Senior Platform Engineer: Observability & Cloud Infra

Tata Consultancy Services; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 125,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

Tata Consultancy Services in Jersey City, NJ is seeking an experienced software professional for a senior engineering role focusing on observability, infrastructure as code, and containerized platforms. You will drive high-availability systems, leverage GitOps, and contribute to hyperscale services across distributed environments.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years of relevant experience, strong CS fundamentals, and proven stakeholder communication skills.

Qualifications

• Strong programming fundamentals in Java and software engineering best practices.
• Experience with containerized architectures and Kubernetes.
• Proficiency with GitOps and CI/CD pipelines.
• Knowledge of high availability and scalable systems.
• Hands-on observability tooling and end-to-end monitoring.

Responsibilities

• 5+ yrs of Relevant experience in a critical software development role with high business impact, ability to understand how software delivers business value.
• Excellent engineering skills and senior architecture.
• Excellent working knowledge of key computer science concepts (networking, operating systems, virtualization, containerization, etc.)
• Polyglot full-stack developer mentality and ability to pick up new languages and skills
• Excellent understanding of Software Engineering concepts like Software Development Life Cycle and GitOps
• Excellent debugging and analytical skills: ability to isolate root cause across networking/infrastructure, application and database stacks
• Operational experience of deploying and running services at scale on top of Docker/Kubernetes stack and a service mesh, like Istio, is highly desirable
• Operational experience with orchestration tools for CI/CD and Infrastructure-as-Code tooling (Terraform, Cloud Formation, etc.) is highly desirable.
• Experience of delivering software using Agile delivery methodologies is a must (SCRUM/Kanban).
• Operational experience of using middleware technologies (MQ, Apache Kafka, etc.) to run services at scale is desirable.
• Strong experience with end-to-end observability stacks (Datadog, AppDynamics, Dynatrace, etc.) is desirable.
• Degree in computer science/mathematics/physics or related technical subjects is desirable.
• Experience of senior stakeholder management.
• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication skills.

Skills

Java

Containerization

Kubernetes

GitOps

High Availability

Observability

Infrastructure as Code

Hyperscale Systems

Configuration Management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Job description

Tata Consultancy Services in Jersey City, NJ is seeking an experienced software professional for a senior engineering role focusing on observability, infrastructure as code, and containerized platforms. You will drive high-availability systems, leverage GitOps, and contribute to hyperscale services across distributed environments.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years of relevant experience, strong CS fundamentals, and proven stakeholder communication skills.