R&D Platform Engineer – GPQSS Digital- IDC

Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India Job ID: R0141640 Date Posted: 2026-08-25 Company Name: HITACHI ENERGY TECHNOLOGY SERVICES PRIVATE LIMITED Profession (Job Category): Engineering & Science Job Schedule:  Full time Remote: No Job Description: Platform Engineer The opportunity We are looking for a Platform Engineer to design, build, automate, and operate secure, scalable, and reliable engineering platforms that enable development teams to deliver cloud-native applications faster and with higher quality. The ideal candidate will have hands-on expertise in Azure, AKS, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Helm, Azure DevOps, GitOps, observability, and platform automation. This role requires strong ownership of developer experience, infrastructure automation, cloud operations, security-by-design, and platform reliability. The candidate will collaborate with architects, developers, DevOps engineers, cybersecurity teams, product teams, and business stakeholders to establish reusable platform capabilities, standards, and self-service solutions across the software delivery lifecycle. How you'll make an impact: Design, build, and maintain internal developer platforms that provide reusable services, templates, pipelines, and automation for application teams. Create and manage cloud-native platform components on Azure, AKS, Kubernetes, Docker, and container registries. Standardize CI/CD pipeline templates using Azure DevOps for build, test, security scanning, deployment, and release automation. Implement Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Helm, Ansible, or similar tools to provision and manage consistent environments. Enable GitOps and configuration-driven deployment practices for repeatable, auditable, and scalable platform operations. Build self-service capabilities for developers, 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 platform security controls including secrets management, container security, dependency scanning, image scanning, and policy enforcement. Support DevSecOps practices by integrating tools such as SonarCloud, Black Duck, MetaDefender, or equivalent security and quality gates into delivery pipelines. Implement authentication, authorization, API gateway, ingress, service mesh, and secure connectivity patterns for platform services. Partner with application teams to troubleshoot deployment, performance, networking, availability, and operational issues. Define platform standards, reusable architecture patterns, documentation, and best practices to improve developer productivity and governance. Evaluate and introduce automation, AI-assisted development, and platform engineering improvements that reduce manual effort and accelerate delivery. Your background