R&D Platform Engineer – GPQSS Digital- IDC | Chennai, India

Hitachi ABB Power Grids; Chennai District; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 6,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi ABB Power Grids is seeking a Platform Engineer to design, build, automate, and operate scalable engineering platforms enabling cloud-native application delivery with speed and quality.

The role emphasizes Azure, AKS, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Helm, Azure DevOps, GitOps, observability, and platform automation. Strong ownership of developer experience and secure-by-design practices are required.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in DevOps or platform engineering with cloud-native delivery.
• Hands-on with Azure, AKS, Kubernetes, Docker, and IaC tools.
• Proven experience in Azure DevOps pipeline design and templating.
• Knowledge of GitOps and automated deployment practices.
• Familiarity with security and compliance in CI/CD environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain internal developer platforms with reusable services and automation.
• Standardize CI/CD templates using Azure DevOps for build, test, deploy, and security scans.
• Implement IaC with Terraform, Helm, and Ansible to provision environments.
• Enable GitOps for repeatable, auditable deployments and platform reliability.
• Enhance platform observability, security controls, and runbooks for operations.

Skills

Platform engineering

CI/CD pipelines

Automation

Observability

Security by design

DevSecOps

Troubleshooting

Education

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

Tools

Azure

AKS

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Helm

Azure DevOps

Argo CD

Flux

Ansible

Terraform

ARM/Bicep

Azure Key Vault

Job description

We are looking for a Platform Engineer to design, build, automate, and operate secure, scalable, and 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.

This role requires strong ownership of developer experience, infrastructure automation, cloud operations, security‑by‑design, and platform reliability. The candidate will collaborate with architects, developers, DevOps engineers, cybersecurity teams, product teams, and business stakeholders to establish reusable platform capabilities, standards, and self‑service solutions across the software delivery lifecycle.

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.

We are a global leader in electrification, powering the electricity era to meet the energy demands of today, and the next 25 years. As the energy arm of Hitachi Group, over three billion people depend on our pioneering, mission‑critical technologies to power their daily lives.

With over a century of innovation, we are addressing the most urgent energy challenge of our time: driving the evolution of the world’s energy system to ensure abundant, secure, affordable, and sustainable power for today’s generation and the next.

With an unparalleled installed base in over 140 countries, we are the grid ecosystem partner across the utility, industry, data center, and transportation sectors. Headquartered in Switzerland, we employ over 56,000 people in 60 countries and generate revenues of around $20 billion USD. We welcome you to apply today.