?Host360 | Platform Engineering Team For engineers who love understanding how modern infrastructure actually works - not just using it.

Job Title: Platform Engineer – DevOps/Kubernetes

Company: Host360

Location: Remote

Type: Paid Internship

Duration: 6 Months

Opportunity for Full-Time: Yes (Based on Performance)

Positions: 2

Stipend - Upto 15K INR (Experienced Members will be given more preference) Role Description

Host360 is seeking an exceptional Platform Engineer to join our Platform Engineering team. This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of cloud infrastructure by exploring emerging technologies, validating innovative ideas through hands-on experimentation, and transforming technical concepts into market-ready products using and deploying LLMs, AI Tools and self learning.

You will operate at the intersection of engineering excellence, platform architecture, and product innovation. This role is ideal for technologists who thrive on discovery, experimentation, and translating cutting-edge technical possibilities into real-world solutions that drive business value. ##What You'll Do

1.

Technology

Discovery & Innovation

Research and evaluate emerging technologies across cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes ecosystem, storage, networking, virtualization, DevOps, and SRE tooling

Track industry trends, open-source innovations, and hyperscaler advancements to identify opportunities for competitive differentiation

Assess technologies for scalability, security, cost-efficiency, and operational impact before recommending adoption

Stay ahead of the curve on cloud-native architectures, automation frameworks, and infrastructure-as-code best practices 2. Proof of Concept (POC) Development & Prototyping

Design and implement rapid POCs to validate new ideas and technical hypotheses

Build reference architectures, experimental labs, and prototype environments

Benchmark performance, reliability, cost, and operational complexity

Identify technical risks, limitations, and operational considerations early in the innovation cycle

Document findings with detailed analysis, trade-offs, and actionable recommendations 3.

Product

Ideation & Requirements Definition

Convert validated technical concepts into structured product ideas

Define target users, customer use cases, and clear value propositions

Create comprehensive Product Requirement Documents (PRDs) including problem statements, objectives, functional/non-functional requirements, architecture overviews, security considerations, and dependency mapping

Translate technical innovation into business outcomes and customer benefits





Develop go-to-market readiness documentation for new platform capabilities 4.

Cloud Infrastructure

Management & Operations

Monitor cloud infrastructure for availability, performance, and operational health across multi-cloud environments

Perform proactive capacity planning to support scalability and business growth objectives

Provision, configure, and manage cloud compute resources with a focus on automation and repeatability

Administer cloud storage systems ensuring performance, redundancy, and cost efficiency

Manage virtual networking components including VPCs/VNets, subnets, routing tables, load balancers, and gateways

Implement and maintain cloud-native monitoring, alerting, and observability tools

Optimize resource utilization to control cloud spend and eliminate waste through FinOps best practices

Support backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity solutions for cloud workloads

Conduct routine infrastructure health checks and preventive maintenance

Troubleshoot infrastructure-related alerts, service disruptions, and performance degradation

Maintain comprehensive documentation of cloud architecture, configurations, and resource inventory

Provide incident support and root cause analysis for cloud infrastructure issues

Collaborate with security teams to identify and remediate cloud infrastructure vulnerabilities 5. Cross-Functional Collaboration & Enablement

Partner with Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, Security, Compliance, Customer Success, and Pre-Sales teams

Support internal knowledge sharing through technical workshops, lunch-and-learns, and documentation

Provide technical input during go-to-market planning and customer-facing engagements

Act as a technical advisor and subject matter expert for emerging cloud technologies 6. Documentation & Thought Leadership

Create technical documentation, architecture decision records (ADRs), design notes, and internal proposals

Maintain up-to-date architecture diagrams, system designs, and technology evaluation frameworks

Present findings, recommendations, and technology roadmaps to leadership and stakeholders

Contribute to technical blogs, whitepapers, or open-source projects (encouraged) ##WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR 1.

Technical

Excellence (Good to have)





Cloud Platform Expertise: Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, GCP, or private cloud platforms (OpenStack, VMware, Nutanix)

Infrastructure Fundamentals: Deep understanding of virtualization, bare-metal infrastructure, Kubernetes, container orchestration, networking (VPCs, routing, load balancing), and storage systems (block, object, distributed)

Automation & IaC: Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation)

Experimental Mindset: Proven track record of building POCs, labs, test environments, and experimental architectures

Cloud-Native Ecosystem: Experience with CNCF projects (Kubernetes, Prometheus, Helm, Istio, Argo, etc.) 2. AI/ML Skills (Good to have)

Foundational understanding of AI/ML concepts including NLP, LLMs, prompt engineering, RAG, intent detection, Agentic AI, and feature engineering.

Familiarity with ML lifecycle practices such as Basic ML, data pipelines, Intent detection, CI/CD for ML, model monitoring, drift detection, and performance metrics.

- Product & Architecture Thinking

Ability to translate complex technical concepts into structured product requirements and customer value propositions

Experience writing or contributing to PRDs, design documents, RFCs, or technical specifications

Strong system design and architectural thinking with focus on scalability, reliability, and security

Understanding of security principles, compliance frameworks, and operational best practices

Ability to evaluate trade-offs between innovation, risk, cost, and time-to-market 4.

Qualified

Skills

Curiosity & Initiative: Self-driven learner with genuine passion for emerging technologies and continuous improvement

Communication: Exceptional written and verbal communication skills; ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders

Independence: Comfortable working autonomously with minimal supervision; proactive problem-solver

Influence & Collaboration: Ability to influence without direct authority and build consensus across teams

Pragmatism: Balance innovation with practical delivery; understand when 'good enough' beats 'perfect' This role is designed as a Product Engineering track. #Successful candidates will grow into: Platform Product Managers

Product Engineers

Principal Product roles over time If you’re looking for a role where thinking matters more than titles, we want to talk. #How We Evaluate You How you think, not where you worked

How you write, not what tools you list

How you reason through complexity ? Apply only if you enjoy deep products and hard problems.

📌 Platform Engineer – DevOps/Kubernetes (Mumbai)
🏢 Host360
📍 Mumbai