Senior Platform Engineer II
Platform Engineering | 7+ Years Experience
About the Role
Join our platform engineering team as a Senior Platform Engineer II. You will build and operate secure, reliable Linux platforms and automation that help engineering teams deliver software efficiently. You will lead platform improvements across enterprise environments and partner with security, infrastructure, and application teams to keep services scalable and production-ready.
Key Responsibilities
• Build, operate, and troubleshoot enterprise UNIX/Linux platforms, from server provisioning through production readiness and lifecycle management.
• Lead Linux vulnerability remediation, security hardening, compliance validation, and audit readiness at enterprise scale.
• Plan and deliver operating system patching, upgrades, hardening, and fleet maintenance.
• Automate platform operations with Ansible, Python, Shell, APIs, and infrastructure as code; maintain Git-based workflows and CI/CD pipelines.
• Manage Linux workloads across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud,



including image and platform lifecycle activities.
• Improve availability with monitoring, diagnostics, auto-remediation, and self-healing capabilities.
• Resolve complex operating system, network, storage, authentication, and performance issues; lead root-cause analysis and preventive actions.
• Manage secure access controls, including SSH, sudo, PAM, certificates, and privileged access.
• Support incident, problem, and change management, production operations, and on-call response.
• Maintain platform standards, runbooks, procedures, and technical documentation; work across teams to improve platform stability and usability.
Key Requirements
• 7+ years of hands-on Platform Engineering, including substantial enterprise Linux operations.
• Expert Linux administration across RHEL 8/9, Ubuntu 22.04/24.04, and Amazon Linux 2/2023. This includes security and kernel patching, canary rollouts, rollback (such as dnf history), users and s

📌 Senior Platform Engineer (India)
🏢 First American (India)
📍 India