Cloud Platform Engineer
Posted 18 Mar 2025
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- Expected experience
- 1–3 yrs
- Management level
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- On-Site
- Contract
- Full-time
- Visa sponsorship
- Not offered
No salary listed for this role.
As a Cloud Platform Engineer at CSIT, you will research, explore and adopt modern cloud technologies to continuously evolve and modernize on-premise platform services. You will join the Runtime Platform team - responsible for delivering secure, reliable, and scalable platform services that abstract away infrastructure complexity, to enable software engineers to deploy and operate cloud-native applications efficiently while maintaining strong security and compliance standards. Our team operates a multi-tenanted platform services that has included many enhancements customized for our developers' unique use-cases to improve productivity. These include 3rd-party technologies as well as bespoke workflow enhancements
Responsibilities
- Design and build self-service platform, such as Message Queue service, Observability service, etc, that would enable developers to focus on coding, testing, and managing their cloud-native applications.
- Automate and simplify lifecycle operations, such as provisioning and scaling using Infrastructure-as-Code and GitOps workflow.
- Implement observability and alerting systems for the platform services, using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or Elastic Observability to meet service-level objectives (SLOs).
- Collaborate with security teams to integrate and enforce security controls and compliance requirements of the platform services.
- Work with application teams to improve platform usability, streamline onboarding, and reduce operational toil.
- Respond to incidents and perform post-incident reviews, driving continuous improvement and operational excellence.
- Contribute to the reliability engineering culture, fostering shared responsibility for system availability and performance.
- Collaborate with cross functional teams to define platform service requirements.
Requirements (Minimum Qualifications)
- A degree or professional qualification in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related field.
- Strong programming or scripting experience (e.g. HCL, YAML, Javascript, Python, or Bash).
- Good understanding of Linux systems, containers, networking fundamentals and distributed system operations.
- At least 1-3 years of hands-on experience operating cloud services in production