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    Optiva

    Telecommunications Software

    Senior Platform Engineer

    Hyderabad, IndiaOn-SiteFull-time6–12 yrs experiencePosted 1mo ago
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    Job description

    It's fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they're doing!

    We're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business.

    Job Summary

    We are looking for a hands-on Senior Platform Engineer (Kubernetes Platform & Platform Services) with 6 to 12 years of experince to design, build, and operate our internal cloud/hybrid platform powered by Kubernetes. This role is for engineers who don’t just maintain infrastructure — they build platform products and services that enable development teams to move fast, safely, and reliably.You will take end-to-end ownership of platform services such as databases, message queues, caching systems, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and developer tooling. We expect strong engineering fundamentals, deep Kubernetes expertise, and a product mindset toward internal platforms.This is not a ticket-driven operations role. This is a builder role.

    What You Will Do

    • Design, implement, and operate production-grade Kubernetes clusters

    • Build and maintain platform services:

      • PostgreSQL / MariaDB / Cassandra / etc.

      • Kafka / RabbitMQ

      • Redis

      • Observability / Monitoring stack

      • Secrets management

      • And many more

    • Develop internal self-service tooling for developers

    • Automate infrastructure and platform provisioning (IaC, GitOps)

    • Improve reliability, scalability, and security of the platform

    • Own CI/CD systems and deployment workflows

    • Implement observability standards (metrics, logs, tracing)

    • Lead incident response and postmortem improvements

    • Continuously reduce cognitive load for application teams

    Required Skills & Experience

    • Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production

    • Deep understanding of:

      • Networking (CNI, Ingress, Load Balancers, Service Mesh)

      • Storage and Stateful Workloads (CSI, Snapshots, StatefulSets, storage classes)

      • Resource management (requests/limits, autoscaling)

      • Kubernetes Operators

    • Experience operating or building platform services:

      • Databases (replication, backup, failover)

      • Message brokers (partitioning, durability, scaling)

      • Caching systems

    • Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi, Crossplane, etc.)

    • CI/CD systems and GitOps workflows

    • Experience with at least one cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure)

    • Strong debugging and incident response skills

    • Production mindset and reliability-first thinking

    Nice to Have

    • Telco/BSS domain knowledge

    • Experience building internal developer platforms

    • Multi-tenant Kubernetes environments

    • Service mesh (Istio, Linkerd)

    • Security hardening & policy enforcement

    • Cost optimization in cloud environments

    • Multi-region or disaster recovery architectures

    What We Value

    End-to-End Ownership

    You build it, you run it, you improve it.

    Strong Hands-On Engineering

    We expect engineers who write code, automate everything, and dive deep into root causes.

    Platform-as-a-Product Thinking

    The platform is a product for developers. Developer experience matters.

    High Standards

    We optimize for long-term maintainability, reliability, and simplicity.

    Continuous Improvement

    Blameless postmortems, automation over manual processes, and learning from failure.

    What Success Looks Like
    • Developers can provision systems in minutes, not days.

    • Platform incidents are rare and well-understood.

    • Scaling is predictable.

    • Deployments are boring.

    • The platform accelerates product teams instead of blocking them.

    Job details are sourced from the employer's original posting.

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    About the company

    Optiva

    Optiva provides cloud-native software solutions for the telecommunications industry.

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