Platform Engineer

Hevo Data Inc.; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 5,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Hevo Data Inc. in Bengaluru, India, is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer to own reliability, scalability, and observability of the cloud infrastructure that powers our data platform.

You will operate deeply in AWS and Kubernetes and shape the technical direction for the Platform/DevOps function. You will lead end-to-end reliability initiatives, design scalable systems, and coach other platform engineers while collaborating with product teams to embed operational excellence into the software

Qualifications

• 8+ years in DevOps, SRE, or Platform engineering roles, including meaningful time operating at Staff/Lead level.
• Hands-on production Kubernetes at scale experience.
• Strong AWS expertise (EC2, VPC, EKS, RDS, IAM, networking, security groups).
• Proven track record building observability stacks (OTel, Grafana, Telegraf, Influx or similar).
• Strong scripting/automation skills (Python, Go, or Bash).
• Infrastructure-as-code experience (Terraform, Ansible).
• CI/CD pipeline design and ownership (Jenkins or similar).
• Solid networking fundamentals — TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing, VPNs, service mesh.
• Experience owning on-call/incident management and driving a strong postmortem culture.
• Excellent communication skills — able to influence engineering decisions across teams without direct authority.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end reliability, scalability, and performance of production infra on AWS, GCP and Kubernetes.
• Design observability stack with metrics, logs, traces, SLIs/SLOs, and error budgets.
• Lead incident management including on-call rotations and blameless postmortems.
• Drive infrastructure-as-code and own CI/CD pipeline design.
• Operate Kubernetes clusters at scale, including upgrades, autoscaling, and cost optimization.
• Own network architecture and security posture of cloud infrastructure.
• Partner with product engineering to embed reliability into the software lifecycle.
• Mentor platform engineers and set technical direction.
• Own capacity planning and cloud cost optimization.

Skills

Kubernetes at scale

AWS (EC2, VPC, EKS)

Observability stack

Automation scripting (Python/Go/Bash)

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/Ank)

CI/CD design

Networking fundamentals

Incident management

Communication & leadership

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Jenkins

Grafana

Prometheus

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Job description

Hevo's platform moves and transforms data for thousands of customers, around the clock. We're looking for a Staff Platform Engineer to own the reliability, scalability, and observability of the infrastructure that makes that possible — a senior, hands-on engineer who can both operate at depth in AWS and Kubernetes and set technical direction for the broader Platform/DevOps function.

What You'll Do

• Own end-to-end reliability, scalability, and performance of Hevo's production infrastructure on AWS, GCP and Kubernetes
• Design and evolve our observability stack — metrics, logs, traces, alerting, SLIs/SLOs, and error budgets
• Lead incident management: on-call rotations, blameless postmortems, and systematically reducing MTTA/MTTR
• Drive infrastructure-as-code practices (Terraform, Ansible) and own CI/CD pipeline design
• Architect and operate Kubernetes clusters at scale — upgrades, autoscaling, cost optimization, multi-tenant workloads
• Own network architecture and security posture for cloud infrastructure (VPCs, load balancers, service mesh, zero-trust networking)
• Partner with product engineering teams to embed reliability and operational excellence into the software lifecycle
• Mentor and uplevel other platform engineers; set technical direction and engineering best practices
• Own capacity planning and cost optimization for cloud infrastructure

What We're Looking For — Must-Haves

• 8+ years in DevOps, SRE, or Platform engineering roles, including meaningful time operating at Staff/Lead level
• Deep, hands-on expertise running production Kubernetes at scale
• Strong AWS expertise (EC2, VPC, EKS, RDS, IAM, networking, security groups)
• Proven track record building observability stacks (OTel, Grafana, Telegraf, Influx or similar)
• Strong scripting/automation skills (Python, Go, or Bash)
• Infrastructure-as-code experience (Terraform, Ansible)
• CI/CD pipeline design and ownership (Jenkins or similar)
• Solid networking fundamentals — TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing, VPNs, service mesh
• Experience owning on-call/incident management and driving a strong postmortem culture
• Excellent communication skills — able to influence engineering decisions across teams without direct authority

Nice to Have

• Experience with multi-region or multi-cloud architectures
• Familiarity with cost optimization / FinOps practices
• Exposure to compliance-driven environments (SOC 2, GDPR)
• Prior experience at a SaaS or data infrastructure company

About Hevo

Hevo is a fully-managed, no-code data pipeline platform that helps organizations move, transform, and activate their data in real time. With 150+ pre-built, battle-tested connectors, Hevo lets data teams focus on insights instead of pipeline maintenance — trusted by 2,000+ organizations globally to keep their data flowing reliably, securely, and in compliance with standards like SOC 2, GDPR, and HIPAA.