Senior DevOps Platform Engineer

Job Title: Senior engineer (SDE-2)– Platform Engineering Location: Bengaluru Employment Type: Full-time Team: Platform Engineering About the Role: We are looking for a passionate and hands-on DevOps Engineer to join our Platform Engineering team and accelerate our platform modernization journey. This role is ideal for engineers who thrive in automation-heavy environments and want to contribute to the evolution of scalable, secure and intelligent infrastructure platforms. You will work on next-gen cloud-native platforms, implement AI-powered automation and help build self-healing, resilient systems that support our applications at scale. Key Responsibilities - Manage platform modernization initiatives including containerization, service mesh adoption and migration to microservices and serverless infrastructure. - Design and implement robust CI/CD pipelines and self-service DevOps platforms to streamline software delivery across environments. - Develop and manage Infrastructure as a Code (IaaC) using tools like Terraform or CloudFormation for scalable and repeatable deployments. - Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration management and operations using tools like Ansible, Chef or Puppet. - Leverage AI/ML-driven automation for predictive alerting, anomaly detection, auto-scaling and intelligent incident response. Build intelligent, self-healing systems focused on resilience, cost optimization and performance forecasting in public cloud environments. - Drive observability by establishing standards for monitoring, logging and alerting using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry and AIOps platforms. - Embed security and compliance into DevOps workflows by adopting DevSecOps practices throughout the software development lifecycle. - Evaluate emerging technologies and methodologies to improve system reliability, developer experience and platform scalability. - Participate in SRE on-call rotations, production support and post-incident reviews to continuously improve system resilience. - Build internal tools and automation solutions to enhance platform observability and operational efficiency. - Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks and lead root cause analysis efforts for critical incidents. - Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, architecture and security teams to drive best practices and architectural alignment. - Support disaster recovery planning, backup strategy implementation and compliance initiatives (e.g., SOC2, ISO). - Mentor junior engineers, promote knowledge sharing and foster a culture of engineering excellence. Qualifications - 4–6 years of experience in DevOps, SRE or platform engineering roles with a software engineering mindset. - Hands-on expertise in Kubernetes, Docker and service mesh architectures (Istio, Linkerd). - Expertise in CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, ArgoCD, Spinnaker or similar tools for automating and managing deployment workflows. - Experience with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Loki or Datadog) for monitoring, logging and alerting. - Good understanding of AIOps and ML-driven automation, including anomaly detection, intelligent alerting and predictive incident response - Strong problem-solving and debugging skills, particularly in complex, production-grade distributed systems - Expertise in Infrastructure as a Code (IaaC) using tools like Terraform or Pulumi and proficiency in configuration management with Ansible, Puppet or similar tools. - Familiarity with event-driven architectures using tools like Kafka or cloud-native pub/sub messaging systems. - Good understanding of cloud cost optimization and efficiency practices through automation and resource management. - Experience integrating security scanning and compliance checks into CI/CD pipelines using tools like Trivy, Snyk or arnica. Why Join Us? - Work on impactful infrastructure and DevOps challenges at scale. - Build infrastructure that enables fast, reliable and responsible deployment of AI solutions. - Be part of a culture that champions engineering excellence, ownership and continuous learning. - Help shape the future of DevOps and AI integration in a fast-moving, innovation-focused environment. - Collaborate with architects and DevOps leaders on strategic initiatives. - Be part of a team building intelligent, resilient platforms using cutting-edge DevOps and AI technologies.