Platform Engineer

Platform Engineer
Role Overview
The Platform Engineer will be responsible for designing, automating, and operating UIDAI’s core application and infrastructure platform to ensure high availability, scalability, and reliability across multiple data centres
This role focuses on Service Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles, observability, and infrastructure automation, ensuring that UIDAI systems consistently meet defined SLA/SLO targets
The position requires in-depth technical expertise in container orchestration, service mesh, CI/CD, monitoring, and distributed system reliability, combined with strong ownership, operational discipline, and collaborative problem-solving skills
Key Responsibilities
Platform Engineering & Reliability
Design and maintain scalable, secure, and fault-tolerant infrastructure for UIDAI’s core systems deployed across multiple DCs
Apply SRE principles — define, measure, and continuously improve SLIs/SLOs/SLAs for all mission-critical services
Build self-healing and automated recovery mechanisms for core applications and APIs
Perform capacity planning, failure testing, and reliability analysis
Infrastructure Automation & Configuration Management
Design and manage infrastructure provisioning and configuration using automation frameworks
Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform, Ansible, or Chef is desirable
Develop repeatable automation for environment setup, deployment, and monitoring across hybrid DC environments
Containerization, Orchestration & Service Mesh
Manage and optimise large-scale Kubernetes (K8s) clusters for production workloads
Implement and maintain Service Mesh (Istio/Linkerd) for secure, observable, and resilient service-to-service communication
Work with CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and ArgoCD (experience with any equivalent CI/CD platform is acceptable)
Ensure isolation, policy enforcement, and resource quota management across namespaces and tenants
Monitoring, Observability & Incident Management
Design and maintain the observability stack (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and OpenTelemetry)
Define and monitor SLOs (availability, latency, and error budgets) for all critical services
Develop automated alerting and runbooks aligned with UIDAI’s reliability goals
Lead Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and Post Incident Reviews (PIR) for continuous improvement
Collaboration & Governance
Collaborate with Product Managers, Architects, and Developers to ensure reliability and performance objectives are integrated into design
Standardise environments across development, staging, and production
Participate in architectural reviews and propose platform improvements to enhance scalability, resilience, and efficiency
Essential
B.E./B.Tech/B.Sc. in Computer Science, Information Technology, or an equivalent discipline from a reputed university
Minimum 6 years of experience
Desirable
Certifications such as CKA/CKAD, Terraform Associate, AWS/GCP DevOps Engineer, or equivalent
Recognized SRE/DevOps certifications (Google SRE, Linux Foundation, etc.)
UIDAI Values
Citizen Centricity
Ownership
Excellence
Comfort with Ambiguity

Work arrangement
No