Senior Platform Engineer - Hybrid (Chennai)
At a glance
Senior Platform & Infrastructure role at Tensure Consulting. Guindy · full-time.
Pay not stated Platform Engineer salary
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What you'll do
- Build and maintain custom software, then design, code and test applications across cloud and web technologies
- Create application documentation and protect software security and integrity
- Use custom code to automate business processes and push code daily
What you bring
- At least six years in platform engineering, DevOps or SRE
- Hands-on AWS or comparable cloud experience, plus Kubernetes and container orchestration
- Strong Infrastructure-as-Code and CI/CD pipeline skills, with Terraform preferred
- Experience operating production systems, with knowledge of observability, networking, cloud security and distributed systems
Who this fits
This senior, hands-on role suits someone who can work independently and troubleshoot production systems. You’ll work with engineering teams across geographies. The hybrid arrangement requires three office days.
From the employer
Who We Are
Tensure is a modern tech consultancy that tackles Cloud, Applications, and Data with open-handed expertise. We believe great work starts with teamwork so we’ve reimagined collaborative tech consulting. With a people-first approach and tangible solutions, our clients can do what makes them great while we optimize their tech stack. We’re clever and pragmatic but we also embrace the magic that happens when personality collides with technical excellence. Because ultimately, innovation isn’t boring (and neither are we).
Where You'll Come In
As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will design, build, and maintain the infrastructure and internal platforms that power production systems at scale. You will work closely with engineering teams across geographies to improve reliability, security, automation, and deployment velocity.
This is a hands on, senior level role requiring strong technical depth and the ability to operate independently.
What you'll do
- Developing and maintaining custom software solutions
- Working with different technologies, including GCP, AWS (primarily Cloud Functions) and web development
- Designing, coding, implementing, and testing applications
- Creating documentation and ensuring the security and integrity of software applications
- Automating business processes through custom code
- Daily code pushes
Requirements
- 6–9+ years of experience in Platform Engineering / DevOps / SRE
- Hybrid role - requires 3 days in the office
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS (or equivalent cloud platform)
- Experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration
- Deep knowledge of Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform preferred)
- Strong CI/CD pipeline experience (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, etc.)
- Experience with observability tools (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, etc.)
- Solid understanding of networking, cloud security, and distributed systems
- Experience managing production-grade systems
- Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills
- Ability to work independently in a fast-paced consulting environment
Some of our Perks
- Private healthcare plan w/parental insurance
- 25 days PTO (Sick, holiday and vacation) + 11 Company Holidays
- A transparent pay structure with a clear path to promotion
Understanding the interview journey
- An initial screening interview
- A technical interview (pairing - code challenge, case studies and/or hypothetical questions about how you would solve certain challenges)
- An interview with the team pertinent to your role
- A culture and values interview
- Offer Letter sent via email (or a decline with feedback)
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