Engineer III (Platform Infrastructure Engineer)

Overview

Senior Platform Infrastructure Engineer on the Platform Infrastructure Operations Team, responsible for the operational health, maintenance and reliability of the Kubernetes infrastructure and in-cluster services that underpin Anaplan's SaaS offering.

What you'll do

• Lead platform maintenance tasks, upgrades and patching across Kubernetes clusters and in-cluster services to ensure stability and security.
• Design and implement automation efforts to reduce manual tasks and improve system reliability.
• Troubleshoot and resolve production issues, acting as a point of escalation for complex issues.
• Perform root cause analysis and participate in incident and problem management processes.
• Participate in on-call rotations and respond to incidents.
• Act as a technical lead, providing mentorship, guidance and code reviews for junior engineers.
• Partner with engineering leads across Platform Infrastructure to define the technical roadmap for the Kubernetes platform and cloud infrastructure.
• Collaborate with development teams, addressing queries and requests related to Kubernetes and infrastructure.
• Develop and improve observability by building dashboards and alerting within Grafana to drive improvements in MTTD and MTTR.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, mathematics, engineering or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Hands-on experience managing and supporting infrastructure in a Public Cloud environment (AWS, GCP or Azure).
• In-depth knowledge and operational experience with large-scale and multi-tenant Kubernetes environments.
• A solid understanding of Linux system administration.
• Proficiency with Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tooling such as Terraform.
• Experience with observability tools such as Grafana, Prometheus or OpenTelemetry.
• Software development or scripting skills for automation (e.g., Python, Go or Bash).
• Proven track record of designing, deploying and maintaining highly available cloud architectures.
• Experience working in an operational context, including an understanding of incident management and on-call responsibilities.

Nice to have

• Experience with Kubernetes in-cluster services such as Ingress Controllers (e.g., Traefik, Ingress NGINX), Cert Manager and a Service Mesh (e.g., Istio).
• Experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible.
• Understanding of Agile/Kanban methodologies.

Details

• Reports directly to the Engineering Manager.
• Location: Gurugram.