Senior Platform Engineer

Role: Senior Platform Engineer - Azure

Experience Level: 4 to 7 Years

Work location: Mumbai, Bangalore & Trivandrum

Notice Period: 0-15 days(Serving Notice Period)

Role & Responsibilities:

• Design, provision, and maintain scalable Azure infrastructure using Terraform or Bicep.
• Containerize existing services with Docker and migrate workloads off VM-based CI/CD agents to managed container hosting (Azure Container Instances/App Service, with AKS as a growth path).
• Design and build event-driven backend infrastructure APIs, WebSockets/real-time messaging, and Redis-backed state to support low-latency, real-time processing pipelines.
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps/GitHub Actions), including introducing automated test gating.
• Build and maintain observability and monitoring (Azure Monitor/Application Insights or Prometheus/Grafana) for distributed services and pipeline health.
• Design API contracts and adapter/abstraction layers for integrating multiple third-party service providers behind a common interface.
• Support multi-tenant, configuration-driven onboarding patterns for new customers/business units.
• Own production deployments and post-production support for infrastructure and platform changes.
• Coordinate with business and support teams on testing, cutover, and migration activities.
• Produce clear technical design documentation, API contracts, and architecture decision records.

Skills expectation:

• Hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure (Blob Storage, Table Storage, Container Registry, Container Instances/App Service).
• Strong proficiency in Terraform and/or Bicep for Infrastructure-as-Code.
• Practical experience containerizing applications with Docker.
• Strong proficiency in TypeScript/Node.js, including ORM-based data access (e.g., Prisma) and relational databases.
• Experience with event-driven architectures WebSockets, Redis, and message-queue-based service integration.
• Experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines with automated test gating.
• Experience with observability/monitoring tooling (Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Prometheus/Grafana).
• Strong understanding of API design and vendor-abstraction/adapter patterns.
• Familiarity with multi-tenant, configuration-driven onboarding architectures.
• Comfort working across multiple related, independently-deployed services/codebases, including data schema versioning and governance.
• Familiarity with Databricks and/or Snowflake. (Nice to Have)
• Experience with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Prior experience migrating a legacy batch pipeline to an event-driven or real-time architecture. (Nice to Have).