SRE, Platform Engineer - AWS EKS For Apptad Technology _Hybrid

• Work Location  Bangalore/Hyderabad/Pune
• Work Mode (Onsite / Hybrid / Remote) – Hybrid

Senior Site Reliability Engineer / Platform Engineer – AWS EKS

Role Overview

This role owns the reliability, security, automation, and scalability of the AWS EKS platform. The Senior SRE / Platform Engineer acts as a platform owner, enabling application teams through standardized infrastructure, GitOps workflows, policy enforcement, and observability. The position requires deep hands-on expertise across Kubernetes, AWS infrastructure, security tooling, and SRE operational practices.

Primary Responsibilities

Kubernetes & EKS Platform Engineering

• Architect, deploy, and operate production-grade Kubernetes platforms on AWS EKS

• Implement EKS automation using EKS Blueprints and manage lifecycle of all EKS add-ons

• Plan and execute Kubernetes and EKS version upgrades with minimal downtime

Autoscaling & Compute Optimization

• Design and operate Karpenter-based autoscaling for stateless and stateful workloads

• Optimize cost, performance, and availability through dynamic instance provisioning

Service Mesh & Traffic Management

• Design and operate Istio service mesh (sidecar and ambient mesh models)

• Implement traffic policies including mTLS, retries, circuit breaking, and timeouts

Policy, Security & Runtime Protection

• Implement Kubernetes admission and governance using Kyverno and OPA/Gatekeeper

• Operate Falco for runtime threat detection and incident investigation

• Integrate security controls into GitOps workflows

Infrastructure as Code & Automation

• Develop reusable Terraform modules for AWS infrastructure including VPCs, EKS, and Transit Gateway

• Implement Terragrunt-based multi-account, multi-region architectures

GitOps & Platform Operations

• Design and operate self-managed Argo CD for platform, security, and add-on management

• Define Git-based promotion and access models across environments

Observability & SRE Operations

• Design and operate Prometheus-based monitoring and alerting

• Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and reliability improvements

• Reduce operational toil through automation and self-service tooling

Security & Compliance (Wiz)

• Own remediation of Wiz-reported security findings across AWS infrastructure and EKS clusters

• Partner with Security teams to implement preventive guardrails

Required Skills & Experience

• 6+ years of experience in SRE, Platform Engineering, or Cloud Infrastructure roles

• Strong hands-on expertise with Kubernetes and AWS EKS

• Deep experience with Terraform, Terragrunt, and EKS Blueprints

• Hands-on experience with Karpenter autoscaling

• Experience operating Istio service mesh

• Strong experience with Kyverno, OPA/Gatekeeper, and Falco

• Observability experience using Prometheus

• GitOps experience using Argo CD

• Strong AWS fundamentals: VPC, IAM, EC2, ALB/NLB, EBS/EFS

• Proven experience resolving Wiz security findings

Nice to Have

• Experience with Ambient Mesh

• Familiarity with SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets

• Experience in large-scale or regulated environments