Staff Platform Engineer - DevOps

One of our IT Product based Client is looking for Staff Platform Engineer.

Job Title : Staff Platform Engineer

Location : Hyderabad, India or Remote

Experience - 10 to 16 Years

Notice- 1 Month or less

Mode of work : Remote

What you'll be doing :

- Design, deploy, and manage Kubernetes clusters to orchestrate containerized applications.

- Design, deploy, and manage Backstage Scaffolders to alleviate toil from internal engineering teams.

- Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate software build, test, and deployment processes.

- Utilize Terraform for infrastructure as code to provision and manage AWS resources.

- Implement and manage Airflow workflows for data pipeline orchestration and scheduling.

- Configure and maintain Istio service mesh for microservices communication, traffic management, and security.

- Collaborate with development teams to optimize application performance, scalability, and reliability.

- Monitor and troubleshoot production systems, ensuring high availability and performance.

- Implement security best practices and compliance standards across the infrastructure.

- Provide support and guidance to development teams on infrastructure-related issues and best practices.

- Document infrastructure configurations, processes, and procedures.

- Empowering development teams to clear operational hurdles by setting best practices, creating reusable templates and modules, and writing clear documentation in a quickly evolving "shift left" culture.

About You :

- You are a strong analytical and problem solving skills

- You are self-motivated learner

- You are eager to learn new technologies

- You are receptive to constructive feedback

- You are confident and articulate with excellent written and verbal communication skills

- You are thrive in an environment that's fast paced and focused on "shifting left"

Skills & Education :

- Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Mathematics, Statistics from a top engineering institution.

- 12+ years of experience in a similar role, with a strong focus on cloud infrastructure and DevOps practices.

- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, including cluster setup, configuration, and management.

- Proficiency in building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitLab CI/CD, or similar.

- Familiarity with templating using IDPs such as Backstage

- Solid understanding of infrastructure as code principles and experience with Terraform.

- Experience with AWS services, including EKS, S3, RDS, Lambda, IAM, etc.

- Hands-on experience with GCP services, including GKE, BigQuery, IAM, Networking etc.

- Familiarity with Airflow for workflow orchestration and scheduling.

- Knowledge of Istio or similar service mesh technologies for microservices architecture.

- Strong scripting skills in languages such as Bash, Python, or similar.

- Experience with monitoring and logging tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog etc.

- Experience utilizing CNCF tools such as Flux, Argo Rollouts, and External Secrets

- Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.

- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with a strong product mindset.

- Nice to have experience in designing/implementing ETL data pipelines using open source platforms.

- Nice to have experience with other cloud providers such as Azure.