Senior Associate ART Engineer

Job Summary

NPCI is looking for a highly skilled DevOps Engineer specializing in automation, Kubernetes, and system reliability engineering, with a strong focus on AI-driven testing and resilience engineering. In this role, you will architect and execute automated reliability testing frameworks, simulate real-world failure scenarios, and ensure high availability, fault tolerance, and scalability of mission-critical payment systems operating at national scale.

Job Details

• Job Title: DevOps Engineer Reliability & Automation
• Division: Quality Control & Monitoring Systems
• Experience: 37 Years
• Employment Type: Full-time
• Location: Hyderabad
• Education: Bachelors degree in Computer Science / Engineering or related field
• Preferred Certifications: CKA / CKAD / Cloud DevOps (AWS/Azure/GCP)
• Work Mode: 5 Days Work From Office (WFO)

Responsibilities

DevOps & Platform Engineering

• Design, implement, and manage CI/CD pipelines for application delivery and infrastructure provisioning
• Containerize applications using Docker and orchestrate via Kubernetes
• Deploy, manage, and optimize production-grade Kubernetes clusters

Reliability & Resilience Engineering

• Design and implement automated resilience and reliability testing frameworks
• Develop and execute failure simulation strategies (node failures, latency, network partitioning, etc.)
• Build and run fault injection mechanisms for controlled chaos testing
• Identify system weaknesses and improve fault tolerance & recovery strategies

Monitoring, Observability & Incident Readiness

• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK, Open Telemetry)
• Define and track SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets
• Enhance observability for distributed systems

Infrastructure, Networking & Security

• Manage Linux systems and troubleshoot performance and reliability issues
• Configure networking components including load balancing, DNS, firewalls & VPN
• Ensure security, compliance, and best practices across infrastructure

Collaboration & Productivity

• Work closely with SRE, DevOps, QA, and development teams
• Improve developer productivity through automation and self-service platforms
• Contribute to platform reliability culture and engineering excellence

Requirements

Required Technical Skills

Core DevOps Stack

• Docker & Kubernetes (Administration + Automation)
• CI/CD tools: Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Flux

Experience in Infrastructure as Code (IaC):

• Terraform, Ansible, Helm, Pulumi

Systems & Networking Expertise

• Strong Linux administration skills (Ubuntu, CentOS, RHEL)
• Deep understanding of networking: TCP/IP, DNS, routing
• Load balancing, firewalls, VPN

Observability & Monitoring

• Prometheus
• Grafana
• ELK/EFK stack
• Open Telemetry

Programming & Automation

• Bash / Shell
• Python / Go
• Strong scripting for automation and testing frameworks

Systems Thinking

• Distributed systems behavior
• Failure modes & recovery patterns
• Storage systems (Ceph, physical storage)
• Network stack (Overlay networking)

Good to Have Skills and Experience Required

Advanced Reliability Engineering

• Exposure to Chaos Engineering frameworks (Chaos Mesh, Litmus, Gremlin)
• Understanding of SRE practices and production reliability

AI-Driven Testing

• Experience with AI-powered testing or automation tools
• Familiarity with intelligent fault detection & predictive failure analysis

Distributed Systems Expertise

• Understanding of system behavior under large-scale failures
• High-throughput, low-latency architectures

Security & Advanced Platform

• Kubernetes security (RBAC, Network Policies)
• GitOps methodologies
• Advanced networking (CNI plugins, eBPF)

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