Senior Infra Engineer

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Infra Engineer based in India.

This role offers the opportunity to design, build, and operate enterprise-scale infrastructure platforms that support mission-critical applications. You will work across hybrid cloud and on-premises environments, driving automation, reliability, and scalability. The position focuses on modern platform engineering practices, including Kubernetes, GitOps, Infrastructure as Code, and observability. You will collaborate with engineering, security, and operations teams to deliver secure and highly available technology solutions. The role provides ownership of complex infrastructure challenges while contributing to platform modernization initiatives. You will play a key role in improving operational excellence, automation maturity, and developer enablement across large-scale environments.

Accountabilities:: The Senior Infra Engineer will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining robust platform services while ensuring reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency. The role requires strong technical ownership, hands-on engineering expertise, and collaboration across multiple technology teams.

Design, deploy, and operate enterprise-grade platform services across hybrid cloud and on-premises environments.

Build and maintain cloud-like infrastructure capabilities covering compute, storage, networking, data platforms, and observability services.

Develop and manage Infrastructure as Code solutions using Terraform to automate provisioning and infrastructure lifecycle processes.

Implement GitOps-based deployment workflows using tools such as ArgoCD and GitHub Actions.

Build, administer, and optimize Kubernetes clusters supporting production workloads.

Manage distributed data platforms, including Hadoop and EMR-based environments.

Design and operate distributed object storage solutions such as MinIO and S3-compatible platforms.

Deploy and optimize distributed caching technologies including Redis and Memcached.

Implement and maintain observability solutions using OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki.

Automate CI/CD pipelines and improve deployment reliability across multiple environments.

Ensure infrastructure availability, resilience, performance, and scalability through proactive monitoring and optimization.

Troubleshoot complex production infrastructure issues and perform root cause analysis.

Support capacity planning, scalability forecasting, and infrastructure performance improvements.

Collaborate with development, DevOps, security, and infrastructure teams to deliver reliable platform solutions.

Mentor junior engineers and promote infrastructure best practices.

Requirements:

The ideal candidate is an experienced infrastructure or platform engineering professional with strong expertise in cloud-native technologies, automation, and distributed systems. The role requires deep technical knowledge, problem-solving abilities, and the ability to work independently in a remote environment.

8+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or Infrastructure Engineering.

Proven experience designing and operating enterprise-scale infrastructure platforms.

Strong hands-on experience with hybrid cloud and on-premises environments.

Advanced Kubernetes administration skills, including cluster lifecycle management and production operations.

Strong knowledge of Infrastructure as Code practices, especially Terraform-based automation.

Experience with GitOps methodologies and tools such as ArgoCD and GitHub Actions.

Experience managing CI/CD pipelines and improving software delivery reliability.

Experience with distributed data platforms, including Hadoop or EMR-based infrastructure.

Knowledge of distributed storage architectures, including MinIO and S3-compatible solutions.

Experience with distributed caching platforms such as Redis and Memcached.

Strong understanding of observability practices and tools, including OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki.

Familiarity with artifact repositories such as Nexus or similar solutions is preferred.

Experience with Linux administration, operating system performance tuning, virtualization, and hypervisor troubleshooting.

Knowledge of backup, disaster recovery, capacity planning, and infrastructure optimization practices.

Experience supporting highly available distributed systems and cloud-native architectures.

Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills with a proactive approach to problem-solving.

Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Ability to manage priorities independently while working in a remote environment.

Strong ownership mindset focused on reliability, quality, and continuous improvement.

Benefits:

Fully remote full-time opportunity based in India.

Opportunity to work on large-scale enterprise infrastructure and cloud-native modernization projects.

Exposure to advanced technologies across Kubernetes, GitOps, automation, observability, and distributed systems.

Collaborative environment with experienced engineering and technology teams.

Opportunity to take ownership of critical platform engineering initiatives.

Career growth opportunities through technical leadership and continuous learning.

Ability to contribute to engineering best practices and platform improvements.

Flexible remote work environment supporting independent execution and collaboration.

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