R&D Platform Engineer – GPQSS Digital- IDC

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Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India Job ID: R0141640 Date Posted: 2026-08-25 Company Name: HITACHI ENERGY TECHNOLOGY SERVICES PRIVATE LIMITED Profession (Job Category): Engineering & Science Job Schedule: Full time Remote: No Job Description: Platform Engineer The opportunity We are looking for a Platform Engineer to design, build, automate, and operate secure, scalable, and reliable engineering platforms that enable development teams to deliver cloud-native applications faster and with higher quality. The ideal candidate will have hands-on expertise in Azure, AKS, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Helm, Azure DevOps, GitOps, observability, and platform automation. This role requires strong ownership of developer experience, infrastructure automation, cloud operations, security-by-design, and platform reliability. The candidate will collaborate with architects, developers, DevOps engineers, cybersecurity teams, product teams, and business stakeholders to establish reusable platform capabilities, standards, and self-service solutions across the software delivery lifecycle. How you'll make an impact: • Design, build, and maintain internal developer platforms that provide reusable services, templates, pipelines, and automation for application teams. • Create and manage cloud-native platform components on Azure, AKS, Kubernetes, Docker, and container registries. • Standardize CI/CD pipeline templates using Azure DevOps for build, test, security scanning, deployment, and release automation. • Implement Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Helm, Ansible, or similar tools to provision and manage consistent environments. • Enable GitOps and configuration-driven deployment practices for repeatable, auditable, and scalable platform operations. • Build self-service capabilities for developers, including environment provisioning, deployment templates, monitoring dashboards, and operational runbooks. • Improve platform reliability through observability, logging, metrics, alerting, SLOs, incident analysis, and continuous operational improvements. • Integrate platform security controls including secrets management, container security, dependency scanning, image scanning, and policy enforcement. • Support DevSecOps practices by integrating tools such as SonarCloud, Black Duck, MetaDefender, or equivalent security and quality gates into delivery pipelines. • Implement authentication, authorization, API gateway, ingress, service mesh, and secure connectivity patterns for platform services. • Partner with application teams to troubleshoot deployment, performance, networking, availability, and operational issues. • Define platform standards, reusable architecture patterns, documentation, and best practices to improve developer productivity and governance. • Evaluate and introduce automation, AI-assisted development, and platform engineering improvements that reduce manual effort and accelerate delivery. Your background • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field. • Minimum 7+ years of experience in DevOps, cloud engineering, platform engineering, infrastructure automation, or cloud-native application delivery. • Strong hands-on experience with Azure, AKS, Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, container registries, and cloud-native deployment patterns. • Strong experience in Azure DevOps pipeline design, YAML pipelines, release automation, branching strategies, and reusable pipeline templates. • Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Ansible, Helm, ARM/Bicep, or equivalent tools. • Good understanding of platform engineering concepts such as developer portals, golden paths, self-service automation, reusable templates, and paved-road standards. • Experience with GitOps tools and practices such as Argo CD, Flux, or equivalent configuration-driven deployment approaches. • Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Azure Monitor, Application Insights, or similar platforms. • Good understanding of networking, ingress controllers, DNS, certificates, load balancing, API gateways, and secure service-to-service communication. • Experience with secrets management, identity, access control, OAuth, JWT, OpenID Connect, Keycloak, Azure Key Vault, or equivalent solutions. • Knowledge of DevSecOps, secure SDLC, threat modeling, vulnerability management, dependency scanning, image scanning, and compliance readiness. • Experience supporting event-driven or distributed systems using Kafka, RabbitMQ, background jobs, or similar integration patterns is an advantage. • Good understanding of application architecture, microservices, REST APIs, .NET Core, Angular, or full stack development concepts is an advantage. • Strong analytical, troubleshooting, automation, and problem-solving skills with the ability to resolve complex platform and production issues. • Strong communication, collaboration, ownership, documentation, and stakeholder management skills. • Ability to work independently, guide engineering teams, and drive adoption of platform standards and best practices. • Proficiency in English, both speaking and writing. • Experience with AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot is an advantage. 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