Hybrid Staff Platform Engineer

at Securonix

• Job title: Staff Platform Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Ansible, Apache, AWS, Cloud, Firewalls, Grafana, Hadoop, Jenkins, Kafka, Kubernetes, Linux, Microservices, Packer, Prometheus, Puppet, Python, Spark, Terraform
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Pune, India

About the role

• Staff Platform Engineer responsible for designing and deploying AWS Infrastructure. Join Securonix to innovate in cybersecurity with AI capabilities and cloud solutions.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement secure, scalable, and high-performance AWS cloud environments to support diverse workloads.
• Develop automation-first solutions for cloud data services provisioning, integrating IAM, networking, security policies as code, and observability from the ground up.
• Collaborate with developers and internal stakeholders to deliver automated, cloud-native, and AI-ready solutions.
• Implement fully automated, resilient, and observable infrastructure with FinOps best practices to enable cloud IaaS and PaaS services.
• Architect BYOC and BYOK solutions ensure compliance with security and governance policies.
• Develop cloud-native and hybrid architectures for Big Data applications, Snowflake, Hadoop, Kafka, and Solr.
• Ensure the integration of security analytics to monitor and protect cloud infrastructure.
• Implement IaC using Terraform, CloudFormation, and AWS CDK for provisioning cloud resources.
• Automate cloud infrastructure deployment and configuration to ensure consistency and scalability.
• Develop CI/CD pipelines for cloud infrastructure using tools like Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and AWS CodePipeline.
• Design and deploy containerized workloads using Amazon EKS and best practices for microservices architecture.
• Optimize Kubernetes workloads, including security policies, networking, and auto-scaling.
• Implement Kubernetes observability using Prometheus, Grafana, and AWS CloudWatch.
• Architect and enforce security best practices for data protection, IAM policies, encryption (BYOK), and network security.
• Implement zero-trust security and compliance frameworks (SOC2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR).
• Leverage AWS security services (GuardDuty, Security Hub, WAF, IAM, AWS KMS) to enhance security postures.
• Design security monitoring and analytics solutions for threat detection and incident response.
• Design and optimize AWS infrastructure for Hadoop, Snowflake, and Big Data workloads.
• Architect scalable Kafka and Solr clusters for real-time data processing and search indexing.
• Implement data lake and warehouse strategies integrating Snowflake, Optimize AWS resources for cost-efficiency using AWS Cost Explorer, Savings Plans, and auto-scaling.
• Implement logging, monitoring, and alerting strategies with CloudWatch, Datadog, and ELK stack, loki and fluentbit.
• Conduct capacity planning and infrastructure rightsizing for performance tuning.
• Work closely with security, data, DevOps, and development teams to align cloud strategy with business needs.
• Provide architectural guidance, documentation, and mentorship to teams.
• Evaluate and recommend emerging AWS technologies to enhance cloud capabilities.
• Lead initiatives to enhance infrastructure reliability, scalability, and performance.
• Maintain detailed documentation for automation workflows, system changes, and platform configurations.

Requirements

• Minimum 10+ years of relevant working experience.
• Experience in Aws services, cloud-native security, monitoring and logging tools, and Well-Architected Data Framework principles
• Experience with various CI/CD methodologies, container orchestration tools, and observability and performance monitoring technologies.
• Experience working in Linux environments.
• Expertise in designing secure, scalable architectures for BYOC, BYOK, Snowflake, Big Data, and Kubernetes.
• Strong knowledge of AWS networking, IAM, security frameworks, encryption (BYOK), and compliance standards.
• Deep understanding of Kafka, Solr, Hadoop, and security analytics platforms.
• Strong scripting and automation skills using Python, Bash, ANSIBLE.
• Experience in cloud cost management and FinOps.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools, preferably Terraform as mandatory.
• Expertise in end-to-end applications hosted on Kubernetes, emphasizing scalability, high availability, and fault tolerance.
• Solid understanding of cloud networking concepts, subnets, routing, load balancing, firewalls, and cloud security.
• Experience in Cloud logging, monitoring, and observability tools Cloud provisioning and configuration technologies (Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Packer, AWS CloudFormation)
• Strong understanding of AWS billing and ability to provide cost-optimal architectural designs.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to communicate and explain the design/deployment strategy to both technical & non-technical audiences.
• Good working knowledge of processes and procedures (like ITIL)
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills.
• Excellent collaboration skills and ability to work in a global team.
• Minimum of a 4-year degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.
• Preferred: AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional or AWS Security Specialty
• Experience with AI-driven security analytics and AWS-native threat detection tools.
• Hands-on experience with Apache Spark, EMR, and AI/ML workloads on AWS.

Benefits

• Health Insurance with a total sum insured is INR 7,50,000 Coverage: Self, Spouse, 2 kids, Dependent parents, or parents-in-law
• Personal Accident with total sum insured is INR 10,00,000
• Term Life Insurance with a sum assured for employees is 5 times fixed base pay is covered.