Senior Platform Engineer

Senior
Companyoptiva.com
LocationHyderabad
CategoryInfrastructure
SenioritySenior
Workplace-
Posted2026-08-22
Viaworkday

Description

It's fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they're doing!

We're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business.

Job Summary

We are looking for a hands-on Senior Platform Engineer (Kubernetes Platform & Platform Services) with 6 to 12 years of experince to design, build, and operate our internal cloud/hybrid platform powered by Kubernetes. This role is for engineers who don’t just maintain infrastructure — they build platform products and services that enable development teams to move fast, safely, and reliably.You will take end-to-end ownership of platform services such as databases, message queues, caching systems, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and developer tooling. We expect strong engineering fundamentals, deep Kubernetes expertise, and a product mindset toward internal platforms.This is not a ticket-driven operations role. This is a builder role.

What You Will Do

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Design, implement, and operate production-grade Kubernetes clusters

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Build and maintain platform services :

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PostgreSQL / MariaDB / Cassandra / etc.

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Kafka / RabbitMQ

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Redis

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Observability / Monitoring stack

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Secrets management

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And many more

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Develop internal self-service tooling for developers

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Automate infrastructure and platform provisioning (IaC, GitOps)

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Improve reliability, scalability, and security of the platform

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Own CI/CD systems and deployment workflows

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Implement observability standards (metrics, logs, tracing)

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Lead incident response and postmortem improvements

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Continuously reduce cognitive load for application teams

Required Skills & Experience

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Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production

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Deep understanding of:

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Networking (CNI, Ingress, Load Balancers, Service Mesh)

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Storage and Stateful Workloads (CSI, Snapshots, StatefulSets, storage classes)

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Resource management (requests/limits, autoscaling)

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Kubernetes Operators

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Experience operating or building platform services:

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Databases (replication, backup, failover)

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Message brokers (partitioning, durability, scaling)

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Caching systems

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Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi, Crossplane, etc.)

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CI/CD systems and GitOps workflows

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Experience with at least one cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure)

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Strong debugging and incident response skills

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Production mindset and reliability-first thinking

Nice to Have

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Telco/BSS domain knowledge

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Experience building internal developer platforms

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Multi-tenant Kubernetes environments

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Service mesh (Istio, Linkerd)

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Security hardening & policy enforcement

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Cost optimization in cloud environments

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Multi-region or disaster recovery architectures

What We Value

End-to-End Ownership

You build it, you run it, you improve it.

Strong Hands-On Engineering

We expect engineers who write code, automate everything, and dive deep into root causes.

Platform-as-a-Product Thinking

The platform is a product for developers. Developer experience matters.

High Standards

We optimize for long-term maintainability, reliability, and simplicity.

Continuous Improvement

Blameless postmortems, automation over manual processes, and learning from failure.

What Success Looks Like

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Developers can provision systems in minutes, not days.

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Platform incidents are rare and well-understood.

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Scaling is predictable.

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Deployments are boring.

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The platform accelerates product teams instead of blocking them.