Lead Engineer - DevOps & Platform Engineering

Bangalore, Karnataka
Permanent
Full-time

10 days ago
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At Mindera, we’re building a world-class DevOps and Platform Engineering practice to power next-generation software delivery across GCP and Azure. We're looking for a Lead Engineer – DevOps & Platform Engineering who thrives on designing scalable, secure, and developer-friendly platforms.In this high-impact leadership role, you'll own end-to-end platform initiatives and help shape our cloud infrastructure strategy. You’ll work closely with cross-functional squads to improve deployment speed, platform resilience, and engineering efficiency.
Responsibilities:

Lead the vision and implementation of platform engineering strategy across GCP and Azure.
Design and scale multi-tenant Kubernetes infrastructure with security and configurability at the core.
Own and evolve CI/CD pipelines using ArgoCD, Crossplane, Terraform, Kustomize, and Helm.
Implement GitOps workflows for consistent, repeatable deployments.
Improve infrastructure reuse, reduce environment sprawl, and optimize cost efficiency.
Build observability frameworks using Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, and InfluxDB.
Champion DevSecOps by embedding compliance and security as code across all environments.
Develop reusable templates, internal tools, and self-service capabilities to boost developer productivity.
Collaborate with product leaders and architects to align infrastructure goals with business outcomes.
Mentor engineers and promote a culture of automation, excellence, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

10+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering roles.
Hands-on experience with:

GCP and Azure
Kubernetes
ArgoCD (Must Have)
Crossplane (Must Have)
Terraform, Helm, Kustomize
Strong understanding of:

CI/CD automation
GitOps workflows
Multi-tenant architecture
Infrastructure standardization
Experience with observability tools: Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, InfluxDB.
Deep knowledge of DevSecOps, security-by-design, and compliance automation.
Proven leadership experience driving platform engineering initiatives.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills across engineering and product teams.

💡 Nice to Have:

Experience with GenAI/LLMs in engineering workflows.
Exposure to policy-as-code and compliance frameworks.
Experience in fast-paced, product-led engineering environments.

Benefits

Fun, happy and politics-free work culture built on the principles of lean and self-organisation;
Work with large scale systems powering global businesses;
Competitive salary and benefits.

About MinderaAt Mindera we use technology to build products we are proud of, with people we love.Software Engineering Applications, including Web and Mobile, are at the core of what we do at Mindera.We partner with our clients, to understand their product and deliver high performance, resilient and scalable software systems that create an impact in their users and businesses across the world.You get to work with a bunch of great people, where the whole team owns the project together.Our culture reflects our lean and self-organisation attitude. We encourage our colleagues to take risks, make decisions, work in a collaborative way and talk to everyone to enhance communication.We are proud of our work and we love to learn all and everything while navigating through an Agile, Lean and collaborative environment.Check out our Blog: and our Handbook:Our offices are located: Aveiro, Portugal | Porto, Portugal | Leicester, UK | San Diego, USA | San Francisco, USA | Chennai, India | Bengaluru, India

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