Senior Platform Engineer

About the role

As a Senior Platform Engineer you will be a senior technical contributor responsible for the Kubernetes‑based enterprise platform that supports application development, deployment and management across environments. You will design and implement platform capabilities, lead troubleshooting, and raise the engineering bar while partnering with product and engineering teams.

Key responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate stable and efficient platform infrastructure that optimizes service delivery across environments.
• Drive a consistent DevOps approach across the team, improving every phase of the delivery process.
• Build, evolve, and own CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation, and help other teams adopt them.
• Deploy and manage development, testing, and automation tooling along with the underlying platform infrastructure.
• Lead complex troubleshooting efforts, diagnose platform issues, optimize performance, and implement durable improvements.
• Set up and manage cloud‑based tools, infrastructure, services, and environments required for development, testing, and production.
• Own major incidents end‑to‑end: coordinate response, conduct root‑cause analysis, implement fixes, and improve reliability.
• Strengthen platform and application security by applying security standards, hardening defaults, and managing identity and access.
• Partner with architects to align platform capabilities with broader technical direction and architectural standards.
• Assist with backlog refinement, ensure clear acceptance criteria, and deliver on commitments.
• Mentor other platform engineers, raise the bar on code, design, and operational quality.
• Create and maintain clear documentation for platform components, runbooks, and engineering standards.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, or a related field.
• Senior‑level experience in platform or infrastructure engineering, with a strong focus on reliability, scalability, and security.

Required skills

• Kubernetes
• CI/CD pipelines
• DevOps practices
• Cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Automation tools
• Security hardening and best practices
• Identity and Access Management (authentication and authorization)