Lead Platform Engineer

IQWorks; Mumbai; On-site; INR 400,000 - 700,000; Full time

Job summary

IQWorks is seeking a Lead Platform Engineer to own the infrastructure and delivery platform powering our product, spanning cloud, on-premise, and edge deployments. You will design CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and observability foundations, while keeping performance, scale, and cost in check as usage grows.

You will stay hands-on, writing infrastructure code, automating operations, debugging production, and mentoring engineers.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in platform, infrastructure, DevOps, or SRE roles
• Strong experience with cloud infrastructure and infrastructure-as-code
• Hands-on experience with containers and orchestration, CI/CD pipelines, and release automation
• Solid grasp of reliability practices - observability, alerting, incident response, and SLOs
• Experience packaging and deploying software into varied environments (on-premise/edge)
• Proficiency in Go, Python, or TypeScript
• Ability to work with engineering, security, and founders in a fast-moving startup
• Effective use of AI as a force multiplier across platform workflows

Responsibilities

• Own cloud infrastructure end to end - provisioning, networking, scaling, and cost efficiency, all defined as code
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and release automation
• Own reliability and observability across the platform - monitoring, alerting, logging, incident response, and SLOs
• Design repeatable on-premise and edge deployments for enterprises
• Improve developer experience - local environments, build and preview pipelines, internal tooling
• Own performance and scale - capacity planning, load testing, tuning
• Partner with security to harden the platform - secrets management, least-privilege access
• Set platform standards and mentor engineers on infrastructure and operations

Skills

Cloud infrastructure

Infrastructure-as-code

Containers & orchestration

CI/CD pipelines

Reliability practices

On-premise & edge deployments

Go, Python, or TypeScript

AI as force multiplier

Communication with engineers & leaders

Tools

Kubernetes

CI/CD tooling

Job description

About The Role

As a Lead Platform Engineer at IQWorks, you will own the infrastructure and delivery platform the entire product runs on. You will build the CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, reliability, and observability foundations that let the team ship quickly and safely, and you will own performance, scaling, and cost as usage grows. A distinctive part of this role is delivery beyond the cloud: packaging the platform so enterprises can run it inside their own environment, on-premise and at the edge, without sensitive data ever leaving their infrastructure. You will stay hands-on - writing infrastructure code, automating operations, and debugging production - while setting the platform standards and paved paths the whole engineering team builds on. This is a high-ownership role for someone who treats reliability, developer experience, and clean operations as products in their own right.

About The Role

As a Lead Platform Engineer at IQWorks, you will own the infrastructure and delivery platform the entire product runs on. You will build the CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, reliability, and observability foundations that let the team ship quickly and safely, and you will own performance, scaling, and cost as usage grows. A distinctive part of this role is delivery beyond the cloud: packaging the platform so enterprises can run it inside their own environment, on-premise and at the edge, without sensitive data ever leaving their infrastructure. You will stay hands-on - writing infrastructure code, automating operations, and debugging production - while setting the platform standards and paved paths the whole engineering team builds on. This is a high-ownership role for someone who treats reliability, developer experience, and clean operations as products in their own right.

What You Will Do

• Own cloud infrastructure end to end - provisioning, networking, scaling, and cost efficiency, all defined as code
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and release automation so the team ships quickly, safely, and often
• Own reliability and observability across the platform - monitoring, alerting, logging, incident response, and clear SLOs
• Design repeatable, low-touch on-premise and edge deployments so enterprises can run IQWorks in their own environment with data that never leaves it
• Improve developer experience - local environments, build and preview pipelines, and internal tooling that keep engineers fast
• Own performance and scale - capacity planning, load testing, and tuning as data volumes and customers grow
• Partner with security to harden the platform - secrets management, least-privilege access, and safe-by-default infrastructure
• Set platform standards and mentor engineers on infrastructure, deployment, and operational excellence

What We Are Looking For

• 5+ years in platform, infrastructure, DevOps, or SRE roles, including time owning production systems at scale
• Strong experience with cloud infrastructure and infrastructure-as-code
• Hands-on experience with containers and orchestration, CI/CD pipelines, and release automation
• Solid grasp of reliability practices - observability, alerting, incident response, and SLOs
• Experience packaging and deploying software into varied or customer-controlled environments (on-premise, air-gapped, or edge)
• Proficiency automating and scripting in a language such as Go, Python, or TypeScript
• Effective use of AI as a force multiplier across the platform workflow - writing infrastructure code, automating operations, and triaging incidents - with sharp judgment about where human oversight is essential so reliability and security are never compromised
• Strong communication and the ability to work directly with engineering, security, and founders in a fast-moving startup

Nice to Have

• Experience running multi-tenant SaaS with strict data isolation and predictable performance
• Background delivering on-premise or air-gapped enterprise software to large organisations
• Familiarity with data privacy, security, compliance, or governance domains
• Experience with database operations - backups, tuning, and zero-downtime migrations
• Track record of driving down cloud cost while improving reliability
• Prior experience as an early platform or infrastructure hire at a high-growth startup