Senior Platform Engineer - Azure Microservices & DevOps

SenecaGlobal, Inc.; Hyderabad City Taluka; On-site; PKR 11,494,000 - 20,115,000; Full time

Job summary

SenecaGlobal, Inc. seeks a Senior Platform Engineer to join our Platform Engineering team. The role balances 50% development and 50% DevOps, focusing on Azure-based backend services and modernizing monoliths into microservices.

You will design, deploy, and monitor scalable systems using .NET, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and container technologies like Docker/AKS, with heavy emphasis on infrastructure as code and observability.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with backend and platform focus.
• Infrastructure as Code using Bicep, Terraform, ARM or Pulumi.
• Strong .NET/C# development for production backends.
• Microservices architecture and monolith-to-microservices experience.
• EF Core experience with migrations and query optimization.
• SQL Server and/or PostgreSQL design and performance work.
• Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines built from scratch.
• Contract-first API/service design before implementation.
• AI tools usage in daily development (Claude/Copilot/Cursor).
• Ability to re-architect systems independently without relying on current team.
• Version control, testing frameworks, CI/CD workflows, end-to-end ownership.
• Experience collaborating with multinational, cross-functional teams.
• High-trust, accountability and transformation mindset.

Responsibilities

• Re-architect existing systems or codebases independently using transition architecture principles.
• Lead decomposition of monoliths into microservices with defined boundaries and data contracts.
• Design, implement, monitor and debug .NET/C# backend services across full lifecycle.
• Build and extend Entity Framework services with migrations and optimization.
• Manage cloud infra using Azure Bicep, ARM, Terraform or equivalents.
• Build and maintain containerization and orchestration with Docker and AKS.
• Design event-driven integration using Kafka or Service Bus when needed.
• Maintain observability with tools like New Relic as applicable.
• Possess 50/50 split between .NET development and DevOps responsibilities.
• Convert monoliths to microservices, containerize, and deploy to cloud autonomously.

Skills

Backend development

Platform engineering

Azure

C#/.NET

Docker

AKS

SQL Server

PostgreSQL

CI/CD pipelines

Microservices

Observability

Education

BTech/BE/MTech in CS/EE

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

ARM templates

Pulumi

Azure DevOps

Git

Kubernetes (AKS)

New Relic

Kafka

Job description

SenecaGlobal, Inc. seeks a Senior Platform Engineer to join our Platform Engineering team. The role balances 50% development and 50% DevOps, focusing on Azure-based backend services and modernizing monoliths into microservices.

You will design, deploy, and monitor scalable systems using .NET, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and container technologies like Docker/AKS, with heavy emphasis on infrastructure as code and observability.