Platform Engineering Lead (For client company)

Location: Pune, India

Experience: 7+ years

What Success Looks Like

- Engineering teams ship faster with confidence and built-in guardrails.
- Cloud cost, security, and reliability are predictable, measurable, and well-managed.
- CI/CD pipelines are trusted, standardized, and production-ready.
- Platform decisions reduce cognitive load instead of introducing unnecessary process.

Scope & Expectations

This is a hands-on leadership role combining architecture and implementation.

You will:

- Build, not just review.
- Own the platform roadmap—not just infrastructure tickets.
- Act as a force multiplier for product engineering teams rather than becoming a bottleneck.
- Drive platform strategy while remaining deeply involved in execution.

Key Responsibilities

Platform & Cloud Architecture

- Own Zoop's platform and cloud architecture across GCP and AWS.
- Design reusable, opinionated platform patterns instead of one-off infrastructure.
- Build and evolve Zoop's Internal Developer Platform (IDP), including:
- Self-service environments
- Golden paths (paved roads)
- Standardized templates
- Built-in engineering guardrails
- Lead Kubernetes and cloud-native adoption at scale.
- Drive infrastructure automation using Terraform, Pulumi, or similar Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools.

CI/CD, Reliability & Developer Experience

- Establish robust CI/CD practices with quality gates and production readiness.
- Improve deployment safety through automation and testing.
- Define and monitor:
- Golden Signals
- SLIs
- SLOs




- Incident response processes
- Reduce operational toil and improve developer productivity.
- Make observability a first-class capability using cost-efficient monitoring systems.
- Build an observability platform that multiple engineering teams can easily integrate into their applications.

Security, Privacy & Compliance

- Build security-by-default into infrastructure and deployment pipelines.
- Lead implementation and continuous compliance for:
- DPDP Act (India)
- ISO 27001:2022
- SOC 2 Type II
- Implement:
- Zero Trust architecture
- Least-privilege access
- Secure data isolation

FinOps & Cloud Optimization

- Make cloud costs transparent and accountable across engineering teams.
- Establish FinOps practices including:
- Budgets
- Cost alerts
- Optimization routines
- Drive build-vs-buy decisions using clear ROI analysis.

AI, Data & MLOps Foundations

- Build secure and scalable foundations for AI and MLOps workloads.
- Define guardrails for AI systems and sensitive data handling.

Leadership & Collaboration

- Partner closely with engineering teams to align infrastructure strategy with product goals.
- Mentor engineers and guide teams through technical change.




- Balance long-term platform initiatives with practical execution.

What We're Looking For

Experience

- 7+ years of experience building and operating production infrastructure.
- Experience scaling engineering platforms in high-growth or regulated companies.
- Strong hands-on expertise in:
- Kubernetes and the cloud-native ecosystem
- Service Mesh technologies
- Policy Engines
- GCP, AWS (Azure exposure is a plus)
- Terraform and Infrastructure as Code

Engineering & Operations

- Solid understanding of SDLC and modern CI/CD systems (Jenkins, GitOps, etc.).
- Experience with observability tools such as:
- Grafana
- Prometheus
- New Relic
- Comfortable reading and contributing to production systems written in:
- Go
- Python
- Node.js

Security & Compliance

- Practical experience implementing ISO 27001 and SOC 2 controls.
- Strong understanding of:
- Data protection
- Privacy
- Identity and access management
- Security best practices

Mindset

We're looking for someone who is:

- Action-oriented with sound engineering judgment.
- Analytical, cost-conscious, and reliability-focused.
- Collaborative, calm under pressure, and open to feedback.
- Comfortable challenging decisions and explaining trade-offs when necessary.

Nice to Have

- Experience in fintech, identity, or other regulated industries.
- Built Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) or shared infrastructure tooling.
- Contributions to open-source projects.

Skills:- Amazon Web Services (AWS), IDP and Terraform

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