Platform Engineer
On-sitePune, Maharashtra, India
Job Summary
Design and own the Internal Developer Platform, including self-service environment provisioning, golden-path CI/CD workflows, and service catalogue templates. Architect and operate a multi-cluster Kubernetes platform using EKS, AKS, and GKE, defining cluster topology and upgrade runbooks. Build and maintain platform-level services for secrets, certificates, service mesh, and load balancing. Define infrastructure standards via policy-as-code to enforce resource tagging and network policies across all teams. Own the developer toolchain for local environments, code quality gates, and ephemeral preview pipelines. Drive reliability through SLO definitions, error budgets, and automated remediation runbooks. Produce developer-facing documentation and host platform office hours to accelerate squad onboarding.
Required Qualifications
- 4+ years in platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, or a senior DevOps role with explicit platform-product ownership
- Deep Kubernetes expertise including multi-cluster federation, admission controllers, custom controllers/operators, and cluster API
- Experience designing and operating an Internal Developer Platform or developer portal — Backstage, Cortex, or equivalent
- Strong Terraform skills including provider plugin development or custom module library design
- Hands-on experience with policy-as-code tools (OPA, Gatekeeper, Kyverno) in multi-team environments
- Excellent written communication skills — platform engineers at Rubiscape write ADRs, runbooks, and RFC-style proposals that engineering leadership reviews
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with service mesh (Istio or Linkerd) in production multi-tenant Kubernetes clusters
- Contributions to open-source platform tooling or internal platform conference speaking
- Exposure to data/ML platform workloads — Spark Operator, Kubeflow, Ray, or MLflow on Kubernetes
- Knowledge of FinOps practices and experience implementing chargeback or showback for platform cost allocation
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