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Senior Technical Specialist

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Seeking a Senior Technical Specialist in Hyderabad, India. This role focuses on defining cloud architecture, platform strategy, and implementing solutions using technologies like Kubernetes, Istio, Kafka, and AlloyDB. Responsibilities include ensuring scalable, secure, and resilient environments with a strong emphasis on SRE principles.

Responsibilities

  • Define architecture vision, target-state design, technology roadmap, and alignment with business objectives.
  • Ensure secure, scalable, resilient cloud environments and infrastructure patterns.
  • Manage cluster architecture, scalability, multi-region deployment, networking, security, and governance for Kubernetes (GKE).
  • Implement service-to-service communication, traffic management, security, observability, and resilience patterns using Istio Service Mesh & Microservices Architecture.
  • Develop event design patterns, integration, scalability, disaster recovery, and performance optimization for Kafka Event Streaming & Event-Driven Architecture.
  • Design for fault tolerance, scalability, disaster recovery, business continuity, and reliability patterns in Distributed Systems, High Availability & Resilience Design.
  • Architect High Availability database architecture, replication, backups, performance optimization, and recovery strategies for the AlloyDB Platform.
  • Implement API-first design, synchronous/asynchronous integrations, and enterprise connectivity patterns.
  • Establish architecture standards, governance processes, strategic planning, and technology adoption decisions.
  • Influence engineering teams, business stakeholders, and strategic suppliers.
  • Implement logging, monitoring, tracing, operational visibility, and performance analysis.
  • Define and manage SLOs/SLIs, incident management, capacity planning, and reliability engineering practices.
  • Develop resilience frameworks, risk management, recovery capabilities, and regulatory considerations.

Requirements

  • Cloud Architecture (any cloud) & Platform Strategy (Mandatory)
  • Kubernetes (GKE) - Cluster architecture, scalability, multi-region deployment, networking, security, and governance (Mandatory)
  • Istio Service Mesh & Microservices Architecture - Service-to-service communication, traffic management, security, observability, and resilience patterns (Mandatory)
  • Kafka Event Streaming & Event-Driven Architecture - Event design patterns, integration, scalability, disaster recovery, and performance optimization (Mandatory)
  • Distributed Systems, High Availability & Resilience Design - Fault tolerance, scalability, disaster recovery, business continuity, and reliability patterns (Mandatory)
  • Database Architecture & AlloyDB Platform Design - High Availability database architecture, replication, backups, performance optimization, and recovery strategies (Mandatory)
  • API, Integration & Enterprise Connectivity Architecture - API-first design, synchronous/asynchronous integrations, and enterprise connectivity patterns (Mandatory)
  • SRE Governance - Architecture standards, governance processes, strategic planning, and technology adoption decisions (Mandatory)

Desired Qualifications

  • Thought Machine Vault Platform Architecture (Preferred)
  • Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) & Operational Excellence - Logging, monitoring, tracing, operational visibility, and performance analysis; SLOs/SLIs, incident management, capacity planning, reliability engineering practices; Resilience frameworks, risk management, recovery capabilities, and regulatory considerations (Preferred)

Benefits

  • Supercharge your potential.
  • Find your career.
  • Find your spark.
  • A place that knows that helping its customers stay on top starts by putting its people first.
#cloud#architecture#devops#kubernetes#microservices#event-driven#distributed systems#database#api#sre#site reliability engineering
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Company

HCLTech

Job Posted

1 day ago

Employment Type

Full Time

WorkMode

On Site

Experience Level

Senior

Locations

Hyderabad, India

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