This role is for one of the Weekday's clients
Salary range: Rs 1300000 - Rs 2600000 (ie INR 13-26 LPA)
Experience: 6+ yrs

Location: Pune, Maharashtra, India

Job Type: Full time

We are looking for an experienced
Platform Engineering Lead
to drive the evolution of a scalable, secure, and high-performing cloud platform that empowers engineering teams to build and deliver products efficiently. This is a hands-on leadership role where you will define the platform strategy, architect cloud-native infrastructure, and build reusable engineering capabilities that improve developer productivity, operational reliability, and security.

The ideal candidate will have extensive experience building production-grade infrastructure, leading platform engineering initiatives, and implementing modern DevOps practices across cloud environments. You will work closely with product engineering, security, and leadership teams to establish standardized platform capabilities, strengthen CI/CD pipelines, improve observability, optimize cloud costs, and build secure-by-design infrastructure.

Requirements




Key Responsibilities
- Own and drive the platform engineering roadmap, cloud architecture, and infrastructure strategy
- Design and implement scalable cloud-native platforms across GCP, AWS, or Azure environments
- Build and enhance Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) with self-service capabilities, reusable templates, and engineering guardrails
- Lead Kubernetes adoption and implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, Pulumi, or similar tools
- Design, implement, and optimize secure, reliable, and automated CI/CD pipelines that accelerate software delivery
- Improve developer productivity through automation, platform standardization, and reduction of operational overhead
- Establish observability frameworks using monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions to ensure platform reliability and performance
- Define and implement SLIs, SLOs, incident response processes, and operatio

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