Senior Platform Engineer
Optiva Inc.8 months ago
Hyderābād, IndiaSenior / Staff+
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and operate production-grade Kubernetes clusters.
- Build and maintain platform services including databases, message brokers, caching systems, observability, monitoring, and secrets management.
- Develop internal self-service tooling for developers.
- Automate infrastructure and platform provisioning using infrastructure-as-code and GitOps approaches.
- Improve platform reliability, scalability, security, and operational simplicity.
- Own CI/CD systems and deployment workflows.
- Implement observability standards covering metrics, logs, and tracing.
- Lead incident response and postmortem improvements.
- Reduce cognitive load for application teams through automation and platform services.
Requirements
- 6 to 12 years of experience.
- Strong hands-on experience operating Kubernetes in production.
- Deep understanding of Kubernetes networking, storage, stateful workloads, resource management, autoscaling, and Operators.
- Experience operating or building platform services such as databases, message brokers, and caching systems.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, Pulumi, or Crossplane.
- Experience with CI/CD systems and GitOps workflows.
- Experience with at least one cloud provider: AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Strong debugging and incident-response skills.
- Production mindset and reliability-first thinking.
- Nice-to-have experience with Telco/BSS domains, internal developer platforms, multi-tenant Kubernetes environments, service mesh, security hardening and policy enforcement, cloud cost optimization, or multi-region and disaster-recovery architectures.
Tech Stack
Apache CassandraApache KafkaAWSAzureGoogle Cloud PlatformIstioKubernetesMariaDBPostgreSQLRabbitMQRedisTerraform
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About Optiva Inc.
Optiva builds cloud-native BSS and revenue management software for communications service providers, including real-time charging, billing, and customer management deployed on public or private clouds. It sells enterprise software and managed services that help operators monetize 5G, IoT, and digital offerings. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario, Optiva is a public company listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: OPT).