Role Description: Sr. Kubernetes ISTIO Engineer
- Design, deploy, and operate Kubernetes platforms on AWS EKS and Oracle OKE, ensuring scalability, resilience, security, and operational excellence.
- Architect and manage Istio service mesh across multi‑cluster and multi‑cloud environments for secure, reliable service communication.
- Implement advanced traffic management patterns including canary, blue/green, traffic splitting, circuit breaking, and fault injection.
- Optimize cluster performance through autoscaling, node pool management, workload scheduling, and resource efficiency.
- Enforce mTLS, zero‑trust networking, and policy‑based security controls across Kubernetes and Istio.
- Manage Istio ingress/egress gateways, Envoy proxy configurations, and external traffic integrations.
- Build and operate observability platforms using Prometheus, Grafana, Kiali, Jaeger/Zipkin, CloudWatch, and OCI Monitoring.
- Troubleshoot Kubernetes and service‑mesh issues, including latency, routing failures, and sidecar performance.
- Automate infrastructure and mesh lifecycle using Terraform, Helm, GitOps (ArgoCD/Flux), and CI/CD pipelines.
- Define and drive SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets to improve reliability and service quality.
- Integrate Kubernetes and Istio with cloud networking components such as VPCs, subnets, and load balancers.
- Enable platform self‑service, mentor teams, and promote platform engineering best practices.
As a prospective candidate, you should possess:
- Hands‑on experience in Kubernetes platform engineering with production use of Istio and Envoy.
- Strong knowledge of AWS EKS and Oracle OKE, including cluster architecture, operations, and scaling.
- Proficiency with Terraform, Helm, and GitOps tools (ArgoCD/Flux).
- Solid understanding of cloud networking, including VPCs, CNIs, ingress/egress, load balancers, and network policies.
- Experience implementing mTLS, zero‑trust networking, and identity integrations (OIDC, OAuth2, SPIFFE/SPIRE).
- Hands‑on experience with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Kiali, Jaeger/Zipkin, CloudWatch, or OCI Monitoring.
- Strong scripting skills in Python, Bash, or Go for platform automation.
- Experience integrating Kubernetes and Istio with CI/CD and DevOps practices.
- Exposure to multi‑cluster/multi‑cloud environments and container security tools is a plus.
- Self‑driven with the ability to handle ambiguity, escalations, and clear stakeholder communication.
Desired qualifications
- Bachelors in computer science or related field or equivalent work experience.
- Certifications such as:
- CKA / CKAD / CKS
- AWS Solutions Architect / DevOps Engineer
- OCI Architect
- Business Experience: 7-9 Years of experience.
Location and way of working.
Base location: Hyderabad
