Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

Job Title: Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu

DevOps and SRE Practices:

● Design implement and manage automated CI/CD platforms

● Standardise and automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration management

● Observability framework implementation, Security and shift left mindset Frameworks and Tools:

● Build high performance cloud native tools and services(Internal Dev Platforms, custom operators etc)

● Build frameworks for development workflows(CI/CD) and platforms for managing containerized workloads across environments

● Reduce toil through automation for all the platform productions Reliability with Scale(SRE)

● Build auto healing systems and chaos engineering

● Scale and manage distributed system

● Champion 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 infrastructure

● Look 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.