Senior Platform Automation Engineer

Lincoln Motor Company; India; Remote; INR 1,800,000 - 3,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Lincoln Motor Company is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to design, build, automate, and operate enterprise-grade Kubernetes and OpenShift platforms. You will collaborate with development and infrastructure teams to deliver scalable, secure, and highly available cloud-native capabilities.

The role emphasizes a strong engineering mindset, hands-on development, and expertise in platform automation, CI/CD, GitOps, and API integration, with a focus on Go and Python for platform components.

Qualifications

• Strong engineering mindset with hands-on development experience.
• Expertise in platform automation, API integration, CI/CD and GitOps.
• Proficient in Go and Python for platform components.
• Experience with Kubernetes and OpenShift administration and upgrades.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, administer, and upgrade Kubernetes and OpenShift clusters.
• Develop platform capabilities using automation and IaC.
• Build API integrations between platform services and enterprise systems.
• Implement CI/CD and GitOps solutions with GitHub, Argo CD, Tekton.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to deliver scalable cloud-native solutions.
• Develop platform observability, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
• Contribute to platform security, reliability, and operational excellence.

Skills

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Go

Python

CI/CD

GitOps

IaC

API integration

OOP fundamentals

Automation

Tools

GitHub

Argo CD

Tekton

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will design, build, automate, and operate enterprise-grade Kubernetes/OpenShift platforms. You will work closely with development and infrastructure teams to deliver scalable, secure, and highly available cloud-native platform capabilities.

This role requires a strong engineering mindset, hands‑on development experience, and expertise in platform automation, API integration, CI/CD, and GitOps practices.

• Design, build, administer, and upgrade Kubernetes and OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) clusters.

• Develop platform capabilities using automation, scripting, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) methodologies.

• Build integrations between platform services and enterprise systems through APIs and automation frameworks.

• Design and implement CI/CD and GitOps solutions using tools such as GitHub, Argo CD, and Tekton.

• Develop and maintain platform components using Go, Python, or equivalent programming languages.

• Collaborate with engineering teams to build scalable and resilient cloud-native solutions.

• Implement platform observability, monitoring, and troubleshooting practices.

• Contribute to platform architecture, security, reliability, and operational excellence initiatives.

• Support microservices-based workloads and distributed systems running on container platforms.

• 6-10 years of experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or Cloud Infrastructure.

• Strong experience administering Kubernetes and OpenShift Container Platform (OCP), including cluster deployment, upgrades, lifecycle management, and automation.

• Proficiency in software development with strong object-oriented programming concepts.

• Hands‑on development experience in Go, Python, or a similar programming language.

• Experience with CI/CD and GitOps tools such as GitHub, Argo CD, and Tekton.

• Experience designing and integrating APIs with an API‑first engineering approach.

• Strong hands‑on experience designing and implementing platform solutions as an individual contributor.

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation frameworks.

• Solid understanding of distributed systems, microservices architectures, and cloud-native design principles.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with one or more of the following:

• Kubernetes Operators and Custom Controllers

• Service Mesh technologies such as Istio

• Observability platforms including Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Dynatrace, or similar tools

• Storage technologies such as Ceph and OpenShift Data Foundation (ODF)

• Secrets management solutions such as HashiCorp Vault

• Hybrid cloud and private cloud environments

• Platform security, governance, and compliance best practices