Lead Platform Engineer (Productivity & Compl)

About Us

Location- Hyderabad

Level - Team Leader

Department - Product R&D

Working Pattern - Work from Office

Benefits - Benefits at Ideagen

Salary - To be discussed at next stage

At Ideagen, we're building the platforms that enable our product teams to innovate at scale. We're looking for a Lead Platform Engineer to drive the technical direction of our Productivity and Compliance platform engineering squad, delivering the infrastructure, automation, and guardrails that power a growing portfolio of products.As a hands-on technical leader, you'll shape and deliver the platform capabilities that help engineering teams build, deploy, and operate software securely and efficiently. You'll combine deep technical expertise with leadership and mentoring, ensuring scalable, reliable, and future-ready platform solutions while supporting engineers in adopting modern AI-assisted engineering practices.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the technical direction for Platform - Productivity and Compliance.
• Design, build, and maintain cloud-native infrastructure using Terraform, Kubernetes, Python, and Go.
• Lead platform architecture decisions across cloud hosting, automation, security, observability, and resilience.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Security, and Operations teams to deliver scalable platform services.
• Coach and mentor Platform Engineers, promoting engineering excellence and continuous improvement.
• Own delivery commitments, manage technical risks, and contribute to roadmap planning.
• Drive infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, GitOps, and automation best practices.
• Champion AI-assisted engineering practices while ensuring appropriate governance and quality controls.

Skills and Experience

• Strong platform, cloud, or infrastructure engineering experience.
• Deep expertise in AWS and Infrastructure as Code, particularly Terraform.
• Experience with container platforms, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and Git-based workflows.
• Strong understanding of security, reliability, observability, and disaster recovery principles.
• Proven ability to lead technical direction while remaining hands-on.
• Experience coaching engineers and influencing technical decisions across teams.

What is next?

If your application meets the requirements for this role, our Talent Acquisition team will be in touch to guide you through the next steps.

To ensure a flexible and inclusive process, please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments by contacting us at recruitment@ideagen.com. All matters will be treated with strict confidence.

At Ideagen, we value the importance of work-life balance and welcome candidates seeking flexible or part-time working arrangements. If this is something you are interested in, please let us know during the application process.

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