Senior Platform Engineer
Job Summary
We are seeking a highly skilled Platform Infrastructure Engineer with strong experience across both cloud and on-premises environments. This role focuses on designing building and operating enterprise-grade platform services with an emphasis on enabling cloud-like capabilities in hybrid or fully on-prem setups.
The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in infrastructure engineering distributed systems and platform automation with a proven ability to deliver scalable reliable and production-ready solutions.
The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in infrastructure engineering distributed systems and platform automation with a proven ability to deliver scalable reliable and production-ready solutions.
Key Responsibilities
Platform Architecture & Engineering
- Design deploy and operate enterprise-grade platform services across on-prem and hybrid cloud environments
- Build and maintain cloud-like infrastructure capabilities including compute storage data processing and observability
- Architect scalable and resilient systems to support modern distributed workloads
Infrastructure Automation & DevOps
- Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform
- Drive GitOps practices using tools such as Argo CD
- Design and manage CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions or similar tools
- Automate infrastructure provisioning configuration and deployment workflows
Kubernetes & Distributed Systems
- Administer and operate Kubernetes clusters including advanced workload management and cluster-level operations
- Design and manage distributed storage systems (e.g. S3-compatible solutions such as MinIO)
- Deploy and maintain distributed caching systems (e.g. Redis Memcached)
- Implement and manage on-premise big data platforms (e.g. Hadoop ecosystem)
Required Qualifications
- Proven experience in platform or infrastructure engineering roles across cloud and on-prem environments
- Strong hands-on expertise in:
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
- GitOps practices (Argo CD)
- CI/CD pipeline automation (GitHub Actions or equivalent)
- Kubernetes (advanced usage and cluster administration)
- Experience building and operating distributed systems including storage and caching layers
- Hands-on experience setting up and managing big data infrastructure (e.g. Hadoop)
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with observability and monitoring stacks:
- Prometheus and Grafana
- OpenTelemetry Loki or similar tools
- Familiarity with local artifact registries (e.g. Nexus or equivalent)
- Strong troubleshooting skills across hypervisor OS and infrastructure performance layers
- Experience with data backup and recovery strategies
- Ability to perform capacity planning and scalability forecasting
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
About Company
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