Engagement: Contract, initial 6 months, extendable on performance and renewal

Location: Remote, India-based (Pune preferred, so we can work closely together)

Overlap: 2 to 3 hours of daily overlap with US Eastern time

We are hiring a hands-on Lead Platform Engineer for one of our US-based clients, an established product company running a modern cloud platform at scale. Their applications, APIs, integrations and reporting all sit on top of this infrastructure, and this role owns its reliability and guardrails.
This is a player-coach role. You will operate AWS and Kubernetes for real, own Airflow as a shared service, sharpen deployment and observability standards, run incident response, and lead a small senior platform team (2 to 3 engineers). Direction-setter and doer, both.

What you will actually do:
Design, build and support production cloud infrastructure, deployment and runtime patterns
Run and improve AWS: networking, IAM, load balancing, DNS, compute, storage, managed databases
Own EKS/Kubernetes runtime: ingress, service identity, secrets, config, observability,



secure deploys
Own Airflow as a platform service: reliability, retries, failure handling, backfills, support
Drive reliability through SLOs, monitoring, alerting, incident response and honest postmortems
Work with Security and Compliance on IAM, secrets, access control and audit in a compliance-aware environment
Partner with the client's CTO on durable platform architecture and cut avoidable complexity

The stack:
AWS, EKS/Kubernetes, RDS/Aurora, SQS, Redis/ElastiCache, S3, VPC, ALB/NLB, Route 53, IAM. Airflow for orchestration. CloudWatch, Freshping and HyperDX (or similar) for observability. GitHub, CI/CD, Jira, Confluence. Application side is Java/Spring Boot and Python. You do not need every tool, but AWS, EKS, Airflow, CI/CD and production support must be second nature.

What we are looking for:
7+ years hands-on engineering, with strong time in platform, DevOps, SRE or cloud infrastructure
3+ y

📌 Lead Platform Engineer (Pune)
🏢 VidyaMohan Software Solutions
📍 Pune