Senior Platform Engineer - Hybrid (Chennai)

Tensure Consulting LLC; Chennai District; Hybrid; INR 3,500,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private healthcare

Parental insurance

25 days PTO

11 company holidays

Transparent pay structure

Job summary

Tensure Consulting LLC in Chennai is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable infrastructure and internal platforms powering production systems. You will collaborate with global engineering teams, drive reliability, security, automation, and faster deployment velocity, and contribute hands-on across cloud, containerization, and IaC.

This is a senior, hands-on role requiring deep technical depth and the ability to work independently in a fast-paced consulting

Qualifications

• 6–9+ years of experience in Platform Engineering / DevOps / SRE.
• Hybrid role requiring 3 days in the office.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS.
• Experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration.
• Deep knowledge of Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform preferred).
• Strong CI/CD experience (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, etc.).
• Experience with observability tools (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, etc.).
• Solid understanding of networking, cloud security, and distributed systems.
• Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills.
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced consulting environment.

Responsibilities

• Developing and maintaining custom software solutions
• Working with different technologies, including GCP, AWS (primarily Cloud Functions) and web development
• Designing, coding, implementing, and testing applications
• Creating documentation and ensuring the security and integrity of software applications
• Automating business processes through custom code
• Daily code pushes

Skills

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

Observability

Networking & Security

Distributed systems

Troubleshooting

Independent work

GCP

Cloud Functions

Tools

Terraform

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Jenkins

Datadog

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Who We Are

Tensure is a modern tech consultancy that tackles Cloud, Applications, and Data with open-handed expertise. We believe great work starts with teamwork so we’ve reimagined collaborative tech consulting. With a people-first approach and tangible solutions, our clients can do what makes them great while we optimize their tech stack. We’re clever and pragmatic but we also embrace the magic that happens when personality collides with technical excellence. Because ultimately, innovation isn’t boring (and neither are we).

Where You'll Come In

As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will design, build, and maintain the infrastructure and internal platforms that power production systems at scale. You will work closely with engineering teams across geographies to improve reliability, security, automation, and deployment velocity.

This is a hands on, senior level role requiring strong technical depth and the ability to operate independently.

What you'll do

• Developing and maintaining custom software solutions
• Working with different technologies, including GCP, AWS (primarily Cloud Functions) and web development
• Designing, coding, implementing, and testing applications
• Creating documentation and ensuring the security and integrity of software applications
• Automating business processes through custom code
• Daily code pushes

Requirements

• 6–9+ years of experience in Platform Engineering / DevOps / SRE
• Hybrid role - requires 3 days in the office
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS (or equivalent cloud platform)
• Experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration
• Deep knowledge of Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform preferred)
• Strong CI/CD pipeline experience (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, etc.)
• Experience with observability tools (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, etc.)
• Solid understanding of networking, cloud security, and distributed systems
• Experience managing production-grade systemsStrong troubleshooting and debugging skills
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced consulting environment

Some of our Perks

• Private healthcare plan w/parental insurance
• 25 days PTO (Sick, holiday and vacation) + 11 Company Holidays
• A transparent pay structure with a clear path to promotion

Understanding the interview journey

• An initial screening interview
• A technical interview (pairing - code challenge, case studies and/or hypothetical questions about how you would solve certain challenges)
• An interview with the team pertinent to your role
• A culture and values interview
• Offer Letter sent via email (or a decline with feedback)