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Job Summary
We are looking for a hands-on Senior Platform Engineer (Kubernetes Platform & Platform Services) with 6 to 12 years of experince to design, build, and operate our internal cloud/hybrid platform powered by Kubernetes. This role is for engineers who don’t just maintain infrastructure — they build platform products and services that enable development teams to move fast, safely, and reliably.You will take end-to-end ownership of platform services such as databases, message queues, caching systems, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and developer tooling. We expect strong engineering fundamentals, deep Kubernetes expertise, and a product mindset toward internal platforms.This is not a ticket-driven operations role. This is a builder role.
What You Will Do
- Design, implement, and operate production-grade Kubernetes clusters
- Build and maintain platform services :
- PostgreSQL / MariaDB / Cassandra / etc.
- Kafka / RabbitMQ
- Redis
- Observability / Monitoring stack
- Secrets management
- And many more
- Develop internal self-service tooling for developers
- Automate infrastructure and platform provisioning (IaC, GitOps)
- Improve reliability, scalability, and security of the platform
- Own CI/CD systems and deployment workflows
- Implement observability standards (metrics, logs, tracing)
- Lead incident response and postmortem improvements
- Continuously reduce cognitive load for application teams
Required Skills & Experience
- Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production
- Deep understanding of:
- Networking (CNI, Ingress,
Load Balancers, Service Mesh)
- Storage and Stateful Workloads (CSI, Snapshots, StatefulSets, storage classes)
- Resource management (requests/limits, autoscaling)
- Kubernetes Operators
- Experience operating or building platform services:
- Databases (replication, backup, failover)
- Message brokers (partitioning, durability, scaling)
- Caching systems
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi, Crossplane, etc.)
- CI/CD systems and GitOps workflows
- Experience with at least one cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Strong debugging and incident response skills
- Production mindset and reliability-first thinking
Nice to Have
- Telco/BSS domain knowledge
- Experience building internal developer platforms
- Multi-tenant Kubernetes environments
- Service mesh (Istio, Linkerd)
- Security hardening & policy enforcement
- Cost optimization in cloud environments
- Multi-region or disaster recovery architectures
What We Value
End-to-End Ownership
You build it, you run it, you improve it.
Robust Hands-On Engineering
We expect engineers who write code, automate everything, and dive deep into root causes.
Platform-as-a-Product Thinking
The platform is a product for developers. Developer experience matters.
High Standards
We optimize for long-term maintainability, reliability, and simplicity.
Continuous Improvement
Blameless postmortems, automation over manual processes, and learning from failure.
What Success Looks Like
- Developers can provision systems in minutes, not days.
- Platform incidents are rare and well-understood.
- Scaling is predictable.
- Deployments are boring.
- The platform accelerates product teams instead of blocking them.
📌 Senior Platform Engineer (India)
🏢 Optiva
📍 India