Wipro Limited (NYSE: WIT, BSE: 507685, NSE: WIPRO) is a leading technology services and consulting company focused on building innovative solutions that address clients’ most complex digital transformation needs. Leveraging our holistic portfolio of capabilities in consulting, design, engineering, and operations, we help clients realize their boldest ambitions and build future-ready, sustainable businesses. With nearly 245,000 employees and business partners across 65 countries, we deliver on the promise of helping our clients, colleagues, and communities thrive in an ever-changing world. Wipro is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and makes all employment and employment-related decisions without regard to a person's race, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability, sexual orientation, or any other status protected by applicable law.
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Job Description
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of IT/Infrastructure/DevOps experience, with
5+ years in Kubernetes operations
in production environments. - Strong hands-on experience in
Kubernetes architecture
, cluster operations, and manual application deployment
practices. - Intermediate-level experience in
Kubernetes Security
, including: - Cluster hardening, secrets management
- Pod Security Standards (PSS), OPA/Gatekeeper
- Network policies, image scanning, and runtime protections
- Intermediate experience with
ArgoCD
for GitOps-style Kubernetes deployments. - Solid proficiency in
Linux system administration
(Ubuntu, CentOS, RHEL) and troubleshooting. - Hands-on experience with
Kubernetes-native storage
(e.g., Ceph, NFS) and persistent volume provisioning. - Strong familiarity with
observability tools
: Grafana
, Prometheus
, Loki
, Mimir
, etc. - Proficiency in
Infrastructure as Code
using Terraform
, Helm
, and scripting. - Experience with
Velero
, Commvault
, or similar for backup and DR. - Experience operating and optimizing
cloud-native Kubernetes platforms
like EKS
, AKS
. - Exposure to tools like
Karpenter
, MicroK8s
, Service Mesh
, and Ingress Controllers
. - Familiarity with
AI/ML workloads
running on Kubernetes is a plus. - Excellent collaboration, communication, documentation, and incident resolution skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Kubernetes certifications:
CKA
, CKAD
, or CKS
. - Strong understanding of container security, networking, and distributed system architecture.
- Experience using
Portainer
for container and Kubernetes management. - Advanced knowledge of
Grafana
and other enterprise-grade observability tools. - Experience managing
large-scale Kubernetes clusters (200+ nodes)
is highly preferred. - Prior experience supporting
production-grade, high-availability
platforms and environments.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, build, and manage
highly available Kubernetes clusters
across hybrid environments (on-premises and cloud platforms such as AWS EKS, Azure AKS). - Deploy and manage applications manually using tools such as kubectl and Helm, with growing integration of GitOps practices (e.g., ArgoCD).
- Implement and manage
observability stacks
using Prometheus
, Grafana
, Loki
, and Mimir
to monitor infrastructure, applications, and system performance. - Define, monitor, and improve
SLA/SLO/SLI
metrics and alerting systems to ensure platform reliability. - Automate provisioning and configuration of infrastructure using
Terraform
, Helm
, and scripting languages (e.g., Bash, Python). - Plan, implement, and test
backup and disaster recovery (DR)
strategies using tools like Velero
, Commvault
, etc. - Manage Kubernetes-native
networking
, storage
, and security configurations
(Ceph, NFS, Ingress, PodSecurityPolicies, etc.). - Configure and enforce Kubernetes
security best practices
using RBAC
, OPA/Gatekeeper
, NetworkPolicies
, and secrets management tools. - Integrate and operate Kubernetes ecosystem tools such as
Karpenter
, MicroK8s
, Service Meshes
, and kubectl plugins
. - Conduct
root cause analysis (RCA)
and lead resolution efforts for incidents. - Participate in the
on-call rotation
for platform availability and incident management. - Maintain up-to-date
documentation
, architecture diagrams
, runbooks
, and SOPs
. - Mentor engineers and advocate for
Kubernetes, security, observability, and deployment best practices
across teams. - Continuously stay informed of industry trends in
container orchestration
, GitOps
, security
, and cloud-native tooling
.