Senior Platform Engineer

₹17 - 29 Lakh/Year (Annual salary)

Onsite Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Job Title: Senior Platform Engineer 

Location: Chennai, IndiaJob Type: Full timeExperience: 6+ years No of positions: 2  Responsibilities:DevOps and SRE Practices:Design implement and manage automated CI/CD platformsStandardise and automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration managementObservability framework implementation, Security and shift left mindset Frameworks and Tools:Build high performance cloud native tools and services(Internal DevPlatforms, custom operators etc)Build frameworks for development workflows(CI/CD) and platforms for managing containerized workloads across environmentsReduce toil through automation for all the platform productionsReliability with Scale(SRE)Build auto healing systems and chaos engineeringScale and manage distributed systemChampion incident response(On call rotation/blameless postmortems

• Optimise cloud costs(FinOps), cloud security and scalability.Qualifications:Minimum of 6+ years of experience in software development.Strong software engineering background (Go/Java preferred).Cloud-native development (AWS/GCP APIs, SDKs, and infra-as-code).Experience building internal platforms/tools (not just managing infra).Deep knowledge of Kubernetes, containers, and distributed systems.Experience in designing and building API services is required.Strong analytical, problem solving, can-do attitude and communication skills are must.Experience in monitoring and alerting(Prometheus/Grafana) is a plus.  Additional notes:This role is not just a devops/cloud/ engineer. It requires platform mindset and building reusable scalable infrastructureLook for candidates who bridges development and operations, not ops focused.Passion and curiosity to learn new technologies and languages and patterns to improve security, availability, performance and new capabilities quickly.Previous experience working in startups is also very helpful along with a can-do attitude.