Senior Platform Engineer

Good co India; India; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Good co India is seeking an experienced Platform Engineer to design and manage scalable internal developer platforms that boost productivity and delivery speed. You will build cloud infra with Terraform across AWS/Azure/GCP, maintain Kubernetes clusters, and implement CI/CD pipelines with GitOps practices.

You will contribute to IDPs with Backstage, implement observability, security controls, and FinOps-driven cost optimization while mentoring engineers and driving platform improvements.

Qualifications

• 5 to 10 years of experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, SRE, Cloud Infrastructure, or related roles.
• Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Software Eng or related discipline.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS/Azure/GCP and modern infra architectures.
• Proficiency in Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, container orchestration, and microservices environments.
• Experience with IaC tools such as Terraform and CloudFormation.
• Scripting skills in Python, Go, Bash for infra automation and tooling.
• Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows.
• Knowledge of IDPs, self-service infrastructure, developer portals, and DevEx practices.
• Experience with monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and centralized logging.
• Strong networking, Linux, distributed systems, API gateways, service meshes, and cloud security fundamentals.
• DevSecOps, IAM/RBAC, secrets management, policy enforcement, and compliance.
• Ability to automate repetitive tasks and build reusable platform capabilities.
• Track record of improving platform reliability, scalability, deployment efficiency, and cost optimization.
• Excellent troubleshooting, system design, problem-solving, and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable internal developer platforms to boost engineering productivity and delivery speed.
• Manage cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, or GCP using IaC tools like Terraform.
• Build and optimize Kubernetes clusters and containerized workloads.
• Develop CI/CD pipelines, GitOps workflows, and automated deployments (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Argo CD, Flux CD).
• Create self-service infrastructure capabilities and reusable platform components for independent app deployment.
• Establish and maintain Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) and developer portals using Backstage.
• Implement observability with centralized logging, metrics, tracing, dashboards, and alerts.
• Integrate security controls, IAM, secrets management, vulnerability scanning, and compliance checks into workflows.
• Improve platform reliability, scalability, performance through automation and proactive monitoring.
• Optimize cloud resource usage and costs via capacity planning and FinOps.
• Troubleshoot complex infra, networking, deployment, and prod issues with cross-functional teams.
• Establish platform engineering standards, reusable patterns, documentation, and best practices.
• Evaluate emerging technologies to enhance developer experience and platform capabilities.
• Mentor junior engineers, conduct code reviews, and drive platform improvements.

Skills

Kubernetes

Docker

Helm

Terraform

Python

Go

Bash

CI/CD pipelines

GitOps

DevSecOps

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

CloudFormation

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Backstage

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Job description

Role & responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and reliable internal developer platforms that improve engineering productivity and delivery speed.
• Develop and manage cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, or GCP using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform.
• Build, maintain, and optimize Kubernetes clusters, containerized workloads, and orchestration environments.
• Implement and manage CI/CD pipelines, GitOps workflows, and automated deployment processes using tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Argo CD, or Flux CD.
• Develop self-service infrastructure capabilities, reusable platform components, templates, and workflows to enable development teams to provision and deploy applications independently.
• Establish and maintain Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) and developer portals using tools such as Backstage.
• Implement observability solutions, including centralized logging, metrics, distributed tracing, dashboards, and alerting.
• Integrate security controls, secrets management, identity and access management, vulnerability scanning, and compliance checks into platform workflows.
• Improve platform reliability, availability, scalability, performance, and resilience through automation and proactive monitoring.
• Optimize cloud resource utilization and infrastructure costs through capacity planning, performance analysis, and FinOps practices.
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure, networking, deployment, and production issues in collaboration with application engineering and SRE teams.
• Establish platform engineering standards, reusable architectural patterns, documentation, and operational best practices.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and tools to improve developer experience, infrastructure automation, and platform capabilities.
• Mentor junior engineers, conduct code reviews, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver platform initiatives.
• Measure platform effectiveness using metrics such as deployment frequency, lead time, platform adoption, service reliability, and developer productivity

Preferred candidate profile

• 5 to 10 years of experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Cloud Infrastructure, or related engineering roles.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Strong hands‑on experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP and modern infrastructure architectures.
• Proficiency in Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, container orchestration, and microservices-based environments.
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or equivalent technologies.
• Proficiency in Python, Go, Bash, or other scripting languages for infrastructure automation and platform tooling.
• Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, GitOps workflows, and automated release processes.
• Knowledge of Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs), self‑service infrastructure, developer portals, and developer experience (DevEx) practices.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and centralized logging platforms.
• Strong understanding of networking, Linux systems, distributed systems, API gateways, service meshes, and cloud security fundamentals.
• Practical knowledge of DevSecOps, IAM/RBAC, secrets management, policy enforcement, and infrastructure compliance.
• Proven ability to automate repetitive operational tasks and build reusable platform capabilities for multiple engineering teams.
• Experience improving platform reliability, scalability, deployment efficiency, developer productivity, and infrastructure cost optimization.
• Strong troubleshooting, system design, problem-solving, communication, and cross‑functional collaboration skills.
• Ability to mentor engineers, document technical standards, and drive continuous improvements in platform architecture and operations.