DevOps Platform Engineer
Key Responsibilities
- Own and operate the full infrastructure lifecycle for a production-grade, cloud-native platform operating under strict security and compliance requirements.
- Design and provision cloud infrastructure, build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, support production operations and continuously improve reliability, scalability and security.
- Operate and evolve managed Kubernetes clusters (node pools, autoscaling, upgrades, maintenance windows, Pod Disruption Budgets).
- Maintain environment-specific Kubernetes manifests using Kustomize.
- Implement and enforce cloud-native workload identity (no credential-based auth in manifests).
- Responsible for cloud networking: virtual networks, subnets, security groups, private endpoints, DNS, and peering.
- Design, own, and evolve GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines for backend, authentication, and frontend services.
- Maintain branch and workplace promotion strategies with enforced gates.
- Manage container image publishing and promotion through enterprise registries.




- Enforce container scanning and quality gates — no bypasses in protected branches.
- Own release workflows, manual promotion mechanisms, and artifact versioning.
- Maintain local development simulation environments that accurately mirror production configuration.

Required Qualifications
- Core Platform Engineering: 5+ years in DevOps / Platform / Infrastructure engineering roles.
- Deep experience with Kubernetes in production environments.
- Strong cloud expertise (Azure primary; AWS secondary).
- Advanced containerization and registry management experience.
- Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform, ARM, or Bicep.
- Git-based operational discipline — production systems are defined in code.
- CI/CD & Automation: GitHub Actions workflow design and maintenance.
- Artifact and container scanning, promotion, and release management.
- Static analysis and quality gate enforcement.
- Secure automation practices for regulated enviro

📌 DevOps Platform Engineer (Hyderabad)
🏢 HCL INDIA
📍 Hyderabad