Lead Platform Engineer AWS

Overview

Lead the engineering, operations, and continuous improvement of highly available, scalable, secure, and resilient cloud infrastructure for a mission-critical financial services platform, with AWS as the primary cloud platform and multi-cloud (Azure) work as business needs evolve.

What you'll do

• Serve as the technical lead for cloud platform engineering initiatives.
• Drive the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of cloud platform services.
• Define engineering standards, platform best practices, and technical roadmaps.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to engineers across Platform Engineering teams.
• Lead technical design discussions, architecture reviews, and implementation planning.
• Drive cloud modernization and automation.
• Design, build, and operate secure, scalable, and highly available AWS infrastructure.
• Support Azure platform engineering initiatives and contribute to multi-cloud solutions as business needs evolve.
• Design and manage AWS networking services including VPC, Route 53, Transit Gateway, Security Groups, Network ACLs, NAT Gateways, Internet Gateways, VPNs, Direct Connect, and Application/Network Load Balancers (ALB/NLB).
• Build and operate Kubernetes platforms (Amazon EKS preferred; AKS experience is beneficial).
• Manage container platforms including Docker, Amazon ECR (or equivalent container registries), container image lifecycle management, and artifact repositories.
• Design secure multi-account cloud environments with IAM, governance, networking, and security best practices.
• Build reusable Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform.
• Develop self-service platform capabilities that improve developer productivity and reduce operational overhead.
• Optimize cloud performance, scalability, availability, and cost using FinOps best practices.
• Implement backup, disaster recovery, and high availability strategies.
• Develop platform automation using Python, Bash, or Go.
• Collaborate with DevOps and application engineering teams to integrate Infrastructure as Code, Terraform, Kubernetes, and platform services into CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows.
• Promote GitOps practices and standardized deployment methodologies.
• Continuously improve platform automation and self-service capabilities.
• Design and implement end-to-end observability solutions using OpenTelemetry (OTel), Amazon CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK/OpenSearch, or similar platforms.
• Build monitoring, logging, tracing, dashboards, and alerting capabilities to improve platform visibility and reliability.
• Participate in an on-call rotation supporting business-critical production systems.
• Implement AWS security best practices, IAM governance, encryption, and least-privilege access.
• Partner with Security teams to remediate vulnerabilities and maintain compliance.
• Support audit readiness, governance, and platform security initiatives.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure, or Infrastructure Engineering.
• 5+ years of experience with public cloud platforms, with strong expertise in AWS.
• Working knowledge of Azure is expected.
• Strong expertise with AWS services including EC2, VPC, IAM, EKS, ECS, S3, EBS, RDS, Route 53, CloudWatch, Auto Scaling, ALB/NLB, KMS, Transit Gateway, VPN, and Direct Connect.
• Strong understanding of AWS networking architecture, hybrid connectivity, DNS, routing, load balancing, and security.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes (Amazon EKS preferred; AKS experience is beneficial).
• Hands-on experience with Docker, Amazon ECR (or equivalent container registries), container lifecycle management, and artifact repositories.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
• Experience integrating Infrastructure as Code, Kubernetes, and platform automation into modern CI/CD workflows using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitLab CI, or similar platforms.
• Strong scripting and programming skills using Python, Bash, or Go.
• Strong Linux administration experience.
• Experience implementing monitoring, logging, tracing, and observability solutions using OpenTelemetry (OTel), CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, Datadog, or similar technologies.
• Strong troubleshooting, production support, and incident management skills.
• Experience serving as a technical lead, providing engineering guidance, and driving cross-functional technical initiatives.
• Fluent written and oral communication in English.

Nice to have

• Exposure to Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Experience working across AWS and Azure cloud environments.
• Experience with GitOps tools such as ArgoCD or Flux.
• Experience with service mesh technologies such as Istio or Linkerd.
• Experience with distributed systems such as Kafka or Redis.
• Knowledge of Policy-as-Code and cloud security automation.
• Experience implementing FinOps practices and cloud cost optimization.
• Experience in financial services or other highly regulated industries.
• AWS Professional Certification.
• Azure and/or Google Cloud certifications.
• Kubernetes certifications (CKA or CKS).

Details

• Location: Bangalore, India.
• Hybrid work arrangement.
• Participation in an on-call rotation supporting business-critical production systems.