod security standards, secrets management and DevSecOps integration.
• Drive Infrastructure as Code adoption using Terraform or equivalent technologies for cloud and Kubernetes infrastructure.
• Partner with Security and Engineering teams to implement platform governance, compliance and operational controls.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers across DevOps and platform teams.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Product, Infrastructure and Security stakeholders to drive strategic initiatives.
• Participate in architecture reviews and technology roadmap discussions.
• Work closely with global teams across EMEA and US regions.
• Work across overlapping business hours and shifts when required to support global stakeholders and critical production environments.

What you'll need

• 12+ years of experience in Software Engineering, DevOps, Platform Engineering or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).
• Strong hands-on expertise in DevOps, SRE, CI/CD, Infrastructure Automation and Cloud Engineering.
• Proven experience implementing GitOps practices using ArgoCD.
• Deep expertise in Kubernetes platform architecture, cluster operations and troubleshooting at enterprise scale, including Docker, Microservices and Cloud Platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Proven experience architecting, deploying and operating large-scale production Kubernetes platforms in enterprise environments.
• Expert-level hands-on experience with Kubernetes tooling such as Helm, Kustomize, kubectl, cluster APIs and platform engineering frameworks.
• Experience leading Kubernetes migration, modernization and cloud-native transformation initiatives across multiple teams.
• Strong understanding of Kubernetes internals, container orchestration patterns and cloud-native architecture at scale.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or equivalent).
• Strong understanding of observability, monitoring, alerting, logging and production operations.
• Experience with monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Splunk, ELK, New Relic or similar platforms.
• Strong troubleshooting, incident management, root cause analysis and production support experience.
• Experience developing automation and operational tooling using Python, Shell, Go or similar technologies.
• Strong understanding of security, compliance and reliability engineering principles.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication and technical leadership skills.
• Experience working with globally distributed teams across EMEA and US regions.
• Ability to drive technical decisions, define Kubernetes platform roadmaps, influence engineering practices and lead large-scale platform initiatives.
• Flexibility to collaborate with global stakeholders across multiple time zones and support business-critical operations when needed.

Details

• Location: Bangalore.
• Flexibility to work across overlapping business hours and shifts when required.