IG Group

Senior Platform Engineer

IG Group
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8 days ago
Bengaluru, IndiaSenior

Responsibilities

  • Design and build secure, scalable AWS infrastructure with Terraform and contribute to cloud technology evaluation and standardization.
  • Develop and maintain Puppet roles, profiles, modules, Hiera configuration, testing, linting, versioning, and controlled promotion across environments.
  • Use Ansible for orchestration and automation, and build GitLab CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and configuration delivery.
  • Manage AWS EC2 and Linux estates with AWS Systems Manager, including configuration, hardening, patching, and lifecycle management.
  • Automate certificate issuance, renewal, rotation, and expiry monitoring across Linux, load balancer, and Kubernetes environments.
  • Build and operate Kubernetes and EKS environments and deliver self-service platform tooling, including an internal developer platform such as Backstage.
  • Lead infrastructure modernization, operating-system migrations, tooling upgrades, and configuration-drift reduction.
  • Manage software dependencies, security patching, vulnerability remediation, RPM packages, and platform artefact repositories.
  • Define monitoring, alerting, and observability standards using tools such as Honeycomb, Prometheus, and Grafana.
  • Resolve complex infrastructure and configuration incidents, perform root cause analysis, and implement preventive measures.
  • Partner with platform and development teams, mentor junior engineers, and maintain technical documentation and engineering standards.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering, configuration management, and automation, including significant hands-on Linux and AWS experience.
  • Strong hands-on Puppet expertise, including roles, profiles, Hiera, module development, rspec-puppet, and puppet-lint.
  • Working experience with Ansible playbooks, roles, and inventory management.
  • Experience managing certificate lifecycles with certificate authorities and tools such as AWS Certificate Manager, including safe automated rotation.
  • Hands-on AWS platform experience, especially EC2, with knowledge of IAM, S3, VPC, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, and networking.
  • Practical AWS Systems Manager experience with State Manager, Run Command, Patch Manager, Parameter Store, and automation documents.
  • Hands-on Terraform experience; Terragrunt or equivalent tooling is preferred.
  • Experience designing multi-stage CI/CD pipelines using GitLab, Jenkins, or GitHub Actions, with secrets management, vulnerability scanning, and compliance practices.
  • Strong Linux administration experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9, Rocky Linux 9, or equivalent, including systemd, SELinux, and security hardening.
  • Strong Python and Bash skills; Go is a plus.
  • Experience with RPM package management and building, RPM repositories, and artefact repositories such as Artifactory or Nexus.
  • Working Kubernetes administration experience, preferably EKS, including networking, RBAC, pod security, and Docker image management; Istio is a plus.
  • Hands-on experience with Honeycomb, Prometheus, Grafana, monitoring, observability, and alerting standards.
  • Strong TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing, traffic management, troubleshooting, and cloud architecture knowledge.
  • Experience with security patching, vulnerability management, dependency hygiene, and preferably PCI DSS compliance frameworks.
  • Proficiency with Git and collaboration across GitLab, GitHub, and Bitbucket.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work arrangement requiring three days in the office.
  • Performance-related bonus, life insurance, medical insurance for the employee and family, and provident fund contributions from day one.
  • Employee assistance programme, gym membership contributions, and employer-provided lunch and snacks.
  • 15 days of annual leave, increasing to 20 days after two years of continuous service.
  • Birthday leave, two days of volunteering leave per year, mentorships, volunteering opportunities, networks, committees, awards, and sports and social clubs.

Tech Stack

AnsibleAWSBashDockerGitGitHub ActionsGitLab CI/CDGoGrafanaIstioJenkinsKubernetesLinuxPrometheusPuppetPythonTerraform

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About IG Group

1,001-5,000 employees

IG Group is a London‑headquartered, publicly traded online brokerage founded in 1974. It builds multi‑asset trading platforms for retail and professional clients, offering financial spread betting, CFDs, forex, share dealing, and crypto, with revenues from spreads, commissions, and financing. The company is listed on the London Stock Exchange and operates globally under the IG brand, serving traders across Europe, Asia‑Pacific, and North America.

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