Location: Preferably Chennai (or) Bangalore

Purpose of the role:

An experienced and highly hands-on Platform Engineering / CI/CD Lead to drive the design, implementation, and optimization of modern CI/CD pipelines, platform infrastructure, and deployment frameworks for both new products and existing platforms at scale. This role requires exceptional technical depth in cloud-native environments, containerization, automation, and high-availability architectures. The candidate will combine leadership with hands-on expertise to ensure scalable, secure, globally distributed, multi-region architectures with cutting-edge tools and high-performing delivery pipelines for a global SaaS environment for enterprises.

You will be

Highly hands-on despite being a lead position, and must be comfortable working directly with code, pipelines, infrastructure, and deployments while guiding the team in adopting best practices and delivering results at scale.

Responsibilities

• Platform Engineering & CI/CD Ownership
• Infrastructure & Cloud-Native Expertise
• Containerization & OS Expertise
• Security & IAM
• Databases & Caching
• Collaboration & Leadership
• Preferred Tools & Frameworks Experience

Following are the required skills

Platform Engineering & CI/CD Ownership

• Lead the design, development, and optimization of end-to-end CI/CD pipelines for multiple environments (development, staging, production).
• Integrate static code analysis, security scanning, automation testing, integration testing, and system testing tools into the pipeline.
• Ensure blue-green and canary deployments, rollback strategies, and zero-downtime deployment practices are followed.
• Own the release management process and coordinate with cross-functional teams for smooth, reliable deployments.

Infrastructure & Cloud-Native Expertise

• Architect and manage infrastructure for high-volume traffic SaaS applications deployed globally.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS services
• Compute & Networking: EC2, VPC, Route 53, Auto Scaling, Elastic Load Balancing
• EKS: Container, Pod, Services, Namespaces, Node Group, Volumes , Ingress , Auto Scaling , Helm Charts
• Storage & Databases: RDS, DynamoDB, Elasticache , (Redis/Memcached)
• Networking & Security: AWS WAF, Security Groups, VPC Peering, Transit Gateway
• IAM: Role-based access control, fine-grained policies, key and secret management (AWS KMS, Secrets Manager)
• Monitoring & Cost Management: CloudWatch, New Relic, AWS Cost Explorer, cost segregation strategies
• Knowledge of multi-region architecture and global traffic management with failover and replication strategies.

Containerization & OS Expertise

• Strong proficiency in Docker and Kubernetes (EKS) with deployment at scale involving hundreds/thousands of pods.
• Strong working knowledge of Linux and Windows server environments for hybrid workloads.
• Experience in large-scale container orchestration for enterprise or SaaS products.

Security & IAM

• Deep understanding of Identity and Access Management in cloud and on-premises systems.
• Experience with Keycloak, OIDC/OAuth2, Okta, or similar identity providers.
• Proven track record in secure pipeline and environment configuration.

Databases & Caching

• Strong knowledge of both relational (MySQL/PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB, DynamoDB, Cassandra) databases and replication.
• Experience with caching systems (Redis, Memcached) for large-scale, high-performance workloads.

Collaboration & Leadership

• Lead cross-functional teams to drive DevOps best practices across engineering groups.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, and QA to streamline software delivery and ensure reliability.
• Provide technical mentorship and enforce industry-leading CI/CD standards.

Preferred Tools & Frameworks Experience

• CI/CD: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, ArgoCD
• Testing Integrations: Selenium, JUnit, Postman, REST Assured
• Security & Analysis: SonarQube, Snyk, OWASP ZAP
• Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, New Relic, ELK Stack, Open Telemetry
• Secrets Management: AWS KMS, Vault, Secrets Manager

Soft Skills

• Excellent communication skills - oral, written, presentation.
• Ability to set priorities, develop and execute a clear and concise plan, and drive execution.
• Work in collaboration with Cross functional team
• Take ownership, think innovation and clearly understand problem to handle ambiguities in large projects.

This role is highly hands-on despite being a lead position, and the candidate must be comfortable working directly with code, pipelines, infrastructure, and deployments while guiding the team in adopting best practices and delivering results at scale.

Qualifications & Experience

• 10+ years of experience in software delivery, with at least 5 years in platform engineering / DevOps leadership roles.
• Proven experience in building and scaling CI/CD pipelines in large enterprise or SaaS environments.
• Strong architecture skills for cloud-native, multi-region, high-availability platforms.
• Experience in large-scale deployments with high-volume, globally distributed traffic.
• Excellent knowledge of security best practices, IAM, and compliance requirements.

Preferred Certifications (Big Plus)

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
• Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert