Senior Platform Engineer
First seen by Alion on Sep 25, 2026.
Job Description :
We are looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to design, implement, and operate cloud-native platforms on Microsoft Azure.
The role focuses on Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, automation, observability, security, and Disaster Recovery, ensuring highly available, secure, and resilient production environments.
Experience Range : 6 - 9 years
Educational Qualifications : B. Tech/B. E
Job Responsibilities :
- Design, deploy, and manage Azure infrastructure and AKS clusters.
- Implement and maintain Disaster Recovery, backup, and business continuity solutions.
- Automate infrastructure and deployments using Terraform, Helm, and Azure DevOps.
- Manage Kubernetes networking, ingress, storage, and security.
- Deploy and maintain observability platforms including Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki.
- Manage TLS certificates, secrets, and platform security.
- Support production environments, troubleshoot critical incidents, and drive root cause analysis.
- Plan and execute platform migrations and infrastructure upgrades.
- Create and maintain technical documentation, architecture diagrams, HLD/LLD, SOPs, operational runbooks, troubleshooting guides, and Disaster Recovery procedures.
- Define and maintain platform engineering standards, policies, governance frameworks, and best practices across Azure and Kubernetes environments.
- Establish cloud and Kubernetes governance covering RBAC, naming and tagging standards, resource organization, security controls, namespaces, resource limits, ingress, secrets, and storage.
- Define Infrastructure-as-Code and CI/CD governance, including reusable Terraform modules, code review standards, state management, pipeline controls, approval gates, environment promotion, and artifact/version management.
- Participate in architecture and technical design reviews for new platforms, applications, integrations, and infrastructure changes.
- Drive platform security and compliance readiness through security baselines, vulnerability remediation, access reviews, secrets/certificate management, audit controls, and policy enforcement.
- Define and track platform availability, SLIs/SLOs, capacity, performance, and operational health.
- Drive incident and problem management practices, including root cause analysis, corrective actions, and prevention of recurring incidents.
- Perform capacity planning, performance optimization, and cloud cost optimization across platform infrastructure.
- Own DR testing, RTO/RPO validation, backup/restore standards, recovery procedures, and evidence from periodic recovery exercises.
- Evaluate new platform technologies, conduct POCs, and establish approved patterns before production adoption.
- Provide technical leadership, knowledge sharing, and mentoring to engineers on Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, security, and platform operations.
Skills Required :
- Microsoft Azure, Kubernetes, AKS, OpenShift, Docker, Helm, Terraform, Azure DevOps, CI/CD, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Azure Networking, VNets, NSGs, Private Endpoints, Firewall, Linux, Bash scripting, Disaster Recovery, Backup & Restore strategies, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MySQL, Azure SQL, Cloud & Platform Governance, Kubernetes Security, Governance & Policy Enforcement, Azure Policy, RBAC, Security Controls, Infrastructure-as-Code standards and reusable Terraform patterns, CI/CD governance, release controls, and environment promotion strategies, Technical documentation (HLD, LLD, SOPs, runbooks, and architecture diagrams), Architecture design and technical design reviews, Incident, Problem & Root Cause Analysis management, Capacity planning, performance optimization, FinOps/cloud cost optimization, compliance, audit controls, operational governance, RTO/RPO planning, DR testing, backup and recovery governance, Git/GitOps practices and source control standards, Technical leadership, mentoring, cross-functional collaboration, High Availability, production operations, platform modernization, cloud transformation initiatives.
Candidate Attributes :
- Experience with PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MySQL, or Azure SQL.
- Experience with Git/GitOps practices and source control standards.
- Technical leadership, mentoring, and cross-functional collaboration.
- Banking or regulated industry experience.
- Strong understanding of High Availability, Disaster Recovery, and production operations.
- Experience defining enterprise platform standards, policies, and governance frameworks.
- Experience working in security- and compliance-controlled environments.
- Experience leading technical design reviews, platform modernization, and cloud transformation initiatives.
Skills
Cloud Infrastructure, Kubernetes, DevOps, Cloud Services, PostgreSQL, MySQL, CI/CD, Azure, Cluster Management, Monitoring Tools, IT Automation