Lead Platform Engineer

Overview

Hands-on technical leader responsible for designing, building and maintaining automation frameworks and platform services that support large-scale hybrid infrastructure environments, using Chef, Infrastructure as Code and DevOps tooling.

What you'll do

• Design, develop and maintain Chef cookbooks, recipes, roles and policy files to automate configuration management across cloud and on-prem environments.
• Build and maintain Chef Automate or equivalent orchestration pipelines for compliance, reporting and fleet management.
• Engineer reusable automation frameworks, including shared libraries, templates and patterns for consistent infrastructure provisioning.
• Integrate Chef automation with CI/CD pipelines, secrets management, artifact repositories and enterprise governance controls.
• Implement automated testing and validation for Chef code using tools such as Test Kitchen, InSpec and ChefSpec.
• Collaborate with cloud, platform and security teams to define and enforce configuration baselines, compliance policies and hardened system standards.
• Support the design and implementation of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM/Bicep) for provisioning compute, network and platform services.
• Troubleshoot complex automation, configuration and infrastructure issues across hybrid environments.
• Contribute to platform engineering initiatives such as self-service catalogs, GitOps workflows and automated remediation.
• Document automation patterns, architectural decisions and operational runbooks.

What you'll need

• 5–8+ years of experience in DevOps, platform engineering, infrastructure automation or configuration management roles.
• Strong hands-on experience with Chef Infra, including cookbook development, policy files, Test Kitchen and InSpec.
• Experience managing large-scale configuration management environments (Chef Server, Chef Automate or similar).
• Solid understanding of Linux systems administration, OS hardening and configuration lifecycle management.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure or GCP) and on-prem virtualization (VMware, Hyper-V).
• Strong scripting or programming skills (Ruby preferred for Chef, plus Python, Bash or PowerShell).
• Experience with CI/CD tooling such as GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins or Azure DevOps.
• Strong understanding of Git workflows, branching strategies and code review practices.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex automation and infrastructure issues across hybrid environments.

Nice to have

• Experience with Chef Habitat or application-level automation.
• Experience with Chef Automate for compliance, reporting and fleet orchestration.
• Familiarity with Terraform or other IaC tools for provisioning infrastructure.
• Experience with policy-as-code tools (OPA, Conftest, Sentinel).
• Background in security hardening, compliance frameworks or CIS benchmarks.
• Exposure to Kubernetes, Helm or container orchestration.
• Experience with monitoring and observability platforms (Prometheus, Datadog, Splunk, ELK).
• Knowledge of network automation or infrastructure APIs.

Details

• Location: Pune, India.