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, Obs

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