Role : Alibaba Cloud Platform Engineer
Platform Engineering · Alibaba Cloud · Infrastructure as Code · CI/CD
Experience: 10+ years
Location: Remote
Duties:
Design, provision, and maintain enterprise cloud infrastructure on Alibaba Cloud using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles.
Develop and maintain robust CI/CD automation pipelines for continuous deployment, automated testing, and release management.
Architect and manage containerized environments using Kubernetes (ACK) and Docker, ensuring high availability, scalability, and resilience.
Implement platform observability, monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions to maintain system health and proactively address performance issues.
Drive cloud security, identity management (IAM), compliance, and governance best practices across all environments.
Build automated self-service developer tools and platform APIs to accelerate application deployment and engineering velocity.
Perform cloud cost optimization (FinOps), capacity planning, and architecture refinement to maximize performance and efficiency.
Collaborate with development teams to troubleshoot complex infrastructure, network, and application deployment challenges.
Establish operational readiness standards, incident response frameworks, and site reliability engineering (SRE) practices.
Maintain comprehensive documentation for platform architecture, operational procedures, and automation scripts.
Must Haves
5+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).
Hands-on expertise in Alibaba Cloud (ECS, ACK, VPC, RAM, SLS).
Strong proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, Pulumi, or CloudFormation/ROS.
Hands-on experience with container orchestration using Kubernetes (ACK) and Docker.
Demonstrated expertise in CI/CD pipeline development using tools like GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or ArgoCD.
Proficiency in scripting and programming languages such as Python, Bash, Go, or Shell.
Solid understanding of cloud networking (VPC, DNS, Load Balancers, Firewalls, VPN) and cloud security practices.
Strong problem-solving skills with experience in troubleshooting distributed systems and cloud infrastructure.
