Senior Platform Engineer:

Experience: 4-5 Years

Key Responsibilities:

Kubernetes & Container Platform:

- Deploy, configure, and manage applications on Kubernetes clusters.

- Develop and maintain Helm Charts for Kubernetes deployments.

- Manage containerised workloads using Docker and Kubernetes best practices.

- Monitor cluster health, performance, resource utilisation, and application availability.

- Configure Kubernetes networking components, including Ingress Controllers, Services, ConfigMaps, Secrets, and Persistent Volumes.

Cloud-Native Development & API Integration:

- Design and implement integrations with cloud-native services and REST APIs.

- Develop automation tools and platform services using Go (Golang), Python, and Shell scripting.

- Build and maintain scalable microservices deployment workflows.

- Integrate authentication, storage, messaging, and monitoring services within cloud-native environments.

Automation & Platform Engineering:

- Develop automation scripts and operational tools to improve engineering productivity.

- Automate infrastructure provisioning and deployment workflows using Infrastructure-as-Code principles.

- Standardise deployment processes across development, QA, staging, and production environments.

- Improve platform reliability through automation, monitoring, and continuous optimisation.

Monitoring, Security & Reliability:

- Implement centralised logging, monitoring, and alerting for applications and infrastructure.

- Ensure secure deployment practices, including certificate, secret, and access management.

- Perform root cause analysis for production issues and implement preventive measures.

- Optimise system performance, scalability, and high availability.

CI/CD & Release Engineering:

- Exposure to CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or equivalent.

- Interest in automating build, test, packaging, and deployment workflows.

- Understanding of deployment strategies such as rolling updates, blue-green deployments, and canary releases.

- Willingness to contribute to release engineering and DevOps automation initiatives.

Required Technical Skills:

Mandatory:

- Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes administration and application deployment.

- Strong programming skills in Go (Golang), Python, and Shell scripting.

- Hands-on experience with Docker and container orchestration.

- Experience in cloud-native application development and REST API integration.

- Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting skills.

- Good understanding of Git workflows and version control.

- Solid knowledge of networking concepts including DNS, TLS/SSL, Load Balancers, and Ingress.

Preferred:

- Exposure to GitHub Actions/GitLab CI/Jenkins

- Helm Charts

- Argo CD / GitOps

- Terraform

- Prometheus & Grafana

- ELK/OpenSearch

- AWS, Azure or GCP

- DevSecOps practices