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 solid 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 environment 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, Ob

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