Platform Engineer (Azure DevOps)

JOB DESCRIPTION

Job title: Platform Engineer (Azure DevOps)

Location: Kochi (Hybrid)

Contract: Permanent, full-time

About us:

Cyncly is a global technology powerhouse with 2,800+ employees and 70,000+ customers across 100+ countries and 46+ offices. Cyncly transforms the way customizable products and spaces are imagined, designed, sold, managed and made. Our end-to-end software solutions connect professional designers, retailers and manufacturers to the world's largest repository of product content. Today, our business spans across the Kitchen & Bath, Furniture, Window, Glass & Door, and Flooring industries with operations in North & South America, Europe, Asia Pacific and Africa.

Cyncly offers over 30 years of experience to deliver more value for our customers through an expanded portfolio of end-to-end solutions. Our global presence allows us to provide world-class support and sales with a local touch, providing the best possible customer experience.

Cyncly is now embarking on an exciting journey as we continue to expand through strong organic growth and complementary acquisitions, backed by leading growth private equity firms specializing in technology.

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Platform Engineer to join our Platform Engineering organization. In this role, you will help evolve, operate, and secure our Internal Developer Platform (IDP), ensuring it remains scalable, secure, and easy to use for development teams across the company.

This position requires deep technical expertise in GitHub Enterprise, Azure DevOps, and strong hands-on experience in DevSecOps and application security, including GitHub Advanced Security.

You will work closely with engineering, security, and operations teams to drive automation, standardization, and the adoption of platform best practices.

Key Responsibilities:

Own and manage the Internal Developer Platform (IDP), ensuring reliability, scalability, and developer experience excellence.

Maintain and administer GitHub Enterprise and Azure DevOps as primary platform tooling.

Migrating code repositories and pipelines from Azure DevOps to GitHub Enterprise.

Configure, enforce, and continuously improve centralized security and compliance rulesets, including:

• Branch protection rules
• Quality gates
• Security policies
• Workflow governance

Implement and maintain workflow automations to streamline development, CI/CD, and governance activities.

Manage and review access controls, ensuring least-privilege and compliance in GitHub Enterprise and Azure DevOps.

Integrate and operationalize GitHub Advanced Security (GHAS), including:

• Code scanning
• Secret scanning
• Dependency scanning

Collaborate with security teams to enforce secure-by-default patterns across the platform.

Provide technical mentorship to engineers on DevSecOps best practices and platform capabilities.

Continuously monitor platform performance, usage, and security posture, and drive improvements.

Required Skills and Qualification:

• 5+ years of experience in DevSecOps and/or Platform Engineering
• Strong hands-on experience with:
  • Azure
    • Cloud Architecture
    • Well-Architected Framework
  • Azure DevOps
    • Azure Boards
    • Azure Repos
    • Azure Pipelines
    • Azure Test Plans
  • GitHub Enterprise
    • GitHub Actions
    • GitHub Advanced Security
    • GitHub Packages
    • GitHub Pages
    • GitHub Issues
• Proficiency in DevSecOps areas
  • Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
  • Agile Work Management (Scrum/Kanban)
  • Application Security (SAST/DAST/SCA)
  • Platform Engineering principles
    • Golden Paths
    • CI/CD workflow templates
    • Platform-as-a-Product mindset
  • Developer Experience (DevEx)
  • CI/CD Best Practices
  • Cloud Architecture
  • Strong scripting and automation skills using PowerShell, Python, YAML, or similar.
  • Knowledge of DORA metrics and software delivery performance measurement.
  • Experience integrating Azure DevOps and GitHub APIs.
  • Experience with AKS, Container Apps, Kubernetes, and containerized workloads.
  • Microsoft certifications in Azure, Azure DevOps, GitHub, Application Security

Working for us:

At Cyncly, we call our team OneCyncly, a reflection of how we work together as one, united by our purpose: powering businesses that bring spaces to life. Our strength comes from our diversity of experiences, perspectives, and skills - and we thrive when we work together with openness, trust, and respect.

Here, you’ll join a group of colleagues who take ownership, solve problems, and focus on making an impact. We embrace curiosity, welcome new ideas, and see mistakes as opportunities to learn. You’ll have the freedom to work flexibly and autonomously, supported by teammates and leaders who are committed to your growth.

We celebrate the different ways people contribute and encourage everyone - from every background - to bring their authentic self to work. Because when we collaborate, challenge each other, and share what we know, we build something better together.

If you want to work in a place where your ideas matter, your growth is valued, and your work shapes the spaces people live, work, and play in - come join us.