Senior Cloud Platform Engineer
Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu (Hybrid role)
2 days from the office in Chennai & 3 Days Work from home.
Experience: 7+ years
Salary- Rs 30 lakhs- 35 lakhs/annum
No of positions: 2
Responsibilities:
DevOps and SRE Practices: Design, implement, and manage automated CI/CD platforms
- Standardize and automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration management
- Observability framework implementation, Security, and shift left mindset
Frameworks and Tools: — Build high performance cloud native tools and services(Internal Dev Platforms, custom operators, etc.)
- Build frameworks for development workflows(CI/CD) and platforms for managing containerized workloads across environments
- Reduce toil through automation for all the platform productions. Reliability with Scale(SRE) â— Build auto-healing systems and chaos engineering
- Scale and manage a distributed system
- Champion incident response(on-call rotation/blameless postmortems
- Optimize cloud costs(FinOps), cloud security, and scalability.
- Qualifications: -
- Minimum of 7+ years of experience in software development.
- Strong software engineering background (Go/Java preferred).
- Cloud-native development (AWS/GCP APIs, SDKs, and infra-as-code).
- Experience building internal platforms/tools (not just managing infra).
- Deep knowledge of Kubernetes, containers, and distributed systems.
- Experience in designing and building API services is required.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and can-do attitude and communication skills are a must.
- Experience in monitoring and alerting(Prometheus/Grafana) is a plus.
Additional notes: This role is not just a DevOps/cloud/ engineer. It requires a platform mindset and building reusable, scalable infrastructure
Look for candidates who bridge development and operations, not ops-focused.
Passion and curiosity to learn new technologies, languages, and patterns to improve security, availability, performance, and new capabilities quickly.
Previous experience working in startups is also very helpful, along with a can-do attitude.