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DevOps, SRE and platform engineering jobs in Bengaluru

DevOps, site reliability and platform engineering jobs in Bengaluru: daily work, Kubernetes and cloud skills, interviews and certifications.

DevOps, site reliability engineering (SRE) and platform engineering overlap heavily. All three keep software running reliably and make it easy for developers to ship. DevOps roles lean towards build and deployment pipelines, SRE roles towards uptime, monitoring and incident response, and platform roles towards building internal tools that other teams use.

Bengaluru has some of the largest SRE and platform teams outside the US, because many global companies run their round-the-clock operations and cloud platforms from India. Startups hire DevOps engineers early, often as the first person who owns all of infrastructure.

What the work involves

  • Run Kubernetes clusters and the cloud infrastructure underneath them, defined as code in Terraform.
  • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines so teams can deploy many times a day safely.
  • Set up monitoring, alerting and dashboards, and define service level objectives (SLOs).
  • Take part in an on-call rotation, lead incident response and write blameless post-mortems.
  • Cut cloud costs and automate repetitive operations work away.

The market right now

From the open roles Brightspark is tracking today, collected from employers' career sites and open job boards. Updated through the day.

101open roles
28in Bengaluru
73remote, open to India

Work mode, where stated: Remote 73 · On-site 2

Skills asked for most

  1. Observability 77
  2. Automation 63
  3. CI/CD 58
  4. Kubernetes 53
  5. Terraform 53
  6. Networking 50
  7. Python 45
  8. AWS 44
  9. System Design 39
  10. Incident Response 38
  11. Linux 38
  12. Infrastructure as Code 36

Hiring the most

  1. Akamai Technologies 4
  2. CrowdStrike 4
  3. Motorola Solutions 3
  4. Srijan Technologies 3
  5. Apple 2
  6. Bosch Group 2
  7. Cisco 2
  8. DACHS IT 2
  9. GitLab 2
  10. JumpCloud 2

Skills employers look for

  • Linux and networking fundamentals
  • Kubernetes and Docker
  • Terraform or another infrastructure-as-code tool
  • AWS, Azure or GCP
  • CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Argo CD)
  • Prometheus, Grafana and logging stacks
  • Scripting in Python, Go or Bash

How interviews usually run

Rounds usually cover Linux and networking (what happens when you type a URL, how DNS and TLS work, how to debug a slow server), Kubernetes and cloud architecture, and a scripting or coding exercise. SRE roles at product companies often include a full data structures and algorithms round as well.

Expect a troubleshooting scenario where the interviewer describes an outage and you talk through how you would find and fix it, and a design round on something like a deployment pipeline or a highly available service across regions.

How to stand out

  • Describe incidents you handled: what broke, how you found it and what you changed so it would not happen again.
  • Show infrastructure you built as code, with numbers such as deploy time, uptime or cost savings.
  • A Kubernetes certification (CKA or CKAD) is widely recognised and tests practical skill.
  • Learn one observability stack end to end, from metrics to traces to alerts.

Courses to learn the skills

Hand-picked for the skills this role asks for most. Start with the free tutorials; the paid courses go deeper and often include hands-on labs.

Free

Paid

Paid courses are rated 4.0 or higher by at least 1,000 learners. Prices vary with frequent sales, so check before you buy.

Certifications worth knowing

Recognised by hiring managers for this kind of role. A certificate rarely replaces experience, but it helps at screening and is a structured way to fill a gap.

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