Senior Associate ART Engineer

Company : Npci

Job Type : Full Time

Hyderabad, India

Job Description - Senior Associate ART Engineer

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)

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