Senior Platform Engineer

TransCloud Labs; Chennai District; On-site; INR 2,400,000 - 4,200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Flexible working hours

5-day work week

Informal dress code

Direct exposure to enterprise clients

Career growth in platform engineering

Job summary

TransCloud Labs seeks a Senior Platform Engineer to join the platform engineering team for a global automotive client in Chennai. You will build and operate CI/CD pipelines, support a self-service onboarding portal, and own production incidents with 24x5 coverage, driving reliability and automation with Python and Terraform.

You will onboard services for application teams, implement GitOps with Argo CD/Flux, and assist in migrating pipelines from Tekton to GitHub Actions.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in DevOps or platform engineering, with at least 2 years building and running CI/CD at scale.
• Hands-on production experience with Kubernetes; OpenShift preferred (namespaces, RBAC, routes, operators).
• Kubernetes-native CI/CD; Tekton preferred; GitHub Actions or Jenkins valuable.
• GitOps tooling such as Argo CD or Flux; blue-green and canary deployments.
• Solid Google Cloud experience: GKE, IAM, VPC networking, Artifact Registry, Cloud Logging/Monitoring.
• Infrastructure-as-code with Terraform, building reusable modules.
• Python for automation; comfortable reading backend code and REST APIs.
• Strong Linux, Git, Docker, and cloud networking/security fundamentals.
• Proven ability to troubleshoot pipeline/deployment failures in production.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines and reusable templates used by hundreds of application teams.
• Support and extend the self-service onboarding portal and its APIs; automate PRs and deployments via GitOps.
• Respond to production pipeline failures; troubleshoot to root cause and update stakeholders until done.
• Collaborate with application teams to understand requirements and onboard services.
• Automate repetitive tasks with Python and Terraform.
• Document platform internals; validate changes against live system for team troubleshooting.
• Contribute to platform improvements, including CI/CD migrations and reliability metrics.

Tools

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Tekton

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Argo CD

Flux

Terraform

Python

Docker

Git

Linux

Cloud (GCP)

IAM/VPC/Networking

REST APIs

Job description

Senior Platform Engineer - CI/CD (GCP, Kubernetes/OpenShift)

Location:

Chennai

Experience:

4 - 8 years

About the role:

Transcloud helps enterprises and fast-growing companies migrate, modernise and run critical workloads in the cloud. We're looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to work embedded in the platform engineering team of a global automotive client.The team runs the CI/CD platform for a large application portfolio: thousands of services, onboarded through a self-service platform and supported 24x5. You'll build and run the pipelines that application teams depend on every day. When something breaks, you'll own it until it's fixed.

What you'll do?

• Build, maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines and reusable pipeline templates used by hundreds of application teams.
• Support and extend the self-service onboarding platform: the portal, its backend APIs, automated pull requests across repositories, and GitOps-based deployments.
• Take part in the on-call roster. Respond quickly to production pipeline failures, debug to root cause, and keep stakeholders updated until the issue is resolved.
• Work directly with application teams to understand their requirements, clarify gaps, and get their services onboarded.
• Automate repetitive work using Python and Terraform.
• Document how the platform works, validated against the live system, so the wider team can troubleshoot independently.
• Contribute to platform improvements such as CI/CD migrations (e.g. Tekton to GitHub Actions), reliability metrics, and AI-assisted engineering tools.

Must-have skills:

• 3+ years in DevOps or platform engineering, with at least 2 years building and running CI/CD at scale.
• Hands-on production experience with Kubernetes. OpenShift is strongly preferred (namespaces, RBAC, routes, operators).
• Kubernetes-native CI/CD. Tekton is preferred; GitHub Actions or Jenkins experience is also valuable.
• GitOps tooling such as Argo CD or Flux, and deployment strategies such as blue-green and canary.
• Solid Google Cloud experience: GKE, IAM, VPC networking, Artifact Registry, Cloud Logging and Monitoring.
• Infrastructure-as-code with Terraform, including building reusable modules.
• Python for automation, and comfort reading backend code and REST APIs.
• Strong fundamentals in Linux, Git, Docker and cloud networking/security.
• A proven ability to troubleshoot pipeline and deployment failures under production pressure.

Good to have:

• Google Cloud Professional certification (Cloud DevOps Engineer or Cloud Architect).
• CKA/CKAD or a Red Hat OpenShift certification.
• Experience migrating between CI/CD platforms.
• Experience with internal developer platforms or self-service portals.
• DORA metrics, observability, or software supply chain security (SBOMs, image signing, policy-as-code).
• Exposure to AWS or Azure.

How you work?

• You take end-to-end ownership of your work. Nobody needs to chase you for progress.
• You raise blockers early and ask clarifying questions before passing work on.
• You treat production issues with urgency.
• You share proactive, written updates.
• You learn a new system by getting hands-on with it, not by waiting to be walked through it.
• You're comfortable working embedded in a client team while representing Transcloud's standards.

What we offer?

• Health insurance.
• Flexible working hours.
• A 5-day work week and an informal dress code.
• Direct exposure to enterprise clients, and career growth in platform engineering.

*Subject to client on-call and US-overlap requirements.