Staff Software Engineer I - Kubernetes,ArgoCD

Location: Bangalore

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

Overview

• We are seeking a highly skilled Staff Software Engineer with deep expertise in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Cloud Platforms, Kubernetes, and GitOps practices. This role will architect, scale, and operate enterprise-grade Kubernetes platforms while driving reliability, scalability, automation, and operational excellence across critical enterprise applications and infrastructure.
• The ideal candidate will provide technical leadership on Kubernetes platform strategy, influence engineering best practices, and partner with cross-functional teams to build resilient, secure, and highly available cloud-native platforms at scale. This position requires deep hands-on experience with Kubernetes architecture, ArgoCD, GitOps methodologies, Infrastructure Automation, and Production Engineering.

What You'll Do

DevOps & Platform Engineering

• Design, build, and optimize scalable CI/CD pipelines and Kubernetes-native platform solutions.
• Drive Infrastructure as Code (IaC), automation, and platform standardization initiatives.
• Improve developer experience through self-service infrastructure and deployment automation.
• Lead architecture discussions and establish Kubernetes and DevOps platform standards across engineering teams.

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)

• Define and champion reliability standards, SLAs, SLOs, and operational excellence frameworks.
• Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and reliability improvement programs.
• Drive performance optimization, scalability enhancements, capacity planning, and disaster recovery strategies.
• Build proactive monitoring, observability, and alerting capabilities to improve system health and availability.

GitOps & Automation

• Architect and manage GitOps practices using ArgoCD for multi-cluster Kubernetes application delivery.
• Automate application deployment, configuration management, and environment provisioning.
• Establish deployment governance, release management processes, and operational controls.
• Ensure secure, consistent, and auditable deployments across all environments.

Kubernetes & Cloud Infrastructure

• Define and evolve enterprise Kubernetes platform architecture, standards, and multi-cluster/multi-region deployment strategies.
• Design, deploy, and operate production Kubernetes clusters at scale across cloud environments (EKS, AKS, GKE, or equivalent).
• Build and optimize containerized platform solutions using Docker and Kubernetes for high availability and performance.
• Lead adoption of Kubernetes-native tooling including Helm, Kustomize, operators, and service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd, or equivalent).
• Drive cluster lifecycle management including upgrades, autoscaling, capacity planning, disaster recovery, and cost optimization.
• Architect Kubernetes networking, ingress, storage (CSI), CNI, and workload isolation patterns for complex enterprise workloads.
• Establish Kubernetes security frameworks including RBAC, network policies, pod security standards, secrets management, and DevSecOps integration.
• Drive Infrastructure as Code adoption using Terraform or equivalent technologies for cloud and Kubernetes infrastructure.
• Partner with Security and Engineering teams to implement platform governance, compliance, and operational controls.

Technical Leadership & Collaboration

• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers across DevOps and platform teams.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Product, Infrastructure, and Security stakeholders to drive strategic initiatives.
• Participate in architecture reviews and technology roadmap discussions.
• Work closely with global teams across EMEA and US regions.
• Demonstrate flexibility to work across overlapping business hours and shifts when required to support global stakeholders and critical production environments.

What We Are Looking For

• 12+ years of experience in Software Engineering, DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).
• Strong hands-on expertise in DevOps, SRE, CI/CD, Infrastructure Automation, and Cloud Engineering.
• Proven experience implementing GitOps practices using ArgoCD.
• Deep expertise in Kubernetes platform architecture, cluster operations, and troubleshooting at enterprise scale, including Docker, Microservices, and Cloud Platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Proven experience architecting, deploying, and operating large-scale production Kubernetes platforms in enterprise environments.
• Expert-level hands-on experience with Kubernetes tooling such as Helm, Kustomize, kubectl, cluster APIs, and platform engineering frameworks.
• Experience leading Kubernetes migration, modernization, and cloud-native transformation initiatives across multiple teams.
• Strong understanding of Kubernetes internals, container orchestration patterns, and cloud-native architecture at scale.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or equivalent).
• Strong understanding of observability, monitoring, alerting, logging, and production operations.
• Experience with monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Splunk, ELK, New Relic, or similar platforms.
• Strong troubleshooting, incident management, root cause analysis, and production support experience.
• Experience developing automation and operational tooling using Python, Shell, Go, or similar technologies.
• Strong understanding of security, compliance, and reliability engineering principles.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and technical leadership skills.
• Experience working with globally distributed teams across EMEA and US regions.
• Ability to drive technical decisions, define Kubernetes platform roadmaps, influence engineering practices, and lead large-scale platform initiatives.
• Flexibility to collaborate with global stakeholders across multiple time zones and support business-critical operations when needed.

Our Values

If you want to know the heart of a company, take a look at their values. Ours unite us. They are what drive our success – and the success of our customers. Does your heart beat like ours? Find out here: Core Values

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.