Platform Lead

Wenger & Watson; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Wenger & Watson in Bengaluru seeks an senior platform engineer to architect scalable cloud-native infrastructure and guide DevOps practices. You will drive platform strategy, mentor teams, and improve developer productivity across product and infrastructure groups.

Ideal candidates excel in Kubernetes, IaC, CI/CD, and cost governance, with cross-team collaboration and focus on reliability and developer experience.

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in Kubernetes, Docker, and container orchestration at scale.
• Solid understanding of cloud platforms (AWS preferred) with focus on scalability, reliability, and cost optimization.
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Responsibilities

• Lead architecture discussions and contribute to platform strategy and roadmaps.
• Mentor engineers in cloud-native, DevOps, and platform engineering practices.
• Drive best practices in DevOps, platform reliability, and developer experience.
• Collaborate closely with Product, Security, and Infrastructure teams to improve developer productivity.

Skills

Kubernetes

Docker

Cloud platforms AWS

Terraform

CloudFormation

CI/CD pipelines

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

ArgoCD

Flux

Python

Golang

Platform APIs

SRE principles

FinOps

Multi-cloud

Event-driven architectures

Kafka

SNS/SQS

AI/ML platform integration

LLM integrations

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

ArgoCD

Flux

Kafka

SNS/SQS

Python

Golang

Job description

Deep expertise in Kubernetes, Docker, and container orchestration at scale.

• Solid understanding of cloud platforms (AWS preferred) with focus on scalability, reliability, and cost optimization.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or equivalent).
• Strong CI/CD experience with Jenkins or GitHub Actions, including pipeline standardization and reuse.
• Experience implementing GitOps workflows using tools like ArgoCD or Flux.
• Strong experience in building self-service infrastructure and developer workflows.
• Strong programming skills in Python and/or Golang for platform tooling and automation.
• Experience designing platform APIs, reusable modules, and golden paths for developers.
• Strong understanding of SRE principles including SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, and incident management.
• Lead architecture discussions and contribute to platform strategy and roadmaps.
• Mentor engineers in cloud-native, DevOps, and platform engineering practices.
• Drive best practices in DevOps, platform reliability, and developer experience.
• Collaborate closely with Product, Security, and Infrastructure teams to improve developer productivity.
• Exposure to multi-cloud and hybrid cloud environments.
• Knowledge of cost governance and FinOps practices.
• Familiarity with platform scalability patterns and multi-tenancy design.
• Understanding of event-driven architectures and messaging systems (Kafka, SNS/SQS, etc.).
• Exposure to AI/ML platform integration (as a platform capability, not core focus).
• Understanding of LLM integrations, APIs, or AI-driven developer tooling.