Role : Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer

Experience : 5 to 8 Years

Location : Hyderabad, India

Role Summary :

Own the design, build, and maintenance of the Internal Developer Platform (IDPs) self-service tooling and infrastructure-as-code automation. This role is responsible for turning developer-facing self-service requests into provisioned, production-grade AWS/EKS infrastructure.

Key Job Responsibilities :

- Author and maintain Terraform infrastructure-as-code for IDP tooling-triggered provisioning actions.

- Build application bootstrapping and cloud infrastructure definitions using Projen + AWS CDK.

- Integrate Cookiecutter-based project template generation into the IDP's self-service tooling action set.

- Configure JFrog artifact and pipeline integration for IDP tooling-triggered builds.

- Provision and manage AWS EKS as the target compute environment.

- Integrate GitHub Actions (GHA) CI pipeline actions invoked directly by the IDP's self-service tooling.

- Build the read-only mainframe (IBM i/z) catalog entity provider, including metadata and ownership mapping.

Primary & Secondary Skills :

Primary Skills (Must-Have) :

- Backstage.io (plugins, IDP tooling/actions, TypeScript/JavaScript/React)

- Terraform (IaC authoring)

- Projen + AWS CDK

- AWS EKS workload provisioning

- Kubernetes strong (pods, deployments, services)

- AWS strong (EKS, S3, CloudFront, VPC, IAM)

- CI/CD pipeline design (GitHub Actions)

- Design, orchestrate, and optimize pipelines using Argo Workflows.

Secondary Skills (Good-to-Have) :

- Cookiecutter

- JFrog (artifact/pipeline integration)

- Docker & Helm

- Observability basics (Prometheus/Grafana)

- Mainframe (IBM i/z) read-only catalog integration

Key Qualifications :

- Bachelors degree in computer science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

- 5 to 8 years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Cloud/Infrastructure Engineering.

- Hands-on production experience with Terraform and AWS CDK (or equivalent IaC frameworks).

- Strong working experience with Kubernetes/EKS in production environments; CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator) preferred.

- Prior experience building on or extending Backstage / internal developer platforms (IDPs); Certified Backstage Associate (CBA) is a plus.

- AWS certification (Solutions Architect / DevOps Engineer) preferred.