Cloud Platform Engineer (AWS / EKS / Terraform)

Team: Infrastructure - Reports to Head of Infrastructure

About the role

Requirements:
Education
- Required: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field — or equivalent practical experience.
- Preferred: Relevant certifications over a Master's — CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator), HashiCorp Terraform Associate, AWS Solutions Architect Associate or higher.

Experience
- 3-5+ years in cloud, platform, or DevOps engineering.
- Proven track record running production Kubernetes on a managed cloud (EKS strongly preferred), including stateful workloads.
- Experience operating infrastructure entirely through Infrastructure as Code — no console-driven change management.

Technical expertise
- Kubernetes / EKS: cluster lifecycle and upgrades, autoscaling (Karpenter, KEDA, VPA), ingress and load balancing, IRSA/Pod Identity, core add-ons (cert-manager, external-dns, CoreDNS, node-local-dns).
- Databases and stateful services on Kubernetes:



deploying and operating databases via Kubernetes operators — PostgreSQL and MySQL (Percona operators), ScyllaDB, Elasticsearch, Valkey/Redis, Kafka (Strimzi) — plus AWS RDS/Aurora where managed services fit better; backup/restore, upgrades, and capacity management for stateful workloads.
- Terraform: authoring reusable, versioned, tested modules (not just consuming them) — variable/output interface design, 'terraform test', semantic versioning, remote state on S3.
- AWS core services: VPC and network design, Route 53, IAM (least-privilege roles and policies), S3, RDS/Aurora.
- Observability: Datadog, OpenTelemetry (collector and kube-stack), Grafana; alerting hygiene with low false-positive rates; log and event pipelines.
- Programming: solid scripting/tooling ability in Python or Go — enough to build renderers, validators, and pipeline tooling, not just glue scripts.
- Nice to have: data platform tooling (Airflow, Spark on Kubernetes, Temporal, StarRocks), id

📌 Cloud Platform Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Tookitaki Holding PTE
📍 Bengaluru