FASTTEK GLOBALpowered by Fast Switch - Great Lakes
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Platform Engineer #1065711Position Description:
- The Platform Engineer will help build and operate platform capabilities that make service deployment easier, safer, and more consistent for engineering teams.
- The role will develop CI/CD automation and self-service workflows for deploying approved containerized services to OpenShift/Kubernetes environments.
- It will work with application teams, platform operations, and security stakeholders to improve delivery workflows and support the service lifecycle.
- Openshift
- CI/CD
- Automation
- GitHub
- Python
- TERRAFORM
- Senior Engineer Exp: Proficient In 2 coding lang. or adv. Prac. in 1 lang.; guides.
- 10+ years in IT
- 8+ years in development
- Practical experience deploying and supporting containerized workloads on OpenShift or Kubernetes.
- Experience developing or maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Tekton or a comparable tool.
- Working knowledge of container images, registries, version control, and deployment configuration.
- Experience automating repeatable deployment or operational tasks through scripting or workflow tools.
- Understanding of secure delivery practices, including access controls, validation, secrets handling, approvals, and auditable changes.
- Strong troubleshooting, documentation, and communication skills.
- Experience with internal developer portals, service catalogs, or self-service provisioning.
- Experience creating reusable deployment templates, workflows, or "golden paths."
- Familiarity with GitOps and declarative deployment practices.
- Experience integrating software composition, security, or license scanning into CI/CD.
- Experience supporting stateful services and planning upgrades, recovery, and rollback.
- Apache NiFi experience is beneficial but not required unless the role specifically owns NiFi.
- Bachelor's Degree
- Build and maintain self-service workflows for provisioning and deploying approved services.
- Develop and support CI/CD pipelines for building, validating, packaging, releasing, and deploying containerized services.
- Create reusable templates and documented deployment paths to reduce manual coordination for routine deployments.
- Integrate workflows with source control, container registries, scanning tools, and deployment configuration repositories.
- Apply appropriate validation, approval, access-control, and audit requirements.
- Support service configuration, upgrades, troubleshooting, rollback planning, and decommissioning.
- Document platform workflows, usage guidance, and operational procedures.
- Gather user feedback and use available measures—such as provisioning time and workflow success—to improve the platform.
- Collaborate with application owners, platform teams, security, and operations.