Senior DevOps Engineer

Platform9; Pune District; Hybrid; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Compensation and Equity

Medical Healthcare for you and your 가족

Generous Time Off Programs & Annual Yr

Job summary

Platform9 in India is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to own critical parts of our SaaS infrastructure, from design to day-to-day reliability. This hands-on role expects 6–10 years in DevOps and cloud-native ecosystems, with deep Kubernetes expertise and strong automation skills.

You will drive IaC with Terraform/Terragrunt, build CI/CD pipelines, improve monitoring, participate in on-call rotations, and mentor junior engineers while shaping architecture decisions and security best practices.

Qualifications

• 6 to 10 years of hands-on experience in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering.
• Strong production experience with Kubernetes, cluster administration, upgrades, networking, and troubleshooting.
• Solid grasp of Kubernetes security best practices, such as RBAC, network policies, and secrets management.
• Experience deploying, operating, and scaling SaaS platforms with a focus on reliability, scalability, and performance.
• Proficiency with infrastructure as code (Terraform, Terragrunt, or similar) on AWS or OCI.
• Strong scripting skills in Python, Go, or Bash.
• Solid Linux administration and networking fundamentals: TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing, and NAT.
• Incident management experience, including on-call, troubleshooting under pressure, and writing clear postmortems.
• A track record of owning infrastructure projects end to end with minimal supervision.
• A holistic, systems-engineering approach to delivering technology solutions.

Responsibilities

• Own the design, build, and operation of core infrastructure for our SaaS platform, including Kubernetes clusters, OpenStack environments, and supporting services on AWS and OCI.
• Automate provisioning, configuration, and deployments with infrastructure as code (Terragrunt/Terraform).
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines in partnership with the engineering teams.
• Improve monitoring, alerting, and observability so we catch problems before customers do.
• Troubleshoot production issues, take part in the on-call rotation, and drive root-cause analysis to closure.
• Apply Kubernetes and cloud security best practices across the stack.
• Keep infrastructure reliable, scalable, and cost-efficient as usage grows.
• Contribute to architecture decisions and the DevOps roadmap, and mentor junior engineers through code reviews, pairing, and clear runbooks.

Skills

Kubernetes expertise

Incident management

SRE practices

Automation mindset

Tools

Terraform/Terragrunt

AWS

OCI

Python/Go/Bash

OpenStack

Prometheus/Grafana

Job description

About Us

Platform9: A Better Way to Go Cloud Native

Cloud native is a strategic priority for technology leaders at nearly every company around the world. Going to cloud native is a complex, challenging, but necessary process for businesses and organisations, regardless of size or industry.

As cloud native grows and matures, many enterprises are looking to leverage powerhouse technologies like Kubernetes to accelerate their adoption, but they are faced with a limited set of options. Public cloud Kubernetes is expensive and locks you into their infrastructure and platform services. DIY Kubernetes gives you more infrastructure flexibility and control, but it is challenging and requires operation skills you don’t have. Platform9 is the third option for your cloud-native future.

Platform9 is the only container management and orchestration solution that supports the complete lifecycle of the cloud-native journey on infrastructure anywhere. We combine the flexibility of DIY Kubernetes, with the simplicity of public cloud Kubernetes. Platform9 is a better way to go cloud native, paving the way for an open distributed cloud future.

Innovative enterprises like Juniper, Kingfisher Plc, Mavenir, Redfin, Rackspace and Cloudera achieve 4x faster time-to-market, up to 90% reduction in operational costs, and 99.99% uptime. Platform9 is an inclusive, globally distributed company backed by leading investors.

All this means that the future for Platform9, for our customers, and for our team is about as bright and exciting as it gets. It’s the best time to join our highly collaborative, friendly, and rich learning environment. We have a high energy start-up culture. We value customer obsession, innovation, openness, bias towards action, and speed. And we are looking to add a seasoned DevOps manager to our tight-knit and engineering team.

Position Summary

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will own key parts of the infrastructure behind our SaaS platform, from design through day-to-day reliability. This role is for a hands-on engineer with 6 to 10 years of experience in DevOps and cloud-native technologies. As a key member of the Engineering Operations team, you will be a go-to engineer for Kubernetes, automation, and SaaS platform scaling. You will turn the team’s DevOps roadmap into working systems, replacing manual processes with robust, scalable automation. You will contribute to architecture decisions, best practices, and process improvements across the team. Expect to keep our infrastructure reliable, scalable, and cost-efficient as we grow, and to mentor junior engineers along the way.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the design, build, and operation of core infrastructure for our SaaS platform, including Kubernetes clusters, OpenStack environments, and supporting services on AWS and OCI.
• Automate provisioning, configuration, and deployments with infrastructure as code (Terragrunt/Terraform).
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines in partnership with the engineering teams.
• Improve monitoring, alerting, and observability so we catch problems before customers do.
• Troubleshoot production issues, take part in the on-call rotation, and drive root-cause analysis to closure.
• Apply Kubernetes and cloud security best practices across the stack.
• Keep infrastructure reliable, scalable, and cost-efficient as usage grows.
• Contribute to architecture decisions and the DevOps roadmap, and mentor junior engineers through code reviews, pairing, and clear runbooks.

Requirements

• 6 to 10 years of hands-on experience in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering, ideally in high-growth, cloud-native environments.
• Strong production experience with Kubernetes, including cluster administration, upgrades, networking, and troubleshooting.
• Solid grasp of Kubernetes security best practices, such as RBAC, network policies, and secrets management.
• Experience deploying, operating, and scaling SaaS platforms with a focus on reliability, scalability, and performance.
• Proficiency with infrastructure as code (Terraform, Terragrunt, or similar) on AWS or OCI.
• Strong scripting skills in Python, Go, or Bash.
• Solid Linux administration and networking fundamentals: TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing, and NAT.
• Incident management experience, including on-call, troubleshooting under pressure, and writing clear postmortems.
• A track record of owning infrastructure projects end to end with minimal supervision.
• A holistic, systems-engineering approach to delivering technology solutions.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with OpenStack or other open-source infrastructure projects.
• Advanced experience with CI/CD methodologies and tooling.
• Experience with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Cortex, Loki, or Groundcover.
• Experience defining and tracking SLOs, SLIs, and other operational metrics.
• Configuration management experience with Salt, Ansible, Chef, or similar.
• Familiarity with industry-standard security practices and compliance frameworks such as SOC 2.

Benefits and Perks

• Competitive Compensation and Equity
• Medical Healthcare for you and your family
• Generous Time Off Programs & Annual Year-End Shutdown
• Hybrid Work Model
• Wellness Benefits
• Professional Development / Global Certifications
• Reward and Recognition Programs
• Team Building Activities
• Hackathon
• Company-Wide Programs
• Our benefits have been carefully selected keeping in mind employees’ requirements and personal situations, now and for the future.