# Platform Engineer

Key Responsibilities : - Build and operate Kubernetes clusters, with cloud-hosted control planes and AI accelerator nodes joined as workers over site-to-site connectivity. - Register, label and taint accelerator worker nodes so that inference workloads schedule onto the correct hardware class and manage device scheduling and topology constraints. - Plan and execute cluster and operating system upgrades: RKE2 version upgrades, RHEL patching and major-version migration, etcd backup and restore, and control-plane node replacement. - Own cluster networking and storage end to end: CNI, ingress, DNS, load balancing, CSI drivers, persistent volume lifecycle, backup and tested disaster recovery. - Deploy, configure and upgrade the vendor AI platform stack, which is delivered as Helm charts from an OCI registry and must be installed in a defined dependency order. - Manage platform configuration as code: Helm values files, chart versions, namespace layout, registry pull secrets, artifact credentials and service-account key rotation. - Manage TLS certificates and DNS for the inference API and console endpoints, including CA-issued and wildcard certificates and automated renewal. - Ope

- **Id**: 1230652
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/consulting-pandits-platform-engineer>
- **Role**: DevOps
- **Role family**: DevOps
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Pune, India
- **Countries**: IN
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 6
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-18T04:13:49Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-09-18T04:13:49Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 56
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4583
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no

## Company

- **Id**: 3800739
- **Name**: Consulting Pandits
- **Domain**: consultingpandits.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/consulting-pandits>
- **Is staffing agency**: yes
- **Employer type**: agency
- **Is intermediary**: no

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 17000
- **Max usd**: 40000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 53

## Technologies

- **Ansible** — Optional: no
- **Bash** — Optional: no
- **DNS** — Optional: no
- **etcd** — Optional: no
- **GitOps** — Optional: no
- **Grafana** — Optional: no
- **Helm** — Optional: no
- **HPC** — Optional: no
- **IAM** — Optional: no
- **K3s** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Kyverno** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: no
- **Prometheus** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Redis** — Optional: no
- **Terraform** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 56

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 6
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-25T14:00:00Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 7
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 0.4
- **P active**: 0.387
- **P room**: 0.45
- **Age days**: 55
- **Expected fill days**: 30
- **Reasons**: seen:55, agency, win:tail
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

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