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Platform Engineering Lead (For client company)

Location: Pune, India

Experience: 7+ years 

What Success Looks Like

• Engineering teams ship faster with confidence and built-in guardrails.
• Cloud cost, security, and reliability are predictable, measurable, and well-managed.
• CI/CD pipelines are trusted, standardized, and production-ready.
• Platform decisions reduce cognitive load instead of introducing unnecessary process. 

Scope & Expectations

This is a hands-on leadership role combining architecture and implementation.

You will:

• Build, not just review.
• Own the platform roadmap—not just infrastructure tickets.
• Act as a force multiplier for product engineering teams rather than becoming a bottleneck.
• Drive platform strategy while remaining deeply involved in execution.

Key Responsibilities

Platform & Cloud Architecture

• Own Zoop's platform and cloud architecture across GCP and AWS.
• Design reusable, opinionated platform patterns instead of one-off infrastructure.
• Build and evolve Zoop's Internal Developer Platform (IDP), including:
• Self-service environments
• Golden paths (paved roads)
• Standardized templates
• Built-in engineering guardrails
• Lead Kubernetes and cloud-native adoption at scale.
• Drive infrastructure automation using Terraform, Pulumi, or similar Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools.

CI/CD, Reliability & Developer Experience

• Establish robust CI/CD practices with quality gates and production readiness.
• Improve deployment safety through automation and testing.
• Define and monitor:
• Golden Signals
• SLIs
• SLOs
• Incident response processes
• Reduce operational toil and improve developer productivity.
• Make observability a first-class capability using cost-efficient monitoring systems.
• Build an observability platform that multiple engineering teams can easily integrate into their applications.

Security, Privacy & Compliance

• Build security-by-default into infrastructure and deployment pipelines.
• Lead implementation and continuous compliance for:
• DPDP Act (India)
• ISO 27001:2022
• SOC 2 Type II
• Implement:
• Zero Trust architecture
• Least-privilege access
• Secure data isolation

FinOps & Cloud Optimization

• Make cloud costs transparent and accountable across engineering teams.
• Establish FinOps practices including:
• Budgets
• Cost alerts
• Optimization routines
• Drive build-vs-buy decisions using clear ROI analysis.

AI, Data & MLOps Foundations

• Build secure and scalable foundations for AI and MLOps workloads.
• Define guardrails for AI systems and sensitive data handling.

Leadership & Collaboration

• Partner closely with engineering teams to align infrastructure strategy with product goals.
• Mentor engineers and guide teams through technical change.
• Balance long-term platform initiatives with practical execution.

What We're Looking For

Experience

• 7+ years of experience building and operating production infrastructure.
• Experience scaling engineering platforms in high-growth or regulated companies.
• Strong hands-on expertise in:
• Kubernetes and the cloud-native ecosystem
• Service Mesh technologies
• Policy Engines
• GCP, AWS (Azure exposure is a plus)
• Terraform and Infrastructure as Code

Engineering & Operations

• Strong understanding of SDLC and modern CI/CD systems (Jenkins, GitOps, etc.).
• Experience with observability tools such as:
• Grafana
• Prometheus
• New Relic
• Comfortable reading and contributing to production systems written in:
• Go
• Python
• Node.js

Security & Compliance

• Practical experience implementing ISO 27001 and SOC 2 controls.
• Strong understanding of:
• Data protection
• Privacy
• Identity and access management
• Security best practices

Mindset

We're looking for someone who is:

• Action-oriented with sound engineering judgment.
• Analytical, cost-conscious, and reliability-focused.
• Collaborative, calm under pressure, and open to feedback.
• Comfortable challenging decisions and explaining trade-offs when necessary.

Nice to Have

• Experience in fintech, identity, or other regulated industries.
• Built Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) or shared infrastructure tooling.
• Contributions to open-source projects.