Platform Engineering Sr Engineer

TekWissen LLC; Chennai; Hybrid; INR 2,600,000 - 3,800,000; Full time

Job summary

TekWissen LLC in Chennai seeks a Platform Engineering Senior Engineer to build and operate scalable platform capabilities that streamline deployments for engineering teams. The role focuses on CI/CD automation and self-service workflows for containerized services on OpenShift/Kubernetes.

You will collaborate with application teams, platform operations, and security to improve delivery workflows, support the service lifecycle, and document platform procedures for global use.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in IT with senior engineer capability.
• 8+ years in development with practical experience deploying containerized workloads on OpenShift or Kubernetes.
• Experience developing or maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Tekton or similar tools.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate platform capabilities that make service deployment easier, safer, and more consistent for engineering teams.
• Develop CI/CD automation and self-service workflows for deploying containerized services to OpenShift/Kubernetes environments.
• Collaborate with application teams, platform operations, and security stakeholders to improve delivery workflows and support the service lifecycle.
• Document platform workflows and provide operational guidance to teams.

Skills

Openshift

CI/CD

Automation

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

GitHub

Python

TERRAFORM

Job description

Overview

TekWissen is a global workforce management provider throughout India and many other countries in the world. The below client is a global company with shared ideals and a deep sense of family. From our earliest days as a pioneer of modern transportation, we have sought to make the world a better place - one that benefits lives, communities and the planet

Job Title

Platform Engineering Senior Engineer

Location

Chennai

Work Type

Hybrid (4 Days work From Office)

Position Description

• The Platform Engineer will help build and operate platform capabilities that make service deployment easier, safer, and more consistent for engineering teams.
• The role will develop CI/CD automation and self-service workflows for deploying approved containerized services to OpenShift/Kubernetes environments.
• It will work with application teams, platform operations, and security stakeholders to improve delivery workflows and support the service lifecycle.

Skills Required

• Openshift , CI/CD, Automation

Skills Preferred

• GitHub, Python, TERRAFORM

Experience Required

• Senior Engineer Exp: Proficient In 2 coding lang. or adv. Prac. in 1 lang.; guides.
• 10+ years in IT;
• 8+ years in development Practical experience deploying and supporting containerized workloads on OpenShift or Kubernetes.
• Experience developing or maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Tekton or a comparable tool.
• Working knowledge of container images, registries, version control, and deployment configuration.
• Experience automating repeatable deployment or operational tasks through scripting or workflow tools.
• Understanding of secure delivery practices, including access controls, validation, secrets handling, approvals, and auditable changes. Strong troubleshooting, documentation, and communication skills.

Experience Preferred

• Experience with internal developer portals, service catalogs, or self-service provisioning.
• Experience creating reusable deployment templates, workflows, or golden paths.
• Familiarity with GitOps and declarative deployment practices.
• Experience integrating software composition, security, or license scanning into CI/CD.
• Experience supporting stateful services and planning upgrades, recovery, and rollback.
• Apache NiFi experience is beneficial but not required unless the role specifically owns NiFi.

Education Required

• Bachelors Degree

Education Preferred

• Bachelors Degree

Additional Information

• Build and maintain self-service workflows for provisioning and deploying approved services.
• Develop and support CI/CD pipelines for building, validating, packaging, releasing, and deploying containerized services.
• Create reusable templates and documented deployment paths to reduce manual coordination for routine deployments.
• Integrate workflows with source control, container registries, scanning tools, and deployment configuration repositories.
• Apply appropriate validation, approval, access-control, and audit requirements.
• Support service configuration, upgrades, troubleshooting, rollback planning, and decommissioning.
• Document platform workflows, usage guidance, and operational procedures.
• Gather user feedback and use available measures-such as provisioning time and workflow success-to improve the platform.
• Collaborate with application owners, platform teams, security, and operations.

Equal Opportunity

TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.