Position Overview :

We are looking for an experienced Platform Engineering Lead to lead the design, development, modernization, and operation of scalable cloud platforms and microservices-based applications.

The ideal candidate should have strong hands-on expertise across Google Cloud Platform (GCP), AWS, microservices, Kubernetes, DevOps, and cloud-native engineering.

Experience in the Healthcare domain is highly desirable, particularly in environments involving healthcare applications, data, security, compliance, and integration.

Key Responsibilities :

- Lead the architecture, design, development, and modernization of enterprise cloud platforms.
- Design and implement scalable, secure, and highly available platforms across GCP and AWS.
- Lead the migration and modernization of legacy applications into cloud-native and microservices-based architectures.
- Define and implement platform engineering standards, frameworks, reusable components, and best practices.
- Provide technical leadership for microservices, APIs, containers, Kubernetes, service mesh, and event-driven architectures.
- Drive DevOps and CI/CD automation across application and infrastructure platforms.
- Work closely with application, security, infrastructure, architecture, and product teams to deliver enterprise solutions.
- Establish platform observability covering logging, monitoring, tracing, alerting, performance, and reliability.
- Drive Infrastructure as Code using technologies such as Terraform.
- Ensure platforms meet enterprise requirements for security, scalability, availability, performance, and disaster recovery.
- Lead technical discussions, architecture reviews, design decisions, and engineering best-practice adoption.
- Mentor engineers and provide technical direction to platform and cloud engineering teams.
- Identify opportunities to improve existing platforms through upgrade, modernization,



automation, and technology refresh initiatives.
- Stay current with emerging cloud-native technologies and continuously recommend improvements to the platform ecosystem.

Tech Stack &

Requirements :

- Cloud : Strong hands-on experience with GCP and AWS; cloud networking, IAM, compute, storage, databases, security, and managed services.
- Microservices : Strong understanding of microservices architecture, design patterns, REST APIs, API gateways, messaging, and event-driven architecture.
- Containers : Strong experience with Docker, Kubernetes (GKE/EKS), Helm, service mesh, and container security.
- DevOps : Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines, GitHub/GitLab/Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible, and Infrastructure-as-Code.
- Observability : Experience with enterprise monitoring, logging, distributed tracing, SRE practices, and SLIs/SLOs.

Healthcare Domain (Preferred) :

- Healthcare applications, data, integration, HL7, FHIR, and healthcare interoperability.
- Healthcare security, privacy, and compliance requirements.

Leadership & Soft Skills :

- Strong technical leadership, architectural decision-making, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Ability to lead distributed engineering teams and drive technical initiatives.
- Strong mentoring and coaching capabilities.

Education &

Experience :

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
- 10 years of experience in software/platform/cloud engineering, with significant experience in technical leadership.
- Proven experience delivering microservices and cloud modernization programs.

Preferred Certifications :

- Google Qualified Cloud Architect / DevOps Engineer.
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect / DevOps Engineer.
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or equivalent.
- Terraform Associate or equivalent Infrastructure-as-Code certification.

📌 Sutherland - Platform Engineering Lead - AWS/GCP (India)
🏢 Sutherland Global Services Private
📍 India