This role is for one of the Weekday's clients

Salary range: Rs 500000 - Rs 1500000 (ie INR 5 - 15 LPA)

Min Experience: 5+ years

Location: Bengaluru

Job Type: full-time

We are looking for an experienced Lead Platform Engineer with 5–9 years of expertise in platform engineering, Dev Ops, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or infrastructure engineering. You will play a key role in designing, implementing, and maintaining highly available, scalable, and secure enterprise platforms that support mission-critical workloads.

The ideal candidate has strong hands-on experience managing Kubernetes or Open Shift environments, enterprise virtualization platforms, Linux systems, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC). You will work closely with development, cloud, and operations teams to build robust automation pipelines and improve platform reliability.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities

- Design, build, and manage enterprise-grade Kubernetes or Open Shift platforms across production environments.
- Deploy, configure, and maintain Open Shift distributions such as Open Shift Container Platform (OCP), OKD, ROSA, or ARO.
- Manage virtualization infrastructure using VMware vSphere or enterprise bare-metal environments.
- Administer and troubleshoot Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) servers with a focus on stability, security, and performance.
- Implement Git Ops workflows using tools such as ArgoCD to automate application deployments.
- Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Ansible, or similar automation frameworks.
- Monitor platform health, optimize resource utilization, and ensure high availability of infrastructure.
- Build CI/CD integration strategies for cloud-native application deployment.
- Collaborate with software engineering teams to improve platform scalability, reliability, and developer experience.
- Implement infrastructure security best practices, compliance standards,



and disaster recovery strategies.
- Participate in production incident management, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Mentor junior engineers and contribute to platform engineering best practices across teams.

Required SkillsMust-Have Skills

- 5–9 years of experience in Platform Engineering, Dev Ops, Infrastructure Engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).
- Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Open Shift, OKD, ROSA, or ARO.
- Experience managing enterprise virtualization platforms including VMware vSphere or Bare-metal infrastructure.
- Strong Linux administration experience, preferably Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).
- Expertise in Git Ops methodologies using ArgoCD.
- Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or Ansible.
- Strong understanding of containerization technologies including Docker and Kubernetes ecosystem.
- Experience troubleshooting production infrastructure and distributed systems.
- Good knowledge of networking fundamentals, storage, DNS, load balancing, and security concepts.
- Experience with automation and scripting using Bash, Python, or similar languages.

Valuable-to-Have Skills

- Experience with public cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
- Knowledge of observability tools including Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or Open Telemetry.
- Familiarity with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Git Hub Actions, or Git Lab CI.
- Experience with service mesh technologies like Istio.
- Knowledge of security scanning, compliance automation, and policy management.
- Exposure to enterprise platform modernization and hybrid cloud environments.

Preferred Qualifications

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related engineering discipline.
- Relevant certifications in Kubernetes, Open Shift, Red Hat, VMware, AWS, Azure, or Terraform are an added advantage.

📌 Lead Platform Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Weekday AI
📍 Bengaluru