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The ideal candidate will have 5-12 years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, distributed systems, or infrastructure, with strong expertise in building and managing large-scale systems.\nAs a Senior Platform Lead, you will play a critical role in defining the technical direction and architecture of the platform. You will work closely with engineering, product, infrastructure, security, and business teams to build reliable and scalable systems that enable development teams to deliver products efficiently. You will also provide technical leadership, establish engineering best practices, and help solve complex technical challenges across the organization.\nRequirements\nKey Responsibilities\nLead the architecture, design, and development of scalable and resilient platform solutions.\nBuild and maintain robust platform infrastructure that supports multiple applications, services, and engineering teams.\nDesign solutions capable of handling high traffic, large volumes of data, and complex distributed workloads.\nDrive the adoption of modern platform engineering principles, tools, and best practices.\nDevelop scalable architectures for distributed systems, microservices, APIs, cloud-native applications, and infrastructure.\nIdentify performance bottlenecks and implement improvements to enhance system reliability, scalability, and efficiency.\nEstablish standards for system design, deployment, observability, monitoring, security, and operational excellence.\nCollaborate closely with software engineers, DevOps teams, architects, and product stakeholders to understand technical requirements and deliver effective platform solutions.\nProvide technical guidance and mentorship to engineers and help build a strong engineering culture.\nLead technical discussions, architecture reviews, and design decisions for critical platform initiatives.\nEnsure high availability, fault tolerance, disaster recovery, and security across platform systems.\nDrive automation and improve developer productivity through reusable tools, services, and self-service platform capabilities.\nEvaluate emerging technologies and recommend suitable solutions based on business and technical requirements.\nParticipate in troubleshooting and resolving complex production issues involving large-scale systems.\nMust-Have Skills\nStrong hands-on experience in Platform Engineering.\nProven experience designing, building, and operating Large-Scale Systems.\nStrong understanding of distributed systems, scalability, reliability, availability, and fault tolerance.\nExperience with cloud platforms and cloud-native architectures.\nStrong knowledge of microservices, APIs, containers, and orchestration technologies.\nExperience designing systems capable of supporting high traffic and large-scale workloads.\nStrong understanding of system performance, capacity planning, monitoring, and observability.\nExperience with infrastructure automation and modern DevOps practices.\nStrong problem-solving and system design skills.\nAbility to make sound architectural decisions and manage complex technical challenges.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience working with Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD pipelines, and Infrastructure as Code.\nKnowledge of cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.\nExperience with distributed databases, messaging systems, caching technologies, and event-driven architectures.\nFamiliarity with security and compliance considerations in large-scale platforms.\nPrevious experience leading technical teams or mentoring engineers.\nExperience\n 5-12 years of relevant experience in software engineering, platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, or distributed systems.\nDemonstrated experience working on complex, scalable, and business-critical systems.","description_format":"text","description_chars":4138,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"India","iso":"IN","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":[],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-30T14:12:08Z"}],"liveness":{"score":52,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.516,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":5,"reasons":["conf:2","agency","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-01T02:23:32Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":178041,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/weekday-senior-platform-lead-2","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/weekday-senior-platform-lead-2.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-01T02:23:32Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":1832,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":3168,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-02T00:00:00Z"}}}