Lead Platform Engineer (Productivity & Compl)

Damstra Technology; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Ideagen in Hyderabad is seeking a Lead Platform Engineer to shape the Productivity and Compliance platform squad. You will deliver cloud-native infrastructure, automation, and guardrails enabling multiple products to scale securely and efficiently.

As a hands-on technical leader, you’ll drive architecture, mentor engineers, and promote modern AI-assisted engineering practices while ensuring governance and quality across cloud hosting, security, observability, and CI/CD pipelines.

Qualifications

• Hands-on technical leadership and mentorship of platform engineers.
• Experience designing cloud-native infrastructure and IaC tooling.
• Proven ability to drive architectural direction and delivery across teams.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the technical direction for Platform - Productivity and Compliance.
• Design, build, and maintain cloud-native infrastructure using Terraform, Kubernetes, Python, and Go.
• Lead platform architecture decisions across cloud hosting, automation, security, observability, and resilience.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Security, and Operations teams to deliver scalable platform services.
• Coach and mentor Platform Engineers, promoting engineering excellence and continuous improvement.
• Own delivery commitments, manage technical risks, and contribute to roadmap planning.
• Drive infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, GitOps, and automation best practices.
• Champion AI-assisted engineering practices while ensuring governance and quality controls.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Technical direction

Cloud security

Observability

Disaster recovery

Automation

Tools

AWS

Terraform

Kubernetes

Python

Go

CI/CD

GitOps

Job description

Lead Platform Engineer (Productivity & Compl)

About Us

Location- Hyderabad

Level - Team Leader

Department - Product R&D

Working Pattern - Work from Office

Benefits - Benefits at Ideagen

Salary - To be discussed at next stage

At Ideagen, we're building the platforms that enable our product teams to innovate at scale. We're looking for a Lead Platform Engineer to drive the technical direction of our Productivity and Compliance platform engineering squad, delivering the infrastructure, automation, and guardrails that power a growing portfolio of products.

As a hands-on technical leader, you'll shape and deliver the platform capabilities that help engineering teams build, deploy, and operate software securely and efficiently. You'll combine deep technical expertise with leadership and mentoring, ensuring scalable, reliable, and future-ready platform solutions while supporting engineers in adopting modern AI-assisted engineering practices.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the technical direction for Platform - Productivity and Compliance.
• Design, build, and maintain cloud-native infrastructure using Terraform, Kubernetes, Python, and Go.
• Lead platform architecture decisions across cloud hosting, automation, security, observability, and resilience.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Security, and Operations teams to deliver scalable platform services.
• Coach and mentor Platform Engineers, promoting engineering excellence and continuous improvement.
• Own delivery commitments, manage technical risks, and contribute to roadmap planning.
• Drive infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, GitOps, and automation best practices.
• Champion AI-assisted engineering practices while ensuring appropriate governance and quality controls.

Skills and Experience

• Strong platform, cloud, or infrastructure engineering experience.
• Deep expertise in AWS and Infrastructure as Code, particularly Terraform.
• Experience with container platforms, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and Git-based workflows.
• Strong understanding of security, reliability, observability, and disaster recovery principles.
• Proven ability to lead technical direction while remaining hands-on.
• Experience coaching engineers and influencing technical decisions across teams.

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