Platform Engineering Lead - AWS/GCP

Position Overview :

We are looking for an experienced Platform Engineering Lead to lead the design, development, modernization, and operation of scalable cloud platforms and microservices-based applications.

The ideal candidate should have strong hands-on expertise across Google Cloud Platform (GCP), AWS, microservices, Kubernetes, DevOps, and cloud-native engineering.

Experience in the Healthcare domain is highly desirable, particularly in environments involving healthcare applications, data, security, compliance, and integration.

Key Responsibilities :

• Lead the architecture, design, development, and modernization of enterprise cloud platforms.

• Design and implement scalable, secure, and highly available platforms across GCP and AWS.

• Lead the migration and modernization of legacy applications into cloud-native and microservices-based architectures.

• Define and implement platform engineering standards, frameworks, reusable components, and best practices.

• Provide technical leadership for microservices, APIs, containers, Kubernetes, service mesh, and event-driven architectures.

• Drive DevOps and CI/CD automation across application and infrastructure platforms.

• Work closely with application, security, infrastructure, architecture, and product teams to deliver enterprise solutions.

• Establish platform observability covering logging, monitoring, tracing, alerting, performance, and reliability.

• Drive Infrastructure as Code using technologies such as Terraform.

• Ensure platforms meet enterprise requirements for security, scalability, availability, performance, and disaster recovery.

• Lead technical discussions, architecture reviews, design decisions, and engineering best-practice adoption.

• Mentor engineers and provide technical direction to platform and cloud engineering teams.

• Identify opportunities to improve existing platforms through upgrade, modernization, automation, and technology refresh initiatives.

• Stay current with emerging cloud-native technologies and continuously recommend improvements to the platform ecosystem.

Tech Stack & Requirements :

• Cloud : Strong hands-on experience with GCP and AWS; cloud networking, IAM, compute, storage, databases, security, and managed services.

• Microservices : Strong understanding of microservices architecture, design patterns, REST APIs, API gateways, messaging, and event-driven architecture.

• Containers : Strong experience with Docker, Kubernetes (GKE/EKS), Helm, service mesh, and container security.