DevOPS with Rafay

Job Description

• Manage and operate Kubernetes environments using Rafay, including multi-cluster lifecycle management, access controls, governance, namespaces, policies, and application deployments.
• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins.
• Automate infrastructure, deployment, operational, and integration tasks using Python.
• Deploy and operate cloud-native applications on AWS, primarily in Amazon EKS environments.
• Configure and support Istio service mesh capabilities, including traffic management, ingress, mTLS authorization policies, observability, and resilience patterns.
• Implement secure, repeatable deployment processes across development, test, staging, and production environments.
• Collaborate with application, QA, security, platform, and cloud infrastructure teams to improve release quality and delivery velocity.
• Troubleshoot Kubernetes, container, AWS networking, CI/CD, and production deployment issues.
• Establish and enforce operational standards for availability, security, monitoring, logging, alerting, and incident response.
• Document platform configurations, deployment processes, runbooks, and best practices.

• 12+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, Cloud Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Hands-on experience with Rafay for Kubernetes platform or multi-cluster operations.
• Candidates with strong production experience in Rancher, OpenShift, Tanzu, or comparable Kubernetes management platforms may be considered where Rafay experience is limited.
• Strong AWS experience, including practical knowledge of:
• Amazon EKS - EC2 - IAM - VPC, subnets, routing, security groups, and load balancers, - S3, - CloudWatch,
• Route53, - Secrets and encryption services
• Strong Kubernetes expertise, including:
• Cluster and workload operations
• Helm and manifest-based deployments
• RBAC and service accounts
• Namespaces, resource quotas, and network policies
• Ingress, services, DNS, and container networking
• Troubleshooting pods, deployments, nodes, and cluster-level issues
• Experience developing and maintaining Jenkins-based CI/CD pipelines.
• Proficiency in Python for scripting, APl integrations, automation, and operational tooling.
• Hands-on experience with Istio or a comparable service-mesh technology.
• Experience with Docker, Git, container registries, and Linux administration.
• Strong understanding of cloud and Kubernetes security practices, including secrets management, IAM, least-privilege access, vulnerability remediation, and policy enforcement.

• Experience with Spinnaker for deployment orchestration or continuous delivery.
• Experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, or other Infrastructure-as-Code tools.
• Experience with GitOes tools such as Argo CD or Flux.
• Experience with observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenSearch/ELK, Datadog, Splunk, or CloudWatch.
• AWS, Kubernetes, or cloud-native certifications.
• Experience supporting regulated, enterprise-scale, or multi-tenant Kubernetes environments.