Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Job Summary

Senior Developer / DevOps Platform Engineer

Backstage · GitOps · Crossplane · Cloud-Native Platform

3 Positions | Full-Time | Hybrid / Remote Negotiable | Immediate Hire

This is a product engineering role — not a traditional DevOps operations position. You will design, build, operate, and continuously improve an enterprise-grade Internal Developer Platform (IDP) that empowers development teams to self-serve infrastructure, deployments, and platform services. If you thrive on owning features end-to-end and care deeply about the developer experience, this role was written for you.

Why We Are Hiring

Our Private Cloud 2.0 initiative has produced a working demo of a self-service developer platform. We are now industrialising that demo into an enterprise-ready product. We need engineers to own the full lifecycle — Backstage customisation, GitOps pipelines, Crossplane-driven infrastructure provisioning, security policy, observability, and AIOps intelligence — and keep it running and improving in production.

Key Responsibilities

Own and extend Backstage: develop custom plugins, software templates, scaffolder actions, and catalog integrations that reduce developer friction
Build and maintain GitOps pipelines (GitHub Actions + Argo CD) covering build, test, security scan, promotion, and rollback workflows
Author Crossplane XRDs, compositions, and providers to enable one-click self-service provisioning across Kubernetes, OpenShift, AKS, and VM targets
Integrate Backstage with downstream systems: Crossplane,



Argo CD, Vault, OPA, Prometheus, and internal ITSM/CMDB tooling
Implement and enforce security controls: Kyverno/OPA policies, Vault secrets management, RBAC, and audit logging across the full provisioning chain
Build observability coverage (metrics, traces, logs) and surface platform health via Backstage and AIOps dashboards
Manage Backstage upgrades without breaking custom plugins — maintain upgrade-protected extension patterns and document architectural decisions
Write runbooks, support documentation, and onboarding guides so that what you build can be handed over and evolved by others
Participate in platform support rotation: triage issues, resolve incidents, and close the feedback loop back into the product backlog
Collaborate with platform architects, security, and product owners to translate requirements into production-grade platform features
Key Responsibilities
1. To architect| design and develop (through Team) solution for product/project & sustenance delivery
2. To support as an SME
3.



To ensure knowledge up-gradation and work with new technologies so that the solution is current and meets quality standards and the client requirements
4. To train and develop team so as to ensure that there is an adequate supply of trained manpower in the said technology and deliver risks are mitigated
5. To gather specifications and deliver solutions to the client organization based on understanding of a domain or technology
6. To review project deliverables.
7. To recommend client value creation initiatives and implement industry best practices (on specific technology/product)

Skill Requirements

Required Skills

SKILL AREA WHAT WE EXPECT

Backstage & TypeScript

Plugin dev, scaffolder, catalog, TechDocs, permissions, React/Node.js

GitOps & Argo CD

GitHub Actions, branching strategies, sync, drift detection, promotion

Crossplane & IaC

XRDs, compositions, providers, functions; Terraform, Helm, Kubernetes YAML

Kubernetes / OpenShift / AKS

Networking, ingress, service discovery, RBAC, Cilium/Hubble fundamentals

Security & Policy-as-Code

OPA/Gatekeeper, Kyverno, Vault secrets management, least-privilege RBAC

Observability & AIOps

Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry; AIOps dashboards, incident insights

Engineering Ownership

End-to-end accountability: design code test secure support improve

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