Senior Executive_ AWS Microservices & EKS Support Engineer - Pune
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 19, 2026. First seen by Alion on Sep 23, 2026. Vodafone Group scores C on the Alion truth index.
Who we are
VOIS (Vodafone Intelligent Solutions) is a strategic arm of Vodafone Group Plc, creating value for customers by delivering intelligent solutions through Talent, Technology & Transformation.
As the largest shared services organisation in the global telco industry with 30,000 FTE, our portfolio of next-generation solutions and services are designed in partnership with customers across Vodafone Group, local markets, and partner markets to simplify and drive growth. With our strategic partner Accenture, we work alongside our Vodafone customers, other Telco and tech companies to drive transformation, meet the challenges of our industry and ensure we stay relevant and resilient. This partnership is a unique, industry-first model which brings together the best of in-house and 3rd party capability.
We work with customers across 28 countries from 10 VOIS locations: Albania, Egypt, Hungary, India, Romania, Spain, Turkey, UK, Germany, Ireland, and with a network of teams in Czech Republic, Italy, Greece, and Portugal.
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About this Role
We are seeking an AWS Microservices & EKS Support Engineer to provide Level 2 operational support for AWS-hosted microservices and REST APIs running on Amazon EKS/Kubernetes platforms. This role is focused on ensuring service availability, operational excellence, incident resolution, observability, automation, and continual improvement across cloud-native environments. The successful candidate will work closely with cross-functional teams to maintain platform stability, achieve SLA/KPI commitments, and contribute to AI-enabled operational enhancements. This opportunity is suited to professionals with 1-3 years of experience in IT Operations, Cloud Support, Application Operations, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering environments.
What you will do
- Monitor and support AWS-hosted microservices and REST API services in production environments.
- Troubleshoot issues across application, API, container, network, DNS, authentication, and access-management layers.
- Investigate and resolve incidents, service requests, and operational issues within agreed service levels.
- Support P1/P2 major incident recovery activities and provide technical updates to stakeholders.
- Perform problem analysis, contribute to root cause analysis (RCA), and track corrective actions.
- Monitor AWS services including VPC, Route 53, WAF, IAM, Load Balancers, CloudWatch, ECR, and Secrets Manager.
- Support Amazon EKS/Kubernetes environments, including Pods, Deployments, Services, Ingress, ConfigMaps, Secrets, Namespaces, and Autoscaling.
- Analyse logs, metrics, traces, events, and workload history to diagnose service issues.
- Execute approved recovery actions, scaling activities, rollbacks, and service-restoration procedures.
- Maintain operational dashboards, alerts, health checks, and synthetic monitoring capabilities.
- Automate repetitive operational activities using Shell scripting, Python, AWS-native services, and workflow runbooks.
- Contribute to responsible AI/AIOps initiatives including event correlation, anomaly detection, incident summarisation, and guided remediation.
- Participate in service reviews, operational governance meetings, and continual service-improvement initiatives.
- Maintain documentation, operational runbooks, escalation procedures, and audit evidence.
- Collaborate with platform, network, security, database, and vendor teams to ensure service continuity and reliability.
Who you are
- 1-3 years of experience in IT Operations, Cloud Support, Application Operations, Production Support, DevOps, or SRE environments.
- Knowledge of AWS services and cloud-native application support.
- Exposure to microservices architectures, REST APIs, HTTP protocols, JSON, authentication, TLS, latency management, retries, and timeout handling.
- Working knowledge of Amazon EKS/Kubernetes, including Pods, Deployments, Services, Ingress, ConfigMaps, Secrets, and Horizontal Pod Autoscaling.
- Familiarity with AWS technologies including VPC, Route 53, WAF, IAM, Load Balancers, CloudWatch, ECR, and Secrets Manager.
- Understanding of Linux/Unix administration, command-line operations, and log analysis.
- Experience with Shell scripting, Python, or automation tooling.
- Knowledge of observability concepts including logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, alerts, and synthetic monitoring.
- Familiarity with ITIL processes such as Incident, Problem, Change, and Service Request Management.
- Exposure to CI/CD, GitOps, Helm, Terraform, CloudFormation, Argo CD, or related technologies is advantageous.
- Understanding of operational risk management, business continuity, disaster recovery, and audit compliance.
- Strong analytical thinking, problem-solving, communication, documentation, and collaboration skills.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience. AWS and ITIL certifications are desirable.
Not a Perfect Fit?
Concerned you may not meet every requirement? Vodafone is committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive. If you are excited about this role but your experience does not align exactly with every aspect of the job description, you are encouraged to apply. You may be the right candidate for this or another opportunity, and the recruitment team will support you in exploring where your skills fit best.
What’s in it for you
- Opportunity to work on large-scale AWS cloud platforms and modern microservices architectures.
- Hands-on experience supporting enterprise-grade Kubernetes and Amazon EKS environments.
- Exposure to advanced observability, monitoring, automation, and SRE practices.
- Opportunity to contribute to AI-enabled operations and digital transformation initiatives.
- Cross-functional collaboration with global cloud, platform, network, security, and operations teams.
- Continuous learning opportunities within a fast-evolving cloud operations environment.
What skills you will learn
- Advanced AWS cloud operations and troubleshooting techniques.
- Amazon EKS and Kubernetes administration and support practices.
- Cloud-native application and microservices operations.
- Observability, monitoring, service health management, and incident analytics.
- Automation using Shell, Python, AWS-native services, and operational workflows.
- AIOps and responsible AI applications in production support environments.
- Incident management, problem management, root cause analysis, and SLA governance.
- Enterprise-scale operational governance, audit readiness, and risk-management practices.
VOIS Equal Opportunity Employer Commitment
Vodafone recognises and celebrates the value of diversity in building a workforce that reflects the customers and communities it serves. No form of discrimination is tolerated. This includes, but is not limited to, discrimination based on race, colour, age, veteran status, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, pregnancy, maternity or parental status, ethnicity, disability, religion or belief, political affiliation, trade union membership, nationality, citizenship, indigenous status, medical condition, HIV status, neurodiversity, social origin, cultural background, marital or civil partnership status, or socio-economic background.
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At Vodafone, we’re working hard to build a better future. A more connected, inclusive and sustainable world. As a dynamic global community, it's our human spirit, together with technology, that empowers us to achieve this.
We challenge and innovate in order to connect people, businesses, and communities across the world. Delighting our customers and earning their loyalty drive us, and we experiment, learn fast and get it done, together.
With us, you can be truly be yourself and belong, share inspiration, embrace new opportunities, thrive, and make a real difference.
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