Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients throughout India and world-wide. The below client is a global software and cloud solutions provider that helps organizations buy, manage, and optimize their technology through both a marketplace and a comprehensive suite of services
Job Title: Cloud Platform Engineer
Location: Bangalore
Job Type: Contract
Work Type: Onsite
Job Description:
- Specialist with 12+ years of experience delivering large-scale cloud infrastructure modernization, platform engineering, and migration programs across enterprise and telecom environments.
- Strong expertise in assessing application and infrastructure readiness, planning migration strategies, and executing workload transitions from virtualized platforms to Kubernetes/OpenShift environments running on bare metal and cloud infrastructure.
Core Expertise
- Cloud migration planning, readiness assessments, dependency analysis, and migration execution.
- Virtual machine to container platform migrations (VMware/OpenStack to Kubernetes/OpenShift).
- Kubernetes and OpenShift cluster validation, operations, troubleshooting, and lifecycle management.
- OpenStack administration, operations, and infrastructure management.
- Linux systems administration, automation, and shell scripting.
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible) and operational automation.
- Storage validation and persistence management (including Ceph-backed environments).
- CI/CD, GitOps, and DevOps practices.
- Monitoring, observability, and production health validation using enterprise monitoring platforms.
- Infrastructure troubleshooting, performance optimization, and operational support.
- Cross-functional collaboration with networking, storage, platform, and application teams during migration programs.
Technical Skills
- Container Platforms: Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker
- Cloud Platforms: OpenStack, Azure, AWS, Google Cloud
- Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Ansible
- Automation & Scripting: Bash, Python
- Monitoring & Logging: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, OpenSearch, Datadog
- CI/CD & DevOps: Jenkins, GitLab CI, ArgoCD, CircleCI, GitOps
- Configuration Management: Puppet, Chef
- Storage: Ceph, Persistent Volumes
- Operating Systems: Linux/Unix
- Version Control: Git
- Databases: Redis
Key Strengths
- Leading end-to-end cloud migration and modernization initiatives.
- Developing migration runbooks, validation procedures, rollback plans, and cutover strategies.
- Performing infrastructure health checks, dependency validation, and post-migration verification.
- Automating operational processes to improve repeatability and reduce manual effort.
- Troubleshooting complex cloud-native infrastructure across compute, networking, storage, and container platforms.
- Working in mission-critical enterprise and telecom environments with high availability requirements.
- Providing technical leadership, mentoring engineers, and collaborating with global delivery teams.
Relevant Certifications
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
- Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS)
- Red Hat OpenStack Certification
- Microsoft Azure Administrator (AZ-104)
- Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)
- Additional certifications in Kubernetes, OpenStack, Nutanix, and IT Service Management.
Ideal Profile Keywords
- Cloud Migration | Kubernetes | OpenShift | OpenStack | Platform Engineering | Cloud Infrastructure | Infrastructure Modernization | Linux | Terraform | Ansible | DevOps | Automation | Ceph | Infrastructure Readiness | Migration Assessment | Cloud Operations | Production Support | Enterprise Infrastructure | Telecom Cloud | Bare Metal Kubernetes
TekWissen® Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.
