Platform Engineer

Role Overview
The Platform Engineer will be responsible for designing, automating, and operating UIDAI’s core application and infrastructure platform to ensure high availability, scalability, and reliability across multiple data centres
This role focuses on Service Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles, observability, and infrastructure automation, ensuring that UIDAI systems consistently meet defined SLA/SLO targets
The position requires in-depth technical expertise in container orchestration, service mesh, CI/CD, monitoring, and distributed system reliability, combined with strong ownership, operational discipline, and collaborative problem-solving skills

Key Responsibilities
Platform Engineering & Reliability
Design and maintain scalable, secure, and fault-tolerant infrastructure for UIDAI’s core systems deployed across multiple DCs
Apply SRE principles — define, measure, and continuously improve SLIs/SLOs/SLAs for all mission-critical services
Build self-healing and automated recovery mechanisms for core applications and APIs




Perform capacity planning, failure testing, and reliability analysis

Infrastructure Automation & Configuration Management
Design and manage infrastructure provisioning and configuration using automation frameworks
Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform, Ansible, or Chef is desirable
Develop repeatable automation for workplace setup, deployment, and monitoring across hybrid DC environments

Containerization, Orchestration & Service Mesh
Manage and optimise large-scale Kubernetes (K8s) clusters for production workloads
Implement and maintain Service Mesh (Istio/Linkerd) for secure, observable, and resilient service-to-service communication
Work with CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and ArgoCD (experience with any equivalent CI/CD platform is acceptable)
Ensure isolation, policy enforcement, and resource quota management across namespaces and tenants

Monitoring, Observability & Incident Manage

📌 Platform Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI)
📍 Bengaluru