R&D Platform Engineer – GPQSS Digital- IDC
Hitachi, Ltd.2 months ago
Chennai, IndiaSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain internal developer platforms with reusable services, templates, pipelines, and automation.
- Manage cloud-native platform components on Azure, AKS, Kubernetes, Docker, and container registries.
- Create standardized Azure DevOps CI/CD pipeline templates for build, testing, security scanning, deployment, and release automation.
- Implement infrastructure as code and GitOps practices using tools such as Terraform, Helm, Ansible, Argo CD, or Flux.
- Build developer self-service capabilities including environment provisioning, deployment templates, monitoring dashboards, and operational runbooks.
- Improve platform reliability through observability, logging, metrics, alerting, SLOs, incident analysis, and continuous operational improvements.
- Integrate secrets management, container security, dependency scanning, image scanning, and policy enforcement into platform delivery workflows.
- Implement authentication, authorization, API gateway, ingress, service mesh, and secure connectivity patterns.
- Troubleshoot deployment, performance, networking, availability, and operational issues with application teams.
- Define platform standards, reusable architecture patterns, documentation, and best practices, and evaluate automation and AI-assisted development improvements.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
- Minimum 7+ years of experience in DevOps, cloud engineering, platform engineering, infrastructure automation, or cloud-native application delivery.
- Hands-on experience with Azure, AKS, Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, container registries, Azure DevOps pipelines, Terraform, Ansible, ARM/Bicep, or equivalent tools.
- Understanding of platform engineering concepts including developer portals, golden paths, self-service automation, reusable templates, and paved-road standards.
- Experience with GitOps, monitoring and observability, networking, ingress, DNS, certificates, load balancing, API gateways, identity, access control, and secure service-to-service communication.
- Experience with secrets management, OAuth, JWT, OpenID Connect, Keycloak, Azure Key Vault, DevSecOps, secure SDLC, threat modeling, vulnerability management, dependency scanning, image scanning, and compliance readiness.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, automation, problem-solving, communication, collaboration, documentation, and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to work independently, guide engineering teams, and drive adoption of platform standards and best practices.
- Proficiency in spoken and written English.
- Experience with Kafka, RabbitMQ, background jobs, .NET Core, Angular, full-stack development concepts, or GitHub Copilot is advantageous.
Benefits
- Full-time, on-site role in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
- Reasonable accommodation is available for qualified individuals with disabilities during the application process.
- Pre-employment background and, where applicable, enhanced security screening may be required with candidate consent and in accordance with applicable laws.
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About Hitachi, Ltd.
Hitachi, Ltd. builds industrial, energy, rail, and digital systems for governments and enterprises, combining operational technology with IT, cloud, and data infrastructure services. Its portfolio spans power grids, factory automation, data centers, rail systems, and consulting delivered through units such as Hitachi Vantara, Hitachi Rail, and Hitachi Energy. Founded in 1910 and headquartered in Tokyo, it is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and operates globally across critical infrastructure markets.