Platform Engineer | Cloud Platform Specialist

About the Role

We are looking for a skilled Platform Engineer with expertise in cloud platforms to plan, construct, maintain, and enhance scalable cloud infrastructures and internal systems. This position involves close collaboration with Software Engineering, DevOps, Security, and IT departments to boost platform stability, automation, deployment processes, security, and developer productivity throughout the company.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect, build, and sustain scalable cloud platforms and infrastructure setups.
• Develop dependable and secure platform services to support application and engineering units.
• Oversee cloud environments across AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, or hybrid models.
• Apply Infrastructure as Code practices via tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi, or similar solutions.
• Create and manage CI/CD pipelines for seamless application and infrastructure deployment.
• Design reusable infrastructure components, modules, templates, and platform services.
• Automate provisioning, configuration, deployment, system monitoring, and operational activities.
• Handle containerized platforms utilizing Docker, Kubernetes, or equivalent technologies.
• Design and manage Kubernetes clusters including workloads, networking, storage, and security configurations.
• Set scalable platform standards and engineering best practices for development teams.
• Monitor platform uptime, performance metrics, capacity, reliability, and utilization of resources.
• Diagnose infrastructure, network, application-platform, and deployment-related challenges.
• Implement observability tools covering logs, metrics, tracing, alerts, and system health monitoring.
• Collaborate with software developers to optimize workflows and deployment strategies.
• Create self-service tools and platform capabilities enabling efficient engineering operations.
• Support modernization of applications, cloud migration processes, and digital transformation initiatives.
• Design infrastructures that are highly available, fault-tolerant, and resilient to disasters.
• Implement backup, recovery, disaster recovery, and business continuity strategies.
• Work closely with cybersecurity teams to deploy cloud security measures and maintain secure platform architectures.
• Manage identities, access permissions, secrets, encryption methods, network security, and infrastructure policies.
• Ensure compliance and security requirements are upheld throughout the platform's lifecycle.
• Track cloud resource consumption and assist in infrastructure cost management efforts.
• Establish governance policies for cloud accounts, subscriptions, environments, assets, and configurations.
• Conduct capacity planning and optimize performance of cloud and platform infrastructure.
• Participate in incident management including response, root cause analysis, and postmortem improvements.
• Maintain thorough technical documentation, architecture diagrams, runbooks, operating procedures, and platform standards.
• Evaluate emerging cloud services, infrastructure technologies, automation tools, and platform engineering methodologies.
• Support platform upgrades, technology transitions, and lifecycle management tasks.
• Define and monitor operational metrics such as availability, latency, deployment rates, and recovery benchmarks.
• Continuously advance automation, scalability, security, reliability, and the developer experience of the platform.

Candidate Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Prior experience in Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or related roles.
• Proven expertise with cloud service providers including AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Deep understanding of cloud architectures encompassing networking, compute, storage, databases, and security features.
• Hands-on use of Infrastructure as Code frameworks such as Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi, or equivalent.
• Experience with CI/CD systems and contemporary software delivery methodologies.
• Proficiency with container orchestration and management tools like Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, or similar.
• Sound knowledge of Linux environments and system administration tasks.
• Understanding of networking technologies including DNS, TCP/IP, HTTP, load balancing, firewalls, VPNs, and routing.
• Experience setting up monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability frameworks.
• Familiarity with monitoring and logging platforms including Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, or similar is a plus.
• Strong skills in scripting or programming languages such as Python, Bash, Go, PowerShell, or comparable.
• Experience with version control systems like Git, including branching and infrastructure automation.
• Knowledge of cloud security principles including IAM, secrets management, encryption, and best practices.
• Capability to design highly available and fault-resistant cloud infrastructure setups.
• Understanding of disaster recovery, backup strategies, resilience, and business continuity planning.
• Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis abilities.
• Awareness of Agile, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or platform engineering methodologies.
• Understanding of system reliability, scalability, performance optimization, and capacity management.
• Excellent documentation skills and ability to communicate technical concepts clearly.
• Ability to collaborate effectively across developers, architects, security, IT teams, and stakeholders.
• Strong analytical and independent problem-solving capacity in a fast-paced environment.
• Relevant certifications in AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Kubernetes, or equivalent credentials are an advantage.

Benefits and Opportunities

• Competitive compensation package with comprehensive benefits.
• Involvement with designing and running advanced cloud platforms at scale.
• Hands-on exposure to cloud-native technologies, Kubernetes, automation, and platform engineering.
• Opportunities for professional development in cloud architecture, DevOps, SRE, infrastructure, and security domains.
• Access to modern cloud engineering tools and platforms.
• Leadership roles in infrastructure automation and platform modernization projects.
• Experience working with complex enterprise technology landscapes.
• Support for obtaining industry certifications in cloud, Kubernetes, DevOps, and more.
• A collaborative work environment that values automation, reliability, and continuous improvement.
• Recognition programs based on enhancing platform performance, stability, security, and developer output.
• Clear career advancement tracks toward Senior Platform Engineer, Cloud Platform Lead, Platform Engineering Manager, Cloud Infrastructure Manager, or Head of Platform Engineering.