Hybrid Senior Platform Engineer

at Securonix

• Job title: Senior Platform Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: AWS, Cloud, EC2, Firewalls, Hadoop, HBase, HDFS, Kafka, Kubernetes, Python, Redis, Terraform, Yarn
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Bangalore, India

About the role

• Senior Platform Engineer at Securonix designing AWS infrastructure automation. Collaborating on AI-driven, cloud-native solutions with a focus on security and scalability.

Responsibilities

• Develop automation-first solutions for cloud data services provisioning, integrating IAM, networking, security policies as code, and observability from the ground up.
• Collaborate with developers and internal stakeholders to deliver automated, cloud-native, and AI-ready solutions.
• Implement fully automated, resilient, and observable infrastructure with FinOps best practices to enable cloud IaaS and PaaS services.
• Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and CI/CD pipelines for cloud data platforms, data pipelines, and infrastructure components.
• Enable AI-driven workflows for infrastructure monitoring, optimization, and predictive maintenance — experience in AI workflow orchestration will be a plus.
• Work extensively in POC environments to validate solutions before production rollouts.
• Deploy and manage AWS services like EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, DMS, Redis, EMR, EKS.
• Design and deploy multi-tier, auto-scaling, high-availability architectures in enterprise and cloud environments adhering to business continuity best practices.
• Estimate AWS usage costs and implement operational cost-control mechanisms.
• Deliver in areas such as cloud network administration, security administration, provisioning, optimization, and third-party software support.
• Implement cloud security best practices and assess partner compatibility.
• Continuously monitor and optimize servers, networks, and infrastructure components for performance and security.
• Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure incidents with automation wherever possible.
• Conduct routine health checks and leverage automation for proactive issue detection.
• Participate in 24x7 on-call rotation to respond promptly to incidents.
• Lead initiatives to enhance infrastructure reliability, scalability, and performance.
• Maintain detailed documentation for automation workflows, system changes, and platform configurations.

Requirements

• Strong expertise in automation as a core skillset, leveraging IAC tools (Terraform preferred), CI/CD methodologies, and scripting (Python, Bash) to eliminate manual tasks.
• Experience with AI workflow integration in infrastructure automation (preferred).
• Proficiency in AWS services, cloud-native security, monitoring, and logging tools, along with Well-Architected Framework principles.
• Strong background in the Hadoop ecosystem (HDFS, YARN, HBase, Kafka, Solr) and performance tuning.
• Solid understanding of Kubernetes and container orchestration.
• Experience designing, deploying, and securing high-availability cloud solutions with cost optimization in mind.
• Knowledge of cloud networking (subnets, routing, load balancing, firewalls, VPC, IAM, NACLs).
• Experience in cloud logging, monitoring, and observability tools.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to present automation strategies to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Good working knowledge of ITIL processes and best practices.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related discipline.

Benefits

• Health Insurance with a total sum insured is INR 7,50,000 Coverage: Self, Spouse, 2 kids, Dependent parents, or parents-in-law
• Personal Accident with total sum insured is INR 10,00,000
• Term Life Insurance with a sum assured for employees is 5 times fixed base pay is covered.