Deloitte—Manager | DevOps | Hyderabad | Engineering as a Service/ Operate

Job description

Description: About the Role We are looking for a highly skilled and motivated Senior DevOps Engineer to join our platform engineering team. In this role, you will be a key contributor to the design, delivery, and evolution of our cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes platforms. You are someone who thrives in ambiguity, brings a growth mindset to every challenge, and communicates clearly across engineering and business stakeholders. Key Responsibilities - Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and highly available infrastructure across multi-account, multi-region, and multi-AZ AWS environments - Lead Infrastructure as Code practices using Terraform — authoring reusable modules, managing workspaces, and enforcing standards across teams - Administer and evolve Amazon EKS clusters including upgrades, secondary networking configurations, and cluster lifecycle management - Write and maintain Helm charts including umbrella charts and integration of OSS/community charts; troubleshoot complex Helm deployment issues - Develop and maintain custom Kubernetes controllers and operators using standard tooling - Define and champion multi-cloud architecture patterns and best practices - Analyze open-ended infrastructure and platform problems, propose well-reasoned solutions, and drive them to completion with minimal supervision - Collaborate closely with development, security, and architecture teams — communicating complex technical concepts clearly to diverse audiences - Mentor junior engineers and contribute to a culture of continuous learning and improvement Required Skills & Experience Core Competencies - Strong communication skills — written and verbal — with the ability to present technical proposals to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders - Proven ability to analyze ambiguous, open-ended problems and independently propose and deliver pragmatic solutions - Strong problem-solving mindset with a structured, methodical approach to debugging and root-cause analysis - Demonstrated growth mindset — actively learns from incidents, seeks feedback, and keeps up with evolving industry practices Terraform - hands-on experience writing production-grade Terraform configurations and reusable modules - experience with Terraform workspaces for environment and account segregation - experience using Terraform providers to provision and manage AWS resources across multi-account, multi-region, and multi-AZ topologies - experience provisioning and managing EKS clusters, VPC networking, and related AWS services via HashiCorp Terraform modules - experience configuring EKS secondary networking (e.g., VPC CNI custom networking) via Terraform - Good understanding of multi-cloud infrastructure architecture and portability considerations Kubernetes & EKS - hands-on experience in Amazon EKS administration — cluster provisioning, IAM integration, node group management, and day-2 operations - experience as a Kubernetes practitioner — workload management, RBAC, networking, storage, autoscaling, and observability - understanding of Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs) and consumption of OSS Helm charts and Kubernetes operators - experience managing and executing EKS cluster version upgrades with minimal disruption - Hands-on experience writing custom controllers and operators using frameworks such as controller-runtime or Kubebuilder - hands-on experience with AWS Load Balancer Controller — ingress and service configuration on EKS - hands-on experience with Kubernetes Gateway API — HTTPRoute, GatewayClass, and migration from Ingress Helm - experience authoring Helm charts for complex, production workloads - experience building and managing umbrella charts for multi-component application deployments - understanding of CRDs and OSS Helm charts — including evaluation, customisation, and maintenance - experience troubleshooting Helm release failures, hook issues, and chart rendering problems Istio - hands-on experience deploying and operating Istio in production Kubernetes environments - experience with both Istio Sidecar (proxy) and Ambient mesh deployment modes - understanding of Istio core concepts and traffic management — VirtualService, DestinationRule, Gateway, AuthorizationPolicy, mTLS, and observability integration AWS - hands-on experience designing and operating multi-region, multi-AZ AWS architectures - Deep working knowledge across core AWS services, including: - EKS — cluster administration, networking, and integrations - VPC — subnets, route tables, security groups, VPC peering, Transit Gateway - EC2 — instance types, launch templates, Auto Scaling Groups - S3 — bucket policies, lifecycle rules, replication - AWS API Gateway - Networking — NAT, IGW, PrivateLink, VPN, Direct Connect concepts - ACM (AWS Certificate Manager) — certificate provisioning, renewal, and integration with AWS services - PCA (AWS Private Certificate Authority) — private CA management for internal TLS - Route 53 — DNS management, health checks, routing policies - Strong understanding of TLS — certificate chains, mTLS, termination strategies, and PKI fundamentals Nice to Have - Experience with GitOps tooling (e.g., ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, Cloudbees Jenkins) - Familiarity with observability stacks (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry) - Experience with CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Atlantis) - Exposure to service mesh technologies (e.g., Istio, Linkerd) What We Value - Engineers who own problems end-to-end rather than passing tickets - A culture of blameless post-mortems and continuous improvement - Clear, concise documentation and knowledge sharing across the team - Healthy engineering debate and peer review culture