The opportunity
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.
This is a high-impact role where you'll work at the intersection of: DevOps + SRE + Chaos Engineering + AI-driven testing Ensuring platforms are failure-ready, not just failure-resistant Job details Job Title: DevOps Engineer – Reliability & Automation Division: Quality Control & Monitoring Systems
Experience:
3–7 Years Employment Type: Full-time
Location:
Hyderabad
Education:
Bachelor’s 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)
Key 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 Strong hands-on experience with: 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 Experience with: Prometheus Grafana ELK/EFK stack Open Telemetry Programming & Automation Proficiency in: Bash / Shell Python / Go Strong scripting for automation and testing frameworks Systems Thinking Understanding of: 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 Knowledge of:
- Kubernetes security (RBAC, Network Policies)
- GitOps methodologies
- Advanced networking (CNI plugins, eBPF)
