Senior Platform Engineer - Cloud & Kubernetes

Job Description :

We are looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to design, implement, and operate cloud-native platforms on Microsoft Azure.

The role focuses on Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, automation, observability, security, and Disaster Recovery, ensuring highly available, secure, and resilient production environments.

Experience Range : 6 - 9 years

Educational Qualifications : B. Tech/B. E

Job Responsibilities :

• Design, deploy, and manage Azure infrastructure and AKS clusters.

• Implement and maintain Disaster Recovery, backup, and business continuity solutions.

• Automate infrastructure and deployments using Terraform, Helm, and Azure DevOps.

• Manage Kubernetes networking, ingress, storage, and security.

• Deploy and maintain observability platforms including Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki.

• Manage TLS certificates, secrets, and platform security.

• Support production environments, troubleshoot critical incidents, and drive root cause analysis.

• Plan and execute platform migrations and infrastructure upgrades.

• Create and maintain technical documentation, architecture diagrams, HLD/LLD, SOPs, operational runbooks, troubleshooting guides, and Disaster Recovery procedures.

• Define and maintain platform engineering standards, policies, governance frameworks, and best practices across Azure and Kubernetes environments.

• Establish cloud and Kubernetes governance covering RBAC, naming and tagging standards, resource organization, security controls, namespaces, resource limits, ingress, secrets, and storage.

• Define Infrastructure-as-Code and CI/CD governance, including reusable Terraform modules, code review standards, state management, pipeline controls, approval gates, environment promotion, and artifact/version management.

• Participate in architecture and technical design reviews for new platforms, applications, integrations, and infrastructure changes.

• Drive platform security and compliance readiness through security baselines, vulnerability remediation, access reviews, secrets/certificate management, audit controls, and policy enforcement.

• Define and track platform availability, SLIs/SLOs, capacity, performance, and operational health.

• Drive incident and problem management practices, including root cause analysis, corrective actions, and prevention of recurring incidents.

• Perform capacity planning, performance optimization, and cloud cost optimization across platform infrastructure.