Summary
Position Summary
#DFO&I2027
Customer
The Customer Team empowers organizations to build deeper relationships with customers through innovative strategies, advanced analytics, GenAI, transformative technologies, and creative design. We enable Deloitte client service teams to enhance customer experience and drive sustained growth and customer value creation and capture, through customer and commercial strategies, digital product and innovation, marketing, commerce, sales, and service. We are a team of strategists, data scientists, operators, creatives, designers, engineers, and architects, balancing business strategy, technology, creativity, and ongoing managed services to help solve the biggest problems that impact customers, partners, constituents, and the workforce. We also offer Business Process as a Service, enabling organizations to streamline operations and achieve greater efficiency through scalable, technology-enabled managed insights that guide ongoing transformation and operational excellence.
Position Summary
Level: Consultant, Managed Services
As an experienced Consultant at Deloitte Consulting, you will be responsible for individually delivering high quality work products within due timelines. Need-basis you will be mentoring and/or directing junior team members/liaising with onsite/offshore teams to understand the functional requirements.
Work you'll do:
- Design and operate GKE clusters (Standard and Autopilot) supporting multi-tenant client workloads.
- Implement workload isolation, namespace strategies, network policies, and quota / priority class governance.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (Cloud Build, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI) and GitOps flows (ArgoCD, Flux).
- Develop and maintain Helm charts, Kustomize overlays, and Terraform infrastructure-as-code.
- Configure GKE networking: VPC-native clusters, private clusters, ingress/egress controls, Cloud Load Balancing, Anthos Service Mesh or Istio.
- Implement security best practices: Workload Identity, Binary Authorization, Policy Controller, secret management (Cloud KMS, Secret Manager, External Secrets), CIS benchmarks.
- Stand up observability: Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, Cloud Trace, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana.
- Drive FinOps on GKE — right-sizing, Autopilot vs Standard trade-offs, spot/preemptible workloads, Kubecost or native cost reporting.
- Participate in on-call rotation, incident response, RCA, and capacity planning.
The Team:
Our Digital Foundry Operate & Innovations (DFO&I) team partners with organizations to rapidly design, build, and scale digital products and experiences that drive business growth and elevate customer engagement. As a multidisciplinary group of strategists, designers, engineers, and operations specialists, we deliver end-to-end solutions - from initial concept and agile development to ongoing digital operations - enabling clients to experiment, iterate, and scale digital initiatives with confidence and agility. We support clients across domains such as strategy, commerce, marketing, sales, and service, helping them realize their digital ambitions through flexible, scalable teams. Our expertise spans the full digital lifecycle, including customer research, experience design, platform development, content production, and marketing automation. By bridging the gap between strategy and execution, we empower organizations to achieve measurable outcomes and deliver exceptional customer experiences in an ever-evolving digital landscape.
Qualifications
Must Have Skills / Project Experience / Certifications:
- 3 - 6 years of hands-on experience.
- 4+ years operating Kubernetes in production; 2+ years specifically on GKE.
- Strong Linux, container, and networking fundamentals (Docker, OCI, CNI).
- Production experience with Terraform and Helm; proficiency in Go, Python, or Bash.
- Hands-on with GitOps tooling — ArgoCD or Flux.
- Solid grasp of GCP IAM, Workload Identity, Cloud KMS, VPC networking.
- CI/CD pipelines and progressive delivery patterns (canary, blue/green, feature flags).
- Observability stacks: Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Cloud Operations suite.
- GCP Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer, CKA, or CKAD certification preferred.
Good to have Skills / Project Experience / Certifications:
- Anthos / Anthos Service Mesh experience.
- Service mesh fluency: Istio, Cilium, Linkerd.
- FinOps on Kubernetes (Kubecost, GKE cost allocation, sustained-use and committed-use discounts).
- Experience running ML / AI workloads on GKE (training, model serving, GPU / TPU node pools, KServe, Ray).
- Multi-cloud or hybrid Kubernetes exposure.
- Prior Operate / managed services delivery experience
Education:
- BE/B.Tech/M.C.A./M.Sc (CS) degree or equivalent from accredited university
Location:
- Bengaluru/Hyderabad/Pune/Chennai
Our purpose
Deloitte's purpose is to make an impact that matters for our people, clients, and communities. At Deloitte, purpose is synonymous with how we work every day. It defines who we are. Our purpose comes through in our work with clients that enables impact and value in their organizations, as well as through our own investments, commitments, and actions across areas that help drive positive outcomes for our communities.
Our people and culture
Our inclusive culture empowers our people to be who they are, contribute their unique perspectives, and make a difference individually and collectively. It enables us to leverage different ways of thinking, ideas and perspectives, and bring more creativity and innovation to help solve our clients most complex challenges. This makes Deloitte one of the most rewarding places to work.
Professional development
At Deloitte, professionals have the opportunity to work with some of the best and discover what works best for them. Here, we prioritize professional growth, offering diverse learning and networking opportunities to help accelerate careers and enhance leadership skills. Our state-of-the-art DU: The Leadership Center in India, located in Hyderabad, represents a tangible symbol of our commitment to the holistic growth and development of our people. Explore DU: The Leadership Center in India .
Benefits To Help You Thrive
At Deloitte, we know that great people make a great organization. Our comprehensive rewards program helps us deliver a distinctly Deloitte experience that helps that empowers our professionals to thrive mentally, physically, and financially—and live their purpose. To support our professionals and their loved ones, we offer a broad range of benefits. Eligibility requirements may be based on role, tenure, type of employment and/ or other criteria. Learn more about what working at Deloitte can mean for you.
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