Senior Site Reliability Engineer / Platform Engineer - AWS EKS (Hybrid)

About the Role

This position is responsible for ensuring the reliability, security, automation, and scalability of the AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) platform. Acting as a platform owner, the Senior Site Reliability Engineer / Platform Engineer supports application teams by providing standardized infrastructure, GitOps workflows, policy enforcement, and monitoring capabilities. The role demands advanced hands-on experience in Kubernetes, AWS cloud services, security tools, and SRE practices.

Work Location & Mode

• Available work locations: Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune
• Work mode: Hybrid

Key Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain production-grade Kubernetes environments on AWS EKS.
• Automate EKS deployments with EKS Blueprints and manage lifecycle of EKS add-ons.
• Plan and carry out Kubernetes and EKS version upgrades with minimal downtime.
• Develop and operate autoscaling solutions using Karpenter for both stateless and stateful workloads.
• Optimize cloud resource usage for cost, performance, and availability by dynamic instance provisioning.
• Implement and manage Istio service mesh including sidecar and ambient mesh deployments.
• Configure traffic policies such as mutual TLS, retries, circuit breaking, and timeouts within Istio.
• Apply Kubernetes policy enforcement and admission control via Kyverno and OPA/Gatekeeper.
• Operate Falco for runtime security monitoring and threat detection.
• Integrate security controls within GitOps pipelines.
• Create reusable Terraform modules for AWS infrastructure components such as VPCs, EKS clusters, and Transit Gateways.
• Use Terragrunt to handle multi-account and multi-region infrastructure setups.
• Manage Argo CD for platform, security policies, and add-on component delivery.
• Define Git-based environment promotion workflows and access management strategies.
• Implement Prometheus-based metrics monitoring and alerting systems.
• Take part in incident response actions, perform root cause analyses, and drive reliability improvements.
• Automate operations to reduce manual effort and enable self-service tooling.
• Handle remediation of Wiz security alerts for AWS infrastructure and Kubernetes clusters.
• Collaborate with security teams to establish preventive measures and guardrails.

Required Experience and Skills

• Minimum 6 years in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, or Cloud Infrastructure roles.
• Strong expertise managing Kubernetes platforms and AWS EKS environments.
• Proficient with Terraform, Terragrunt, and EKS Blueprints implementations.
• Experience deploying Karpenter autoscaling for cloud workloads.
• In-depth knowledge of Istio service mesh and its traffic management policies.
• Practical experience with Kyverno, OPA/Gatekeeper for admission control and governance.
• Using Falco for runtime security threat detection and forensic investigations.
• Skilled in Prometheus for observability and alerting solutions.
• Hands-on experience configuring GitOps workflows using Argo CD.
• Solid understanding of AWS fundamentals including VPC, IAM, EC2, ALB/NLB, EBS, and EFS.
• Proven ability to analyze and resolve Wiz security findings in AWS environments.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Ambient Mesh deployment models.
• Familiarity with Site Reliability Engineering indicators such as SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets.
• Exposure to operating within large-scale or regulated industries.

Eligibility

Applicants must hold any graduate degree to be eligible for this role.