Lead Kubernetes Engineer

HCLSoftware

📍 karnataka, bengaluru, India

Full-time IT / Computing / Software Posted June 04, 2026

Job Description

THE ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES We are looking for a seasoned Lead Kubernetes Engineer to own and evolve our cloud-native infrastructure strategy. You will serve as the technical anchor for Kubernetes platform engineering and multi-cloud container operations across GKE, AKS, and Amazon EKS. This is a high-impact role that bridges engineering excellence with organizational influence REQUIREMENTS & QUALIFICATIONS Must-Have - 8 years in Platform/SRE engineering Kubernetes Platform Engineering - Lead the design and day-2 operations of production Kubernetes clusters across GKE, AKS, and Amazon EKS. - Define and enforce cluster hardening standards: RBAC policies, PodSecurity standards, network policies, and admission controllers. - Own Helm chart library: author, version, test, and publish charts; govern values schema and upgrade strategies. - Implement AI workflows using ArgoCD or Flux for declarative cluster state management. - Manage cluster autoscaling, node pool strategies, resource quotas,...