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