{"id":1153364,"url":"https://alion.io/job/vodafone-group-senior-manager-aws-microservices-eks-operations-specialist-pune","title":"Senior Manager_ AWS Microservices & EKS Operations Specialist _Pune","company":{"id":51587,"name":"Vodafone Group","domain":"vodafone.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/vodafone-group","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"is_intermediary":false,"ats_vendor":"Eightfold","truth_index":{"grade":"C","score":58,"open_postings":691,"ghost_share":0.462,"stale_share":0.182,"repost_share":0.667,"time_to_fill_p50_days":57,"computed_at":"2026-09-24T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"DevOps","role_family":"DevOps","seniority":"senior","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Pune, India"],"countries":["IN"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":26000,"max_usd":57000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_cell","sample_n":8},"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Amazon CloudWatch","optional":false},{"name":"Amazon EKS","optional":false},{"name":"ArgoCD","optional":false},{"name":"AWS","optional":false},{"name":"AWS WAF","optional":false},{"name":"CloudFormation","optional":false},{"name":"DNS","optional":false},{"name":"GitOps","optional":false},{"name":"Helm","optional":false},{"name":"IAM","optional":false},{"name":"ITIL","optional":false},{"name":"Kubernetes","optional":false},{"name":"Linux","optional":false},{"name":"Rest API","optional":false},{"name":"Terraform","optional":false},{"name":"Unix","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-23T08:29:43Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-23","last_verified_at":"2026-09-24T11:24:53Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":1,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":1},"description":"Who we are\nVOIS (Vodafone Intelligent Solutions) is a strategic arm of Vodafone Group Plc, creating value for customers by delivering intelligent solutions through Talent, Technology & Transformation.\nAs 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.\nWe 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.\n#VOIS #BeUnrivalled #CreateTheFuture\nAbout this Role\nWe are seeking an experienced AWS Microservices and EKS Operations Specialist to take end-to-end ownership of the operational health, availability, performance, resilience and security of AWS-hosted microservices and REST API services running on Amazon EKS/Kubernetes. This role is suited to an individual with extensive production support experience, strong cloud operations expertise, and a passion for service reliability, automation and continual improvement. The position plays a critical role in incident recovery, service stabilisation, problem management, observability and operational excellence across business-critical digital services.\nWhat you will do\nOwn the operational health, availability, performance, resilience and supportability of AWS-hosted microservices and REST API services. \nServe as the senior technical specialist for complex application, API, container, networking, DNS and security incidents. \nLead P1/P2 incident recovery activities, coordinate cross-functional troubleshooting and communicate business impact effectively to stakeholders. \nDrive root cause analysis, corrective actions, known error management and the elimination of recurring incidents. \nTroubleshoot AWS networking components including VPCs, subnets, route tables, security groups, network ACLs, load balancers and connectivity paths. \nInvestigate and resolve Route 53 DNS issues, health checks and routing policy challenges. \nSupport AWS WAF operations, rule tuning, access log analysis and implementation of approved security changes. \nMonitor and troubleshoot Amazon EKS/Kubernetes clusters, nodes, pods, deployments, services, ingress configurations and autoscaling behaviours. \nAnalyse logs, metrics, traces and API transaction data to identify and resolve service issues across distributed systems. \nDevelop dashboards, alerts, runbooks and automation solutions to improve operational efficiency and reduce manual effort. \nCollaborate with application, DevOps, cloud platform, network, security, database and vendor teams to ensure service continuity and excellence. Mentor team members, promote knowledge sharing and support capability development across operational teams. \nWho you are\nYou bring 10+ years of IT operations or application support experience with responsibility for business-critical production services. \nYou have proven experience supporting AWS-hosted microservices and REST API services in production environments. \nYou possess strong operational knowledge of AWS, including hands-on troubleshooting of VPC, Route 53 and WAF services. \nYou have practical experience managing Amazon EKS/Kubernetes workloads in production. \nYou can diagnose API failures using logs, traces, status codes, authentication flows, network analysis and dependency mapping. \nYou have experience leading major incidents, service recovery, operational readiness activities and service stabilisation initiatives.\nYou demonstrate strong analytical thinking, stakeholder management, communication and technical leadership skills. \nYou have experience with Linux/Unix environments, shell scripting, observability platforms and modern monitoring practices. \nExposure to CloudWatch, CloudTrail, IAM, ECR, ELB, Auto Scaling, Secrets Manager, Helm, Argo CD, GitOps, Terraform or CloudFormation would be advantageous.\nA Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience is required. AWS and ITIL certifications are desirable. \nWhat’s in it for you\nOpportunity to work on large-scale cloud-native platforms supporting business-critical digital services. \nExposure to advanced AWS technologies, Kubernetes operations and modern Site Reliability Engineering practices. \nInvolvement in automation, observability and AI-driven operational optimisation initiatives. \nCollaboration with global technology teams across cloud, security, networking, DevOps and service management domains.\nOpportunity to contribute to reliability improvements, operational excellence and strategic service transformation. \nWhat skills you will learn\nAdvanced cloud operations and troubleshooting across AWS environments. \nEnterprise-scale Kubernetes and Amazon EKS operational management. \nService Reliability Engineering practices and operational resilience methodologies. \nDistributed systems observability, monitoring and performance optimisation techniques.\nAutomation, operational analytics and continual service improvement approaches. \nVOIS Equal Opportunity Employer Commitment\nVodafone 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.\nJoin Us\nAt 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.\nWe 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.\nWith us, you can be truly be yourself and belong, share inspiration, embrace new opportunities, thrive, and make a real difference.\nAlert\nApply for Vodafone jobs only through the official Vodafone Careers website to avoid job scams and fraud.” #JDEnhancedByTARA\nFollow us on social media and #StayConnected\nLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/vois/\nFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/voisglobal\nInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/voisglobal/","description_format":"text","description_chars":7099,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":true},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Telecommunications"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-23T19:08:38Z"}],"liveness":{"score":63,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.632,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":57,"reasons":["conf:0","stale_co","velocity","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-09-24T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/vodafone-group-senior-manager-aws-microservices-eks-operations-specialist-pune","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/vodafone-group-senior-manager-aws-microservices-eks-operations-specialist-pune.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-24T14:39:35Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers"}}