Senior Platform Engineer

* The Senior Platform Engineer will design, implement, and operate cloud-native platforms on Microsoft Azure. * The role focuses on Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, automation, observability, security, and Disaster Recovery, ensuring highly available, secure, and resilient production environments.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, deploy, and manage Azure infrastructure and AKS clusters.
• Implement and maintain Disaster Recovery, backup, and business continuity solutions.
• Automate infrastructure and deployments using Terraform, Helm, and Azure DevOps.
• Manage Kubernetes networking, ingress, storage, and security.
• Deploy and maintain observability platforms including Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki.
• Manage TLS certificates, secrets, and platform security.
• Support production environments, troubleshoot critical incidents, and drive root cause analysis.
• Plan and execute platform migrations and infrastructure upgrades.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, architecture diagrams, HLD/LLD, SOPs, operational runbooks, troubleshooting guides, and Disaster Recovery procedures.
• Define and maintain platform engineering standards, policies, governance frameworks, and best practices across Azure and Kubernetes environments.
• Establish cloud and Kubernetes governance covering RBAC, naming and tagging standards, resource organization, security controls, namespaces, resource limits, ingress, secrets, and storage.
• Define Infrastructure-as-Code and CI/CD governance, including reusable Terraform modules, code review standards, state management, pipeline controls, approval gates, environment promotion, and artifact/version management.
• Participate in architecture and technical design reviews for new platforms, applications, integrations, and infrastructure changes.
• Drive platform security and compliance readiness through security baselines, vulnerability remediation, access reviews, secrets/certificate management, audit controls, and policy enforcement.
• Define and track platform availability, SLIs/SLOs, capacity, performance, and operational health.
• Drive incident and problem management practices, including root cause analysis, corrective actions, and prevention of recurring incidents.
• Perform capacity planning, performance optimization, and cloud cost optimization across platform infrastructure.
• Own DR testing, RTO/RPO validation, backup/restore standards, recovery procedures, and evidence from periodic recovery exercises.
• Evaluate new platform technologies, conduct POCs, and establish approved patterns before production adoption.
• Provide technical leadership, knowledge sharing, and mentoring to engineers on Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, security, and platform operations.

Required Skills:

• Microsoft Azure
• Kubernetes (AKS/OpenShift)
• Docker & Hel
• Terraform
• Azure DevOps / CI/CD
• Prometheus, Grafana, Loki
• Azure Networking (VNets, NSGs, Private Endpoints, Firewall)
• Linux & Bash scripting
• Disaster Recovery, Backup & Restore strategies
• Experience with PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MySQL, or Azure SQL
• Cloud & Platform Governance
• Kubernetes Security, Governance & Policy Enforcement
• Azure Policy, RBAC & Security Controls
• Infrastructure-as-Code standards and reusable Terraform patterns
• CI/CD governance, release controls, and environment promotion strategies
• Technical documentation (HLD, LLD, SOPs, runbooks, and architecture diagrams)
• Architecture design and technical design reviews
• Incident, Problem & Root Cause Analysis management
• Capacity planning, performance optimization & FinOps / cloud cost optimization
• Security, compliance, audit controls & operational governance
• RTO/RPO planning, DR testing, backup and recovery governance
• Git / GitOps practices and source control standards
• Technical leadership, mentoring, and cross-functional collaboration

Preferred:

• Banking or regulated industry experience
• Strong understanding of High Availability, Disaster Recovery, and production operations
• Experience defining enterprise platform standards, policies, and governance frameworks.
• Experience working in security- and compliance-controlled environments.
• Experience leading technical design reviews, platform modernization, and cloud transformation initiatives.