Lead Associate | Kubernetes | Hyderabad | Engineering as a Service/ Operate

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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

Your role as a Lead Senior Associate

We expect our people to embrace and live our purpose by challenging themselves to identify issues that are most important for our clients, our people, and for society.

In addition to living our purpose, Senior Executive across our organization must strive to be:

Inspiring - Leading with integrity to build inclusion and motivation.

Committed to creating purpose - Creating a sense of vision and purpose.

Agile - Achieving high-quality results through collaboration and Team unity.

Skilled at building diverse capability - Developing diverse capabilities for the future.

Persuasive / Influencing - Persuading and influencing stakeholders.

Collaborating - Partnering to build new solutions.

Delivering value - Showing commercial acumen

Committed to expanding business - Leveraging new business opportunities.

Analytical Acumen - Leveraging data to recommend impactful approach and solutions through the power of analysis and visualization.

Effective communication – Must be well abled to have well-structured and well-articulated conversations to achieve win-win possibilities.

Tech Savvy - Leveraging ethical technology practices to deliver high impact for clients and for Deloitte.

Engagement Management / Delivery Excellence - Effectively managing engagement(s) to ensure timely and proactive execution as well as course correction for the success of engagement(s)

Managing change - Responding to changing environment with resilience.

Empathetic leadership and inclusivity - creating a safe and thriving environment where everyone's valued for who they are, use empathy to understand others to adapt our behaviors and attitudes to become more inclusive.