Sr Staff- Cloud IT Platform Engineering

Company:

Qualcomm India Private Limited

Job Area:

Information Technology Group, Information Technology Group > IT Engineering

General Summary:

• Platform Strategy & Architecture: Drive the multi-year platform roadmap across EKS maturation and multi-cloud expansion; establish scalable platform patterns for multi-tenant environments including cluster lifecycle, upgrade strategies, and operational readiness; co-own architectural governance as a peer to others in IT.
• Infrastructure as Code: Drive the Terraform platform strategy across module design, state management, multi-environment patterns, and IaC governance; establish reference implementations and guardrails that enable distributed engineering teams to deliver infrastructure consistently and safely at scale.
• Kubernetes Platform Engineering (EKS): Drive end-to-end cluster provisioning and lifecycle management including autoscaling with Karpenter, add-on lifecycle management, and cluster upgrade and rollout strategies; establish organizational standards for cluster operations that scale across multiple teams and environments.
• Cloud Implementation: Own & drive the deployment of platform solutions with a strong emphasis on AWS, Infrastructure as Code, and GitOps driven workflows.
• GitOps & CI/CD Enablement: Build and maintain GitOps workflows using Argo CD and CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, enabling repeatable, audited delivery patterns.
• Optimization & Performance: Continuously evaluate and tune platform capabilities and services to improve reliability, performance, and cost efficiency for development teams.
• Observability: Build and maintain robust monitoring/alerting and recovery processes for platform services and components leveraging Datadog and Prometheus/Grafana.
• Security & Policy: Implement secure-by-default cluster and workload patterns, including network and policy controls (e.g., Cilium and Kyverno), RBAC, and least-privilege access.
• Design & Collaboration: Contribute to technical design docs and proposals; collaborate with Platform Architects for validation/approval and drive implementation through delivery.
• Operations & On-call: Participate in a required on-call rotation, including potential 24/7 coverage; lead troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and corrective/preventative actions.
  
  
  

Minimum Qualifications:

• 15+ years of IT-related work experience with a Bachelor’s degree OR 12+ years of IT related work experience with Masters degree
• 5+ years hands-on experience operating Kubernetes in production environments; EKS strongly preferred
• 10+ years of hands-on experience designing & managing CICD pipelines; GitHub strongly preferred
• 3+ years hands-on experience with Micro-service applications deployment on Cloud platforms; EKS strongly preferred
• 3+ years of people management and technical leadership skills, with experience mentoring engineers, driving execution, and collaborating with cross‑functional stakeholders
• Strong hands-on experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code practices (modules, state management, environment promotion, CI integration)
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS, especially VPC/networking, IAM, and EKS-related services
• Strong hands-on experience with GitOps and CI/CD GitHub Actions & ArgoCD
• Strong hands-on experience with Helm/Kustomize, Kubernetes networking fundamentals
• Practical experience implementing and operating observability (metrics/logs/alerts) for platform services
  
  
  

Minimum Qualifications:

• 4+ years of IT-related work experience with a Bachelors degree.
  
  
  

OR

6+ years of IT-related work experience without a Bachelor’s degree.

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