Infra Engineer

**This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for an Infra Engineer based in India.** This role offers the opportunity to design, build, and operate enterprise-grade infrastructure platforms that support critical business applications. You will work across cloud-native and hybrid environments, creating scalable, secure, and reliable platform capabilities. The position focuses on infrastructure automation, Kubernetes engineering, GitOps practices, observability, and distributed systems. You will collaborate with engineering, DevOps, security, and infrastructure teams to improve platform reliability and operational excellence. The ideal candidate will bring strong technical expertise, a problem-solving mindset, and experience managing complex production environments. This is a high-impact opportunity to shape modern infrastructure practices and contribute to large-scale technology transformation initiatives. ### Accountabilities: As an Infra Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining robust infrastructure platforms across hybrid and cloud environments. You will help automate operations, improve reliability, and enable engineering teams through scalable platform solutions. - Design, deploy, and operate enterprise-grade platform services across on-premises and hybrid cloud environments. - Build and maintain platform capabilities across compute, storage, networking, data processing, and observability. - Develop Infrastructure as Code solutions using Terraform to automate provisioning, configuration, and lifecycle management. - Implement GitOps-based deployment strategies using tools such as ArgoCD and GitHub Actions. - Build, administer, and optimize Kubernetes clusters supporting production workloads. - Manage distributed data platforms and large-scale infrastructure components, including Hadoop-based environments. - Design and maintain distributed object storage solutions such as MinIO and S3-compatible platforms. - Deploy and optimize distributed caching systems such as Redis and Memcached. - Implement enterprise observability solutions using OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki. - Automate CI/CD workflows to improve deployment speed, consistency, and reliability. - Ensure infrastructure scalability, availability, resilience, and operational excellence. - Troubleshoot complex production issues and perform performance optimization across platforms. - Support capacity planning, scalability initiatives, and infrastructure improvement projects. - Collaborate with cross-functional teams to establish strong platform engineering practices. ## Requirements: The ideal candidate is an experienced infrastructure or platform engineer with a strong background in automation, Kubernetes, distributed systems, and production environments. You should be comfortable working independently, solving complex technical challenges, and contributing to modern infrastructure strategies. - 8+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or Infrastructure Engineering. - Proven experience designing and operating enterprise-scale infrastructure platforms. - Strong hands-on experience with hybrid cloud and on-premises environments. - Advanced knowledge of Kubernetes administration, cluster lifecycle management, and production operations. - Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code, especially Terraform and infrastructure automation practices. - Experience with GitOps methodologies, ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, and CI/CD pipeline automation. - Experience managing distributed data platforms, including Hadoop or similar technologies. - Knowledge of distributed storage solutions such as MinIO and S3-compatible object storage. - Experience working with distributed caching technologies such as Redis and Memcached. - Strong understanding of observability platforms, including OpenTelemetry, Prometheus,…