Senior Platform Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 30, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 30, 2026.
About Us
Location- Hyderabad
Level - Team Lead / Professional
Department - Product R&D
Working Pattern - Work from Office
Benefits - Benefits at Ideagen
Salary - To be discussed at next stage
At Ideagen, we're building the shared platforms that power a global portfolio of products. We're looking for aSenior Platform Engineer to join our Sustenance Platform team and help build, scale, and operate the cloud infrastructure that powers our products. This is an opportunity to work on complex platform engineering challenges using modern technologies such as
AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Python, and Go, while playing a key role in shaping platform strategy, reliability, security, and automation. As a senior member of the team, you'll take ownership of significant infrastructure initiatives from design through delivery, influence architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and help drive best practices in AI-assisted software development.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and resilient cloud infrastructure.
- Lead the delivery of complex platform engineering initiatives from concept to production.
- Build and enhance Infrastructure as Code solutions using Terraform.
- Contribute to platform architecture, technical design, and engineering standards.
- Support production systems through incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement.
- Review code, mentor engineers, and promote engineering excellence across the team.
- Drive automation and reduce operational toil through tooling and process improvements.
- Participate in on-call rotations and improve service reliability and observability.
- Leverage AI-assisted engineering tools responsibly and effectively, validating outputs and ensuring high-quality delivery.
Skills and Experience
Essential Skills & Experience
- Strong experience in Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Cloud Infrastructure roles.
- Deep expertise in AWS services, networking, IAM, compute, storage, and cloud architecture.
- Strong experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code practices.
- Hands-on experience with container platforms such as ECS, EKS, or Kubernetes.
- Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines, GitOps practices, and deployment automation.
- Knowledge of security best practices including secrets management, least-privilege access, encryption, and vulnerability management.
- Experience designing highly available and resilient cloud-native solutions.
- Strong troubleshooting, problem-solving, and incident management skills.
- Experience mentoring engineers and conducting technical reviews.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
Nice to Have
- Experience with Azure and multi-cloud environments.
- Knowledge of FinOps and cloud cost optimisation.
- Experience supporting compliance frameworks such as ISO 27001, SOC 2, or similar.
- Exposure to Python or Go development.
- Experience implementing AI-assisted engineering practices and automation.
About Ideagen
Ideagen is the invisible force behind many things we rely on every day - from keeping airplanes soaring in the sky, to ensuring the food on our tables is safe, to helping doctors and nurses care for the sick. So, when you think of Ideagen, think of it as the silent teammate that's always working behind the scenes to help those people who make our lives safer and better. Everyday millions of people are kept safe using Ideagen software. We have offices all over the world including America, Australia, Malaysia and India with people doing lots of different and exciting jobs.
What is next?
If your application meets the requirements for this role, our Talent Acquisition team will be in touch to guide you through the next steps.
To ensure a flexible and inclusive process, please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments by contacting us at [email protected]. All matters will be treated with strict confidence.
At Ideagen, we value the importance of work-life balance and welcome candidates seeking flexible or part-time working arrangements. If this is something you are interested in, please let us know during the application process.
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