R&D Platform Engineer – GPQSS Digital- IDC

Hitachi Energy Ltd.; Chennai; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi Energy Ltd. is seeking a Platform Engineer to design, build, automate, and operate secure, scalable engineering platforms that accelerate cloud-native delivery. You will work with Azure, AKS, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Helm, and GitOps to enable self-service and automated pipelines across development teams.

The role emphasizes IaC, platform automation, observability, and DevSecOps integration to improve reliability and governance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in CS/IT/Engineering.
• 7+ years in DevOps, cloud/platform engineering, or cloud-native delivery.
• Hands-on with Azure, AKS, Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, container registries.
• Azure DevOps pipelines, YAML, release automation, and templates.
• IaC: Terraform, Ansible, Helm, ARM/Bicep or equivalent.
• Knowledge of developer portals, self-service automation, paved-road standards.
• GitOps tools like Argo CD or Flux.
• Monitoring/observability with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Azure Monitor.
• Networking, ingress, API gateways, secure service-to-service.
• Secrets management, OAuth/JWT/OpenID Connect solutions.
• DevSecOps, vulnerability management, compliance readiness.
• Nice to have: Kafka/RabbitMQ, event-driven patterns.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain internal developer platforms with reusable services, templates, pipelines, and automation.
• Manage cloud-native platform components on Azure, AKS, Kubernetes, Docker, and registries.
• Standardize CI/CD templates using Azure DevOps for build, test, security, deployment, and release.
• IaC implementation with Terraform, Helm, Ansible, or ARM/Bicep for consistent environments.
• Enable GitOps and configuration-driven deployment practices for repeatable operations.
• Build self-service capabilities for environment provisioning and monitoring dashboards.
• Improve platform reliability with observability, logging, metrics, and SLOs.
• Integrate platform security controls including secrets management and container security.
• Support DevSecOps with gates like SonarCloud, Black Duck, or similar tools.
• Collaborate with application teams to troubleshoot deployment, performance, and networking issues.

Skills

Azure

AKS

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Helm

Azure DevOps

GitOps

Observability

Platform automation

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in CS/IT/Engineering

Tools

Argo CD

Flux

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK

Azure Monitor

Application Insights

Terraform

Ansible

ARM/Bicep

Job description

Platform Engineer

We are looking for a Platform Engineer to design, build, automate, and operate secure, scalable, reliable engineering platforms that enable development teams to deliver cloud-native applications faster and with higher quality. The ideal candidate will have hands‑on expertise in Azure, AKS, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Helm, Azure DevOps, GitOps, observability, and platform automation.

How You'll Make An Impact

• Design, build, and maintain internal developer platforms that provide reusable services, templates, pipelines, and automation for application teams.
• Create and manage cloud-native platform components on Azure, AKS, Kubernetes, Docker, and container registries.
• Standardize CI/CD pipeline templates using Azure DevOps for build, test, security scanning, deployment, and release automation.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Helm, Ansible, or similar tools to provision and manage consistent environments.
• Enable GitOps and configuration-driven deployment practices for repeatable, auditable, and scalable platform operations.
• Build self-service capabilities for developers, including environment provisioning, deployment templates, monitoring dashboards, and operational runbooks.
• Improve platform reliability through observability, logging, metrics, alerting, SLOs, incident analysis, and continuous operational improvements.
• Integrate platform security controls including secrets management, container security, dependency scanning, image scanning, and policy enforcement.
• Support DevSecOps practices by integrating tools such as SonarCloud, Black Duck, MetaDefender, or equivalent security and quality gates into delivery pipelines.
• Implement authentication, authorization, API gateway, ingress, service mesh, and secure connectivity patterns for platform services.
• Partner with application teams to troubleshoot deployment, performance, networking, availability, and operational issues.
• Define platform standards, reusable architecture patterns, documentation, and best practices to improve developer productivity and governance.
• Evaluate and introduce automation, AI-assisted development, and platform engineering improvements that reduce manual effort and accelerate delivery.

Your background

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
• Minimum 7+ years of experience in DevOps, cloud engineering, platform engineering, infrastructure automation, or cloud-native application delivery.
• Strong hands-on experience with Azure, AKS, Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, container registries, and cloud-native deployment patterns.
• Strong experience in Azure DevOps pipeline design, YAML pipelines, release automation, branching strategies, and reusable pipeline templates.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Ansible, Helm, ARM/Bicep, or equivalent tools.
• Good understanding of platform engineering concepts such as developer portals, golden paths, self-service automation, reusable templates, and paved-road standards.
• Experience with GitOps tools and practices such as Argo CD, Flux, or equivalent configuration-driven deployment approaches.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Azure Monitor, Application Insights, or similar platforms.
• Good understanding of networking, ingress controllers, DNS, certificates, load balancing, API gateways, and secure service-to-service communication.
• Experience with secrets management, identity, access control, OAuth, JWT, OpenID Connect, Keycloak, Azure Key Vault, or equivalent solutions.
• Knowledge of DevSecOps, secure SDLC, threat modeling, vulnerability management, dependency scanning, image scanning, and compliance readiness.
• Experience supporting event-driven or distributed systems using Kafka, RabbitMQ, background jobs, or similar integration patterns is an advantage.
• Good understanding of application architecture, microservices, REST APIs, .NET Core, Angular, or full stack development concepts is an advantage.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, automation, and problem-solving skills with the ability to resolve complex platform and production issues.
• Strong communication, collaboration, ownership, documentation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work independently, guide engineering teams, and drive adoption of platform standards and best practices.
• Proficiency in English, both speaking and writing.
• Experience with AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot is an advantage.

Publication date : 2026-10-23