Platform Engineer

Key Responsibilities
Design, build, and maintain scalable Platform as a Service (PaaS) infrastructure.
Deploy, manage, and troubleshoot Kubernetes clusters in production environments.
Administer and optimize Linux-based systems, including bare metal and on-premise infrastructure.
Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve critical production issues while ensuring high platform availability.
Participate in on-call rotations and incident response for production systems.
Develop production-grade software, platform services, and automation tools using modern programming languages.
Build reliable platform components, APIs, and infrastructure tooling to improve developer productivity.
Collaborate with software engineering, infrastructure, and DevOps teams to enhance platform reliability and performance.
Optimize system performance, scalability, and resource utilization.
Implement automation for infrastructure provisioning, deployment, monitoring, and operational workflows.
Contribute to platform architecture, security, observability, and operational best practices.
Support continuous improvement initiatives across platform engineering and site reliability functions.

Mandatory Skills & Experience
Linux & Bare Metal Infrastructure
Hands-on experience managing Linux servers in production environments.
Experience working with on-premise or bare metal infrastructure is highly preferred.
Strong troubleshooting skills across operating systems, networking, storage, and hardware.
Production Operations / Platform Support
Experience supporting mission-critical production environments.
Strong production troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills.
Ability to diagnose and resolve complex infrastructure and application issues.
Software Engineering
Strong software development experience with excellent coding skills.
Ability to design, develop, test, and maintain production-grade software.
Strong understanding of software engineering principles, system design, and debugging.
Kubernetes
Hands-on experience deploying, managing, upgrading, and troubleshooting Kubernetes clusters.
Strong understanding of container orchestration, networking, storage, and security within Kubernetes.