Platform Engineer | Cloud Platform Specialist

Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced Platform Engineer and Cloud Platform Specialist to architect, construct, and optimize scalable cloud environments and internal infrastructure. This full-time, on-site role requires collaboration with software, DevOps, security, and IT teams to enhance reliability, automation, deployment efficiency, security, and developer experience across our platforms.

Primary Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and sustain scalable cloud platforms and infrastructure ecosystems.
• Deliver dependable and secure platform services supporting engineering and application teams.
• Administer cloud infrastructure on AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, or hybrid models.
• Utilize Infrastructure as Code (IaC) techniques using Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi or equivalent tools.
• Create and maintain CI/CD pipelines automating application and infrastructure deployments.
• Develop reusable infrastructure modules, templates, and platform services.
• Automate provisioning, configuration, deployment, monitoring, and operations.
• Manage containerized setups leveraging Docker, Kubernetes, or similar container platforms.
• Architect and maintain Kubernetes clusters with focus on workloads, networking, storage, and security.
• Define and propagate scalable platform standards and best engineering practices organization-wide.
• Monitor platform metrics such as availability, performance, capacity, reliability, and resource utilization.
• Diagnose infrastructure, networking, platform, and deployment challenges effectively.
• Implement observability stacks including logs, metrics, tracing, alerts, and overall system health checks.
• Partner with Software Engineering to optimize developer workflows and deployment methodologies.
• Create self-service tooling and platform features empowering engineering efficiency.
• Support cloud migrations, digital modernization, and application transformation initiatives.
• Design resilient, fault-tolerant, and high-availability cloud infrastructures.
• Implement disaster recovery, backup, and business continuity protocols.
• Work with cybersecurity teams to secure cloud architecture including identity/access management, secrets, encryption, and network security.
• Apply and maintain security and compliance standards throughout platform lifecycles.
• Oversee cloud resource utilization and assist in infrastructure cost optimization.
• Establish governance for cloud environments, accounts, and resource configurations.
• Perform capacity planning and optimize performance on cloud and platform infrastructure.
• Engage in incident response, root cause analyses, and post-mortem improvements.
• Maintain comprehensive technical documentation including runbooks, architecture diagrams, and operational procedures.
• Assess emerging cloud services, tools, automation techniques, and engineering practices.
• Support platform upgrades, migration projects, and lifecycle management.
• Define and track operational and reliability metrics such as latency, availability, deployment frequency, and recovery times.
• Continuously enhance platform automation, scalability, security, and reliability to improve developer experience.

Required Qualifications and Skills

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, Software or Computer Engineering, or related disciplines.
• Prior experience in Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering roles.
• Extensive expertise with cloud platforms such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
• Deep understanding of cloud architectures encompassing networking, compute, storage, databases, and security services.
• Proven hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code technologies like Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi.
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD tools and modern software delivery best practices.
• Proficiency in container technologies including Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm.
• Solid Linux OS and systems administration skills.
• Good grasp of networking fundamentals: DNS, TCP/IP, HTTP, load balancing, firewalls, VPNs, and routing.
• Experience deploying monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability solutions; familiarity with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, OpenTelemetry, Datadog is advantageous.
• Competence in scripting or programming with Python, Bash, Go, PowerShell or similar languages.
• Strong familiarity with Git, version control, branching models, and infrastructure automation.
• Knowledge of cloud security principles including IAM, secrets management, encryption, and security best practices.
• Experience designing high availability and fault-tolerant infrastructure.
• Understanding of disaster recovery, backup solutions, resilience planning, and business continuity concepts.
• Excellent troubleshooting, debugging, and root cause analysis capabilities.
• Experience with Agile, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering or platform engineering methodologies.
• Strong knowledge of system reliability, scalability, performance monitoring, and capacity planning.
• Excellent technical communication and documentation skills.
• Ability to collaborate cross-functionally with developers, architects, security, IT, and business stakeholders.
• Strong analytical and independent problem-solving skills within a dynamic technical environment.
• Industry certifications in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud), Kubernetes, or related areas are a plus.

What We Provide

• Competitive salary package along with comprehensive employee benefits.
• Chance to design and operate cutting-edge, large-scale cloud platforms.
• Exposure to cloud-native technologies, Kubernetes, automation, and platform engineering domains.
• Opportunities to develop skills in cloud architecture, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, infrastructure, and security.
• Access to modern cloud infrastructure and engineering tools.
• Leadership opportunities in infrastructure automation and platform modernization.
• Experience in complex enterprise technology environments.
• Support for professional certification pursuits in cloud, Kubernetes, and DevOps fields.
• A collaborative engineering culture focused on automation, reliability, and continuous improvement.
• Recognition for contributions enhancing platform performance, security, stability, and developer productivity.
• Clear career path towards senior roles such as Senior Platform Engineer, Cloud Platform Lead, Platform Engineering Manager, Cloud Infrastructure Manager, or Head of Platform Engineering.