Role Overview :

We are seeking an experienced Lead Platform Engineer to define and lead our organizations CI/CD, platform automation, and infrastructure strategies.

As a senior technical leader, you will mentor teams, shape best practices, and drive infrastructure solutions that enable rapid, reliable, and secure application delivery across cloud-native environments.

Key Responsibilities :

Strategic Leadership & Collaboration :

- Define and execute DevOps and platform automation strategies aligned with organizational goals.

- Mentor, coach, and inspire senior and junior DevOps engineers; promote best practices and continuous improvement.

- Partner with engineering, security, and platform teams to architect reliable and scalable cloud environments, pipelines, and operational tooling.

Build & Optimize CI/CD Pipelines :

- Architect and oversee enterprise-grade CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, Argo Workflows, Tekton, or similar.

- Improve build, test, and deployment automation processes, ensuring high performance and minimal downtime.

- Standardize pipelines with reusable templates, code quality checks, and automated rollback mechanisms.

Infrastructure as Code & Platform Automation :

- Lead design and implementation of infrastructure automation using Terraform, CloudFormation, or equivalent tools.

- Manage container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes (EKS or on-prem) with GitOps practices (ArgoCD, Flux).

- Automate environment provisioning, configuration management, and secret management to support scalable platforms.

SDLC & Release Management :

- Own and refine SDLC workflows, ensuring seamless, automated, and secure software releases.

- Implement comprehensive monitoring, alerting, and observability for CI/CD pipelines and platform health.

- Enforce security, RBAC policies, and compliance standards throughout the SDLC.

Security & Compliance :

- Enforce secure development practices, role-based access, least-privilege principles, and secrets management.

- Integrate security testing, vulnerability management, and code analysis within pipelines.

Communication & Stakeholder Engagement :

- Lead cross-team collaboration on platform improvements, automation standards, and best practices.

- Document architecture decisions, operational runbooks, and pipeline configurations for transparency and onboarding.

Required Skills And Qualifications :

- 7+ years in DevOps, site reliability engineering.

- Proficiency in scripting (Python, Shell, Go), automation, and cloud infrastructure automation (Terraform, CloudFormation).

- Deep knowledge of CI/CD tools : Jenkins, Argo Workflows, Tekton, GitHub Actions, or similar.

- Strong experience with Kubernetes, containerization (Docker), and cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure).

- Expertise in infrastructure as code, configuration management, secrets management, and security automation.

- Proven track record of designing scalable, reliable, and secure platform solutions.

- Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

Good to Have :

- Experience with enterprise developer portals, portal integrations, or platform APIs.

- Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus and Grafana.

- Exposure to event-driven architectures or messaging systems like Kafka, SNS/SQS.

- Knowledge of compliance standards, data encryption, and audit frameworks.