TECHNICAL LEAD - AWS Cloud
happiestminds
Job Description
- Hands-on design, implementation, and operation of Kubernetes clusters (AKS, EKS, GKE) including upgrades, scaling, node pools, networking, and cluster add-ons.
- Hands-on deployment and management of containerized workloads, including Helm charts, Kustomize, operators, service mesh, ingress controllers, and autoscaling.
- Develop and maintain Terraform modules for Kubernetes clusters, cloud resources, and platform components.
- Build, optimize, and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Azure Pipelines) specifically for containerized applications and GitOps workflows.
- Implement Kubernetes-native automation such as admission controllers, policy engines, automated remediation, and cluster governance.
- Define and enforce DevOps processes for build, test, release, and production operations in a Kubernetes-first environment.
- Lead hands-on incident management and root-cause analysis for cluster failures, workload issues, networking problems, and cloud infrastructure incidents.
- Work directly with application teams to onboard workloads to Kubernetes: pod design, resource sizing, capacity planning, troubleshooting, and performance tuning.
- Manage cloud infrastructure supporting Kubernetes: VPC/VNet design, load balancers, storage classes, registries, identity, secrets, and observability stacks.
- Implement security as code across clusters: RBAC, Pod Security Standards, network policies, image scanning, compliance automation, and secret management.
- Mentor engineers through hands-on guidance, code reviews, architecture reviews, and troubleshooting sessions.
- Support data workloads, including Databricks deployments integrated with cloud and Kubernetes environments.