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We are looking for an experienced Senior Platform Engineer to design, implement, secure, and operate scalable cloud-native platforms using Microsoft Azure and Kubernetes. This role focuses on building highly available, resilient, secure, and well-governed production environments while driving automation, observability, infrastructure-as-code, and platform engineering best practices.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, deploy, and manage Microsoft Azure infrastructure and AKS/Kubernetes platforms.
- Implement and maintain Disaster Recovery, backup, restore, and business continuity solutions.
- Build infrastructure automation using Terraform, Helm, Azure DevOps, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Manage Kubernetes networking, ingress, storage, namespaces, resource limits, security, and platform configurations.
- Implement observability solutions using Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and related monitoring technologies.
- Manage TLS certificates, secrets, access controls, RBAC, and platform security mechanisms.
- Establish cloud and Kubernetes governance covering resource organization, naming, tagging, security policies, and operational standards.
- Define Infrastructure-as-Code and CI/CD governance, including reusable Terraform modules, state management, code reviews, approval gates, environment promotion, and artifact management.
- Participate in architecture and technical design reviews for platforms, applications, integrations, and infrastructure changes.
- Drive security and compliance readiness through vulnerability remediation, access reviews, security baselines, audit controls, and policy enforcement.
- Define and monitor platform availability, SLIs, SLOs, capacity, performance, and operational health.
- Lead incident and problem management, including root-cause analysis, corrective actions, and prevention of recurring issues.
- Perform capacity planning, performance optimization, and cloud cost optimization / FinOps activities.
- Own DR testing, RTO/RPO validation, backup and recovery standards, and periodic recovery exercises.
- Plan and execute platform migrations, infrastructure upgrades, and cloud transformation initiatives.
- Evaluate emerging platform technologies, conduct POCs, and establish approved patterns for production adoption.
- Maintain technical documentation including HLDs, LLDs, architecture diagrams, SOPs, runbooks, troubleshooting guides, and DR procedures.
- Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and knowledge sharing across platform engineering teams.
What Makes You a Great Fit
- 5+ years of experience in platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, DevOps, SRE, or related roles.
- Strong hands-on expertise in Microsoft Azure and Kubernetes, particularly AKS.
- Strong experience with Docker, Helm, Terraform, and Azure DevOps / CI/CD.
- Good understanding of Azure networking, including VNets, NSGs, Private Endpoints, and Azure Firewall.
- Experience implementing observability using Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, or similar platforms.
- Strong knowledge of Linux, Bash scripting, Git, and GitOps practices.
- Proven experience with Disaster Recovery, backup/restore, RTO/RPO planning, and recovery testing.
- Strong understanding of Kubernetes security, governance, RBAC, policy enforcement, and Azure Policy.
- Experience establishing reusable Infrastructure-as-Code patterns and platform engineering standards.
- Strong understanding of CI/CD governance, release controls, environment promotion, and source-control standards.
- Experience working with databases such as PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MySQL, or Azure SQL.
- Strong knowledge of incident management, problem management, RCA, capacity planning, performance optimization, and cloud cost management.
- Experience working in security-, compliance-, audit-, or governance-controlled environments.
- Ability to create and maintain HLDs, LLDs, architecture diagrams, operational runbooks, SOPs, and technical documentation.
- Strong experience participating in architecture and technical design reviews.
- Excellent troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving capabilities.
- Strong technical leadership, mentoring, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Experience in banking or other regulated industries would be an advantage.
- Strong understanding of high availability, production operations, platform modernization, and cloud transformation initiatives.
Additional Details
- Salary Range: Rs 2600000 - Rs 4500000 (INR 26-45 LPA)
- Experience Required: 5+ years
- Location: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
- Job Type: Full-time
