Platform Engineer – GCP, Kubernetes & Linux

Location: Turbhe, Navi Mumbai

Experience: 2–4 Years

Employment Type: Full-time

Work Mode: Fulltime, Onsite

Role Overview :

We are looking for a hands-on Platform Engineer with strong experience in Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Kubernetes, and Linux administration. The candidate will be responsible for building, managing, troubleshooting, and optimizing cloud-native platforms that support scalable, reliable, and secure applications.

The ideal candidate should have practical experience managing Kubernetes clusters, deploying containerized applications, administering Linux systems, and resolving infrastructure and platform-level issues in production environments.

Key Responsibilities

- Manage, configure, and troubleshoot Kubernetes clusters, preferably Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).
- Deploy and manage containerized applications using Kubernetes Deployments, Services, ConfigMaps, Secrets, Ingress, and related resources.
- Administer Linux systems, including process management, file systems, permissions, networking, CPU, memory, and system performance troubleshooting.
- Work with GCP services such as GKE, Compute Engine, VPC, IAM, Cloud Logging, Cloud Monitoring, and Cloud Load Balancing.
- Troubleshoot pod failures, CrashLoopBackOff, ImagePullBackOff, networking issues, resource constraints, and application connectivity problems.
- Manage Kubernetes workloads, resource requests and limits, autoscaling, health probes, and rolling deployments.
- Configure and troubleshoot networking components, including DNS, load balancers,



firewall rules, ingress controllers, and service connectivity.
- Automate routine platform administration and operational tasks using Bash or Python scripting.
- Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, and platform health checks to improve availability and reliability.
- Support incident management, root cause analysis, performance optimization, and production issue resolution.
- Collaborate with application developers, cloud engineers, security teams, and architecture teams to improve platform stability and scalability.
- Follow security best practices for IAM, service accounts, secrets management, access control, and system patching.

Mandatory Skills

- Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration.
- Practical experience with GCP and GKE.
- Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting skills.
- Good understanding of Docker or OCI containers.
- Knowledge of Kubernetes networking, services, ingress, storage, and workload management.
- Experience troubleshooting production infrastructure and platform issues.
- Working knowledge of Bash or Python scripting.
- Understanding of cloud networking, IAM, monitoring, and logging.

Good-to-Have Skills

- Terraform or other Infrastructure as Code tools.
- CI/CD pipelines and Git-based workflows.
- Helm charts and Kubernetes package management.
- Prometheus, Grafana, and cloud-native monitoring tools.
- Nginx, reverse proxies, and load balancing.
- GCP certifications such as Associate Cloud Engineer or Skilled Cloud DevOps Engineer.

📌 Platform Engineer (Navi Mumbai)
🏢 SID Global Solutions
📍 Navi Mumbai