# Platform ArchitectGood co IndiaGPosted on October 7, 2026---Experience5 - 10 yrsSalary (CTC)₹35L - ₹60LJob LocationIndiaVacancy1DesignationPlatform ArchitectJob TypeNot specified---## Job Description**Role & responsibilities*** Design and lead the architecture of scalable, secure, highly available, and resilient enterprise platforms.* Define platform architecture, technology standards, reference architectures, and engineering best practices.* Translate business and technical requirements into scalable platform solutions and technical roadmaps.* Design and implement cloud-native platforms across AWS, Azure, GCP, or hybrid environments.* Build and maintain containerized and Kubernetes-based platforms for application deployment and operations.* Establish Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, automation, and self-service capabilities for engineering teams.* Design platform services supporting microservices, APIs, event-driven architectures, and distributed applications.* Drive platform scalability, reliability, performance, availability, and cost optimization.* Implement observability, monitoring, logging, alerting, and operational dashboards across platform services.* Establish platform security controls including IAM, secrets management, encryption, network security, and Zero Trust principles.* Design disaster recovery, backup, business continuity, and fault-tolerant solutions.* Collaborate with software engineering, DevOps, SRE, security, data, product, and infrastructure teams.* Identify opportunities to automate repetitive processes and improve developer productivity.* Lead platform modernization, cloud migration, and infrastructure transformation initiatives.* Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend solutions based on technical requirements, business value, and operational impact.* Conduct architecture reviews, technical assessments, and platform health reviews.* Create and maintain architecture documentation, technical standards, system diagrams, and operational guidelines.* Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership across platform and infrastructure teams.**Preferred candidate profile*** 5 to 10 years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, cloud architecture, DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering.* Proven experience designing and implementing enterprise-scale cloud and technology platforms.* Strong expertise in AWS, Azure, or GCP, with hands-on experience in cloud architecture and services.* Strong knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, container orchestration, and cloud-native technologies.* Experience with Terraform or other Infrastructure as Code tools and automated infrastructure provisioning.* Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, Git, Linux, networking, load balancing, and automation.* Experience designing distributed systems, microservices, APIs, event-driven architectures, and platform services.* Strong knowledge of databases, caching, messaging systems, and data-storage technologies.* Experience with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, OpenTelemetry, or equivalent platforms.* Strong understanding of cloud and platform security, IAM, encryption, secrets management, network security, and compliance.* Experience designing high-availability, fault-tolerant, disaster-recovery, and business-continuity solutions.* Strong understanding of scalability, performance engineering, reliability, and cloud cost optimization.* Proficiency in scripting or programming languages such as Python, Go, Bash, or similar.* Experience building internal developer platforms, self-service infrastructure, or reusable platform components is an advantage.* Strong architectural thinking, analytical, problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.* Ability to lead cross-functional technical initiatives and mentor engineering teams.* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field; Master's degree is an advantage.* Relevant certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect, Azure Solutions Architect, Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect, CKA/CKS, or TOGAF are preferred.