Infrastructure Platform Engineer (AWS)

Salt; Pune District; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Salt is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate scalable cloud infrastructure across AWS, GCP, and Azure. You will enable engineering teams by building robust platforms, improving automation, and ensuring high availability.

You’ll work on IaC with Terraform and CloudFormation, containerized workloads with Docker and Kubernetes, and help drive reliability, security, and cost optimization in fintech environments.

Qualifications

• 4–6 years of experience in infrastructure or platform engineering roles.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Expertise in Terraform / CloudFormation and cloud-native services.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure on AWS/GCP/Azure.
• Implement and manage IaC using Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar tools.
• Ensure high reliability, security, and observability across environments.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure

Terraform

CloudFormation

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

Programming

Networking

SRE on-call

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

CloudFormation

Job description

We are looking for an experienced Infrastructure Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate scalable, secure, and reliable cloud infrastructure. You will play a key role in enabling engineering teams by building robust platforms to enhance developer productivity, improving automation, and ensuring high availability across environments.

Responsibilities

Infrastructure Platform

• Design, build, and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure on AWS/GCP/Azure.
• Implement and manage Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) using Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar tools.
• Ensure high standards of reliability, security, and observability across all environments.
• Build automation for provisioning, deployments, monitoring, and incident response.
• Operate and improve containerized workloads using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Building internal tools to enhance developer productivity.

Reliability & Operations

• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to meet defined SLAs.
• Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and postmortems.
• Drive platform reliability, scalability, and resilience improvements.
• Partner with application, data, and product engineering teams to understand infrastructure needs.
• Contribute to system design discussions and architectural reviews.
• Ensure timely delivery of stable and cost-efficient infrastructure solutions.

Quality & Best Practices

• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting for infrastructure and pipelines.
• Write automated tests for infrastructure.
• Drive adoption of best practices for cost optimization and scalability.

Qualifications

• 4-6 years of experience in infrastructure or platform engineering roles.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Expertise in Terraform / CloudFormation and cloud-native services.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and orchestration.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language (Python, Go, Ruby or Java).
• Solid understanding of networking, security, and distributed systems.

Required Skills

• Experience with security, compliance, or cloud cost optimization.
• Exposure to SRE practices and production on-call ownership.
• Background in fintech or transaction-heavy systems.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with security, compliance, or cloud cost optimization.
• Exposure to SRE practices and production on-call ownership.
• Background in fintech or transaction-heavy systems.