We are hiring a Senior Site Reliability Engineer / Platform Engineer to own the reliability, security, automation, and scalability of our AWS EKS platform.
This is a Platform Ownership role, not a traditional DevOps position.
You will design and operate production-grade Kubernetes platforms, enforce security policies, implement GitOps workflows, and drive SRE operational excellence across environments.
Key Responsibilities: Kubernetes & EKS Platform Engineering
- Architect, deploy, and operate production AWS EKS clusters
- Implement EKS automation using EKS Blueprints
- Perform Kubernetes/EKS version upgrades with minimal downtime
Autoscaling & Compute Optimization
- Design and operate Karpenter-based autoscaling
- Optimize cost, performance, and availability using dynamic provisioning
Service Mesh & Traffic Management
- Design and operate Istio (sidecar / ambient mesh)
- Implement mTLS, retries, circuit breaking, and timeout policies
Policy, Security & Runtime Protection
- Enforce Kubernetes admission policies using Kyverno / OPA Gatekeeper
- Operate Falco for runtime threat detection
- Integrate security controls into GitOps pipelines
Infrastructure as Code
- Build reusable Terraform modules (VPC, EKS, Transit Gateway)
- Implement Terragrunt for multi-account and multi-region deployments
GitOps & Platform Operations
- Design and operate Argo CD for platform and add-on management
- Define Git-based promotion and access models
Observability & SRE Operations
- Build Prometheus-based monitoring and alerting
- Participate in incident response and root cause analysis
- Reduce operational toil through automation and self-service tooling
Security & Compliance
- Own remediation of Wiz security findings across AWS and EKS
- Partner with Security teams to implement preventive guardrails
MUST HAVE (Hard Filters – Profiles without these will not be considered)
- 6+ years experience in SRE / Platform Engineering / Cloud Infrastructure
- Production ownership of AWS EKS
- Strong hands-on Terraform + Terragrunt
- GitOps using Argo CD
- Karpenter autoscaling
- Istio service mesh experience
- Kyverno or OPA/Gatekeeper
- Falco runtime security
- Prometheus monitoring
- Strong AWS fundamentals: VPC, IAM, EC2, ALB/NLB, EBS/EFS
- Proven Wiz remediation experience
- Willingness to share current compensation details / payslip as part of the hiring process
Nice to Have
- Ambient Mesh
- SLO / SLI / Error Budget experience
- Regulated or large-scale environments
Important
This role is not suitable for:
- Backend engineers
- Junior DevOps engineers
- CI/CD-only profiles
- Freshers
We are looking for engineers who own platforms end-to-end.
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Send your resume to: Hari@bprompta.com
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: Up to ₹2,000,727.80 per year
Work Location: In person