DevOps Engineer
Posted 17 Jul 2026
Advertised as “Senior DevOps Engineer - Compute Platforms | India”
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- Expected experience
- 6+ yrs
- Management level
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Hybrid
No salary listed for this role.
Field of studyComputer Science
Study levelBachelor's
CertificationsITIL Foundation, Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS)
Field of studyComputer Science, Engineering, Information Technology (or related)
Study levelMaster's
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About the Role
We are seeking a highly experienced Sr DevOps Engineer – Compute Platforms with strong operational expertise in enterprise compute platforms to implement, and support Kubernetes on baremetal and hypervisor platforms in a private cloud environment. This role focuses on the deployment, automation, support, and continuous improvement of large-scale compute environments spanning bare metal infrastructure, virtualization, private cloud, and Kubernetes platforms using Infrastructure-as-Code and GitOps practices.
This is a deeply technical role requiring expert-level understanding of compute hardware management, Kubernetes, OpenStack, hypervisors and extensive working knowledge on Linux Operating systems. You will also collaborate with platform and SRE teams to maintain secure, performant, and multi-tenant-isolated services that serve high-throughput, mission-critical applications.
Key Responsibilities
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Operate and support enterprise compute platforms across hardware, OS, virtualization, and container orchestration layers
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Develop and improve automation for provisioning, patching, upgrades, validation, and routine platform work using tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Helm, Git, Bash, Python, or similar technologies
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Deploy and Support Ubuntu-based systems, hypervisors, Kubernetes clusters, and related platform services in day-to-day operations
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Implement and maintain PXE-based provisioning environments leveraging Redfish APIs for large-scale server deployments
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Operate and support virtualization and private cloud platforms, including KVM on Ubuntu, OpenStack environments and Harvester HCI
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Monitor system performance, capacity, and availability; proactively address reliability risks
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Troubleshoot complex cross-stack issues spanning hardware, OS, virtualization, OpenStack, and Kubernetes
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Manage to SLAs, KPIs and error budgets