Educational Qualification

• B.Tech./B.E. in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related engineering discipline (Must have; full-time regular course)
• MTech. /M.S. in Computer Science, Information Technology, or Software Engineering desirable
• Certifications (at least one required at deployment — Must have): AWS Solutions Architect Skilled, AWS DevOps Engineer Professional, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect, or CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator)
• Certifications (Desirable): CKAD, CKS, HashiCorp Terraform Associate, Certified Backstage Associate (if available), TOGAF 9, SAFe Architect, ITIL 4 Foundation

Experience

• 12+ years in software engineering, platform engineering, or DevSecOps, with minimum 4 years in a Lead Architect or Head of Platform role owning a production platform end-to-end
• Minimum 2 years of hands-on experience with an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) — Backstage or equivalent — covering plugin architecture, software catalogue, scaffolder templates, and SSO integration




• Demonstrated experience architecting and operating cloud-native platforms at scale, serving 500+ developers across multiple business units or tenants
• Demonstrated experience with source-code and DevSecOps platforms (GitLab, GitHub Enterprise, Bitbucket) as the CI/CD backbone, and with an OSS or licensed project management tool (OpenProject, Jira, Azure DevOps Boards)
• Prior experience delivering platform engineering initiatives for government, PSU, BFSI, or regulated enterprise programmes preferred
• Prior experience owning migration of a large SDLC / ALM estate — repositories, work packages, users, pipelines, audit logs — to a new platform desirable

Key Responsibilities

Platform Architecture & Strategy

• Own the end-to-end reference architecture of the platform across the developer portal (IDP), source-code and CI/CD layer, project management layer, and observability, operations & security layer
• Define and

📌 Platform Engineering Head (New Delhi)
🏢 National e Governance Division
📍 New Delhi