Infrastructure Platform Engineer

Job Summary

We are looking for a highly skilled Senior Infrastructure Platform Engineer to design, build, and optimize scalable infrastructure platforms supporting mission-critical applications. The ideal candidate will have deep experience in systems engineering, automation, cloud-native tooling, and infrastructure reliability. You will work closely with DevOps, Cloud, and SRE teams to build robust, secure, and high-performing platforms.

Key Responsibilities

Platform Engineering & Architecture

• Architect, build, and maintain scalable infrastructure platforms using cloud and on-prem technologies.
• Design standardized platform components including compute, storage, networking, and container infrastructure.
• Drive platform modernization initiatives using cloud-native technologies, automation, and IaC.

Infrastructure Automation

• Develop automated provisioning and configuration using Terraform, Ansible, or similar tools.
• Standardize reusable infrastructure modules, pipelines, and deployment patterns.
• Enable self-service capabilities for development teams.

System Administration

• Manage Linux/Windows servers, virtualization (VMware/KVM), container platforms (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Tune performance for large-scale distributed systems and microservices environments.
• Conduct capacity planning, monitoring, and incident response.

Observability & Operations

• Implement end-to-end monitoring (metrics, logs, traces) using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog, or Splunk.
• Ensure platform reliability, resilience, and high availability.
• Drive root-cause analysis and improve operational excellence.

Security & Compliance

• Enforce infrastructure security best practices.
• Implement patching, vulnerability remediation, role-based access, and secrets management.
• Work with security teams to meet compliance standards (ISO, SOC2, PCI, etc.).

Collaboration & Leadership

• Partner with DevOps, cloud, SRE, and development teams to improve platform capabilities.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to shared engineering practices.
• Document processes, standards, and architectural improvements.

Required Skills

• Strong expertise in Linux administration, shell scripting, and system performance tuning.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/Google Cloud Platform).
• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, and container networking.
• Experience with Terraform, Ansible, or other IaC tools.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows.
• Good understanding of networking: VPC, subnets, load balancers, DNS, VPN, firewalls.
• Strong troubleshooting, automation, and problem-solving skills.