Location: Hybrid/Hyderabad
Team: Platform Engineering
Level: Senior Individual Contributor
Experience: 4–6 years

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About the Role

As a Senior Platform Engineer, you'll work at the intersection of developer experience, infrastructure, and security — crafting the tools, pipelines, and foundations that enable our engineering teams to ship faster and more safely. This is a high-impact, hands-on role where the work you do directly shapes how hundreds of engineers build and deploy software every day.

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Responsibilities

• Write and maintain infrastructure-as-code using Terraform, ensuring environments are reproducible, version-controlled, and consistent across cloud providers.
• Work across AWS, GCP, and/or Azure, leveraging cloud-native services for compute, networking, storage, and security.
• Contribute to the Internal Developer Platform by developing self-service capabilities, reusable templates, and standardised workflows that improve developer productivity and reduce toil.
• Design and implement identity and access management solutions — working across RBAC, OIDC, OAuth 2.0, SAML, and SCIM to enforce least-privilege access and secure service-to-service authentication.
• Build, operate, and improve Kubernetes-based infrastructure, including workload policies, namespace isolation, Helm/Kustomize templating, and developer-facing abstractions.
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, enabling fast, secure, and consistent software delivery across engineering teams.
• Manage secrets and credentials using tools such as HashiCorp Vault or cloud-native secrets managers, and embed secrets hygiene into platform workflows.
• Implement and maintain observability tooling — logging, metrics, and tracing pipelines using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, or similar.
• Contribute to service mesh configuration and operation (Istio, Linkerd) to support zero-trust networking, traffic management, and mTLS between services.
• Apply policy-as-code using frameworks such as OPA or Kyverno to enforce security and compliance guardrails at the platform level.
• Collaborate with Security and Compliance teams to embed access governance, audit logging, and compliance controls (SOC 2, ISO 27001) into platform workflows.
• Write clear documentation and run enablement sessions to help engineering teams adopt platform tooling effectively.
• Develop internal tooling, automation, and platform extensions using one or more programming languages such as Python, Go, or Java.
• Participate in on-call rotations and contribute to incident response and post-mortems for platform-level issues.

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What We're Looking For

• 4–6 years of experience in platform engineering, DevOps, site reliability, or infrastructure engineering.
• Hands-on experience building or contributing to an Internal Developer Platform, ideally with Backstage or a similar framework.
• Strong understanding of identity and access management concepts — RBAC, OIDC, OAuth 2.0, SAML, SCIM, and cloud-native IAM.
• Proficiency in Terraform and infrastructure-as-code practices at scale, including module design and state management.
• Solid Kubernetes experience — cluster operations, RBAC, admission controllers, Helm, and Kustomize.
• Experience with CI/CD pipeline design and maintenance, particularly with GitHub Actions.
• Comfortable working across at least one major cloud provider — AWS, GCP, or Azure — with familiarity in cloud networking, IAM, and security primitives.
• Experience with secrets management tools such as HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, or GCP Secret Manager.
• Familiarity with observability tools — Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, or equivalent.
• Strong scripting skills in Python, Go, or Bash for automation and tooling.
• Good communication skills — able to work cross-functionally and explain platform concepts clearly to non-platform engineers.

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Nice to Have

• Experience with service mesh technologies such as Istio or Linkerd.
• Familiarity with policy-as-code frameworks — OPA, Kyverno, or Sentinel.
• Exposure to SOC 2, ISO 27001, or similar compliance frameworks.
• Experience with GitOps workflows using ArgoCD or Flux.
• Contributions to open-source platform or infrastructure tooling.
• Experience working with event streaming platforms such as Apache Kafka.
• Familiarity with workflow orchestration tools such as Apache Airflow, Temporal, or Prefect.
• Ability to build and integrate AI agents, with hands-on experience using AI-powered developer tools such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex, or Gemini Code.

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This is a senior, hands-on engineering role sitting within the Platform Engineering team, focused on designing and building the infrastructure, tooling, and developer platforms that underpin how our engineering organisation operates at scale. The role spans a broad remit — from cloud infrastructure and identity and access management, to Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and internal developer experience. You'll be working closely with engineering, security, and compliance teams to ensure the platform is secure, scalable, and easy to use. A strong focus will be placed on automation, self-service capabilities, and reducing toil for engineering teams — enabling developers to ship software faster and more reliably. The ideal candidate brings deep technical expertise across modern cloud-native tooling, a security-first mindset, and a genuine passion for improving the developer experience.