Lead Platform Engineer
S&P Global1 day ago
Gurgaon, India or Hyderābād, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own the platform engineering roadmap, architecture, and delivery from design through production.
- Lead, mentor, and grow a team of engineers while setting technical standards and reviewing designs.
- Plan and track delivery across workstreams, dependencies, risks, and stakeholder communications.
- Define platform metrics and use them to prioritize investment and demonstrate value.
- Design, implement, and maintain enterprise CI/CD pipelines and DevOps tooling across GitHub Enterprise Cloud, Azure DevOps, and GitHub Actions hosted runners.
- Administer GitHub Enterprise Cloud, including repository governance, branch policies, access controls, and enterprise configuration.
- Manage repository creation, ownership, archival, and version-control standards.
- Drive the internal developer portal and self-service strategy, including catalogs, templates, and workflows.
- Provision, secure, and optimize AWS services supporting the developer platform.
- Integrate security, quality, and artifact-management tools into developer workflows.
- Own and operate AI-assisted development tools, developer agents, and MCP integrations while measuring adoption and productivity impact.
- Build automation for identity and access provisioning, onboarding, environment setup, compliance checks, and routine platform operations.
- Partner with engineering, security, SRE, architecture, DevOps/TechOps, and BISO teams to maintain governance and operational readiness.
- Create documentation, runbooks, and enablement materials to support self-service adoption.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering roles.
- Strong hands-on experience administering GitHub Enterprise Cloud, GitHub Actions, hosted runners, GHAS, and Azure DevOps.
- Deep expertise in enterprise-scale CI/CD pipeline design and automation.
- Strong understanding of repository lifecycle management, Git workflows, branching strategies, Conventional Commits, semantic versioning, and pull-request workflows.
- Proficiency with Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK, and configuration-management tools.
- Solid AWS experience across compute, networking, storage, IAM, and container orchestration, including ECS/EKS.
- Understanding of CMDB and ITIL-aligned change management, including change requests, approvals, and audit trails.
- Experience building or extending internal developer portals such as Backstage or Port.
- Familiarity with ServiceNow and data platforms such as Databricks.
- Strong scripting and automation skills with Python, Bash, and TypeScript/Node.js.
- Strong communication skills and ability to influence adoption across engineering teams.
- Preferred: experience leading CI/CD migrations, working in regulated environments, using AI-assisted development tools and developer agents, building developer productivity metrics, contributing to Backstage plugins or IDP ecosystems, applying FinOps and cloud cost optimization, and using OPA or Sentinel.
- Preferred: AWS Solutions Architect or DevOps Engineer certifications, or Kubernetes CKA/CKAD certification.
- Preferred: bachelor’s degree or higher in a technology-related field.
Benefits
- Health care coverage for mind and body.
- Generous flexible time off.
- Continuous learning resources, training, cloud certifications, and knowledge sharing.
- Competitive pay, retirement planning, continuing education, company-matched student loan contribution, and financial wellness programs.
- Family-friendly benefits and perks.
- Retail discounts and referral incentive awards.
- Role located in Hyderabad, Telangana, India.