An experienced and highly hands-on Platform Engineering / CI/CD Lead developer to drive the design, implementation, and optimization of modern CI/CD pipelines, platform infrastructure, and deployment frameworks for both new products and existing platforms at scale. This role requires exceptional technical depth in cloud-native environments, containerization, automation, and high-availability architectures. The candidate will combine leadership with hands-on expertise to ensure scalable, secure, globally distributed, multi-region architectures with cutting-edge tools and high-performing delivery pipelines for a global SaaS environment for enterprises.
You will be
Highly hands-on despite being a lead position, and must be comfortable working directly with code, pipelines, infrastructure, and deployments while guiding the team in adopting best practices and delivering results at scale.
Responsibilities
- Platform Engineering & CI/CD Ownership
- Infrastructure & Cloud-Native Expertise
- Containerization & OS Expertise
- Security & IAM
- Databases & Caching
- Collaboration & Leadership
- Preferred Tools & Frameworks Experience
Following are the required skills
Platform Engineering & CI/CD Ownership
- Lead the design, development, and optimization of end-to-end CI/CD pipelines for multiple environments (development, staging, production).
- Integrate static code analysis, security scanning, automation testing, integration testing, and system testing tools into the pipeline.
- Ensure blue-green and canary deployments, rollback strategies, and zero-downtime deployment practices are followed.
- Own the release management process and coordinate with cross-functional teams for smooth, reliable deployments.
Infrastructure & Cloud-Native Expertise
- Architect and manage infrastructure for high-volume traffic SaaS applications deployed globally.
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS services
- Compute & Networking: EC2, VPC, Route 53, Auto Scaling, Elastic Load Balancing
- EKS: Container, Pod, Services, Namespaces, Node Group, Volumes , Ingress , Auto Scaling , Helm Charts
- Storage & Databases: RDS, DynamoDB, Elasticache , (Redis/Memcached)
- Networking & Security: AWS WAF, Security Groups, VPC Peering, Transit Gateway
- IAM: Role-based access control, fine-grained policies, key and secret management (AWS KMS, Secrets Manager)
- Monitoring & Cost Management: CloudWatch, New Relic, AWS Cost Explorer, cost segregation strategies
- Knowledge of multi-region architecture and global traffic management with failover and replication strategies.
Containerization & OS Expertise
- Strong proficiency in Docker and Kubernetes (EKS) with deployment at scale involving hundreds/thousands of pods.
- Strong working knowledge of Linux and Windows server environments for hybrid workloads.
- Experience in large-scale container orchestration for enterprise or SaaS products.
Security & IAM
- Deep understanding of Identity and Access Management in cloud and on-premises systems.
- Experience with Keycloak, OIDC/OAuth2, Okta, or similar identity providers.
- Proven track record in secure pipeline and environment configuration.
Databases & Caching
- Strong knowledge of both relational (MySQL/PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB, DynamoDB, Cassandra) databases and replication.
- Experience with caching systems (Redis, Memcached) for large-scale, high-performance workloads.
Collaboration & Leadership
- Lead cross-functional teams to drive DevOps best practices across engineering groups.
- Collaborate with product, engineering, and QA to streamline software delivery and ensure reliability.
- Provide technical mentorship and enforce industry-leading CI/CD standards.
Preferred Tools & Frameworks Experience
- CI/CD: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, ArgoCD
- Testing Integrations: Selenium, JUnit, Postman, REST Assured
- Security & Analysis: SonarQube, Snyk, OWASP ZAP
- Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, New Relic, ELK Stack, Open Telemetry
- Secrets Management: AWS KMS, Vault, Secrets Manager
Soft Skills
- Excellent communication skills - oral, written, presentation.
- Ability to set priorities, develop and execute a clear and concise plan, and drive execution.
- Work in collaboration with Cross functional team
- Take ownership, think innovation and clearly understand problem to handle ambiguities in large projects.
This role is highly hands-on despite being a lead position, and the candidate must be comfortable working directly with code, pipelines, infrastructure, and deployments while guiding the team in adopting best practices and delivering results at scale.
Qualifications & Experience
- 12+ years of experience in software delivery, with at least 5 years in platform engineering / DevOps leadership roles.
- Proven experience in building and scaling CI/CD pipelines in large enterprise or SaaS environments.
- Strong architecture skills for cloud-native, multi-region, high-availability platforms.
- Experience in large-scale deployments with high-volume, globally distributed traffic.
- Excellent knowledge of security best practices, IAM, and compliance requirements.
