Platform Engineer

Platform Engineer - Offshore Lead

Remote – India | IST

We're looking for a senior Platform Engineer / Cloud Infrastructure Lead to take ownership of an offshore platform engineering function supporting large-scale data and AI infrastructure.

This is a hands-on leadership role where you'll be responsible for production operations, AWS infrastructure, automation, cost optimisation and leading an offshore engineering team.

What you'll be doing

• Lead offshore platform engineering and own production support during offshore hours
• Build and optimise AWS infrastructure, data pipelines and cloud environments
• Monitor and troubleshoot production systems, pipelines and infrastructure independently
• Drive AWS cost optimisation, resource utilisation and AI/cloud spend visibility
• Develop automation, internal tooling and services primarily using Python
• Work with Terraform, Docker, CI/CD, Kafka/event-driven systems and monitoring
• Lead, mentor and develop offshore engineers while coordinating with global/onshore teams

What we're looking for

• 8+ years of platform, infrastructure, cloud or DevOps engineering experience
• Strong, hands-on AWS experience across services such as EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, Glue, Athena, EMR and CloudWatch
• Strong Terraform / Infrastructure as Code experience
• Experience with Docker, CI/CD and production monitoring/incident response
• Strong Python and Linux/shell scripting skills
• Proven experience leading or mentoring engineering teams
• Experience with data pipelines, event-driven architectures and technologies such as Kafka, Airflow or Spark
• Comfortable making independent technical decisions and resolving production issues without constant escalation

Telecommunications / network infrastructure experience is highly desirable, but not essential.

If you're a senior AWS/Platform Engineer who enjoys being hands-on while leading an engineering function, apply below.