Position Summary

Artificial Intelligence & Engineering

Join our AI & Engineering team in transforming technology platforms, driving innovation, and helping make a significant impact on our clients’ achievements. You’ll work alongside talented professionals reimagining and re-engineering operations and processes that are critical to businesses. Your contributions help Deloitte client service teams improve financial performance, accelerate new digital ventures, and fuel growth through innovation. 

Position Summary

Level: Senior Consultant or equivalent

As a Senior Consultant at Deloitte Consulting, you will design, develop, and deploy enterprise-scale software solutions, lead the creation of robust pipelines and manage code deployment across environments. You will collaborate with cross-functional, global teams to translate functional requirements into effective deliverables, independently guiding and mentoring junior team members. Your role spans the full project lifecycle, including estimation, planning, execution, and tracking key metrics for analysis, ensuring high-quality and timely delivery of solutions

Work you’ll do:

 

We are seeking a highly skilled Lead DevOps Engineer to drive and scale our infrastructure, with a primary focus on Kubernetes orchestration and cloud-native technologies. In this leadership role, you will architect, implement, and manage our containerized environments, ensuring performance, security, and reliability for critical applications and services.

Lead discussions with business and functional analysts to understand requirements and assess integration impacts on business architecture. Prepare technical architecture and design, clarify requirements, and resolve ambiguities. Develop solutions in line with established technical designs, integration standards, and quality processes. Create and enforce technical design and development guides, templates, and standards. Facilitate daily scrum meetings, manage deliverables, and prepare weekly status reports for leadership review. Conduct detailed deliverable reviews and provide technical guidance to team members. Collaborate with onsite clients, coordinators, analysts, and cross-functional teams. Design templates or scripts to automate routine development or operational tasks.

  • Lead the design, implementation, and maintenance of scalable Kubernetes-based infrastructure.
  • Architect and manage CI/CD pipelines that enable automated testing, deployment, and monitoring of microservices.
  • Define and enforce best practices for containerization, infrastructure as code (IaC), and Kubernetes operations.
  • Collaborate with development, security, and operations teams to build resilient and secure cloud-native solutions.
  • Drive improvements in observability, including logging, metrics, and alerting using tools like Prometheus, Data Dog, or similar.
  • Manage and mentor a team of DevOps engineers, ensuring technical growth and consistent delivery.
  • Own and maintain Helm charts, Kubernetes manifests, and automation scripts for multi-environment deployments.
  • Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues in cloud and containerized environments.
  • Stay up to date with industry trends, tools, and Kubernetes CNCF ecosystem advancements.

 

The team:

 

At Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure we deliver solutions spanning Hybrid Cloud, Advanced Connectivity, AI Data Centers, High-Performance Computing, and AI Infrastructure to help clients achieve their desired outcomes. Our offerings include engineered transformation services for hybrid cloud infrastructure and platforms, prioritizing resiliency, optimization, and extensive automation. We integrate advanced connectivity with AI infrastructure and enterprise networks to boost operational efficiency and enable real-time data processing. Additionally, we provide comprehensive management of all facets of operations for hybrid cloud infrastructure and field operations.

Qualifications

Must Have Skills/Project Experience/Certifications:

·       7+ years of hands-on experience

·       7+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering.

·       4+ years of hands-on Kubernetes experience in a production-grade environment (EKS, GKE, AKS, or self-managed clusters).

·       Deep knowledge of Docker, Helm, and Kubernetes components (e.g., controllers, CRDs, networking, RBAC).

·       Strong proficiency with Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, Anisble or similar).

·       Expertise in CI/CD tools like Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or GitLab CI.

·       Proficient in scripting and automation (Python, Bash, Powershell).

·       Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.

·       Familiarity with service mesh (e.g., Istio or Linkerd) and Kubernetes security best practices.

·       Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work independently and in a team.

·       Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Good to Have Skills/Project Experience/Certifications:

  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD).
  • Certified in Azure, Azure ADO, Azure Architecure, Azure DevOps, Azure security practices
  • Experience managing high-availability, multi-region clusters.
  • Background in monitoring, logging, and incident response processes.
  • Experience with GitOps tools like Argo CD or Flux.

Education:

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Location:

  • Bengaluru/Hyderabad

Shift Timings:

·       11 AM to 8 PM or 2 PM to 11 PM IST as per business requirements

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