Platform Engineer

Role : Platform Engineer

Experience: 10+ years

Location: Remote

• Design, provision, and maintain enterprise cloud infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform (Google Cloud Platform) or Alibaba Cloud using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles.
• Develop and maintain robust CI/CD automation pipelines for continuous deployment, automated testing, and release management.
• Architect and manage containerized environments using Kubernetes (GKE / ACK) and Docker, ensuring high availability, scalability, and resilience.
• Implement platform observability, monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions to maintain system health and proactively address performance issues.
• Drive cloud security, identity management (IAM), compliance, and governance best practices across all environments.
• Build automated self-service developer tools and platform APIs to accelerate application deployment and engineering velocity.
• Perform cloud cost optimization (FinOps), capacity planning, and architecture refinement to maximize performance and efficiency.
• Collaborate with development teams to troubleshoot complex infrastructure, network, and application deployment challenges.
• Establish operational readiness standards,, and site reliability engineering (SRE) practices.
• Maintain comprehensive documentation for platform architecture, operational procedures, and automation scripts.

Must Haves

• 5+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).
• Hands-on expertise in Google Cloud Platform (Google Cloud Platform - compute, networking, GKE, IAM, BigQuery) OR Alibaba Cloud (ECS, ACK, VPC, RAM, SLS).
• Strong proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, Pulumi, or CloudFormation/ROS.
• Hands-on experience with container orchestration using Kubernetes (GKE or ACK) and Docker.
• Demonstrated expertise in CI/CD pipeline development using tools like GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or ArgoCD.
• Proficiency in scripting and programming languages such as Python, Bash, Go, or Shell.
• Solid understanding of cloud networking (VPC, DNS, Load Balancers, Firewalls, VPN) and cloud security practices.
• Strong problem-solving skills with experience in troubleshooting distributed systems and cloud infrastructure.

Good to Have

• Professional Google Cloud Platform Certifications (e.g., Professional Cloud Architect, Professional DevOps Engineer) or Alibaba Cloud Certifications (ACP / ACE).
• Experience with Service Mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd) and GitOps tooling (ArgoCD, Flux).
• Knowledge of FinOps tools and cloud cost governance strategies.
• Familiarity with cross-cloud migration or multi-cloud deployment strategies (Google Cloud Platform + Alibaba Cloud).
• Experience with observability stacks such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or Google Cloud Operations / Alibaba SLS.