Platform Engineer
- Pune, Maharashtra
- Permanent
- Full-time
Location: Pune, Hybrid.
Status: Permanent, Full Time
Package: Competitive Salary (fixed), 5 Day Working Week, Remote/Home Working (with one-off allowance), Flexible Working, Development & Opportunity (Personal & Technical), Group Medical Policy, Group OPD Cover, Personal Accident Cover, Term Life Cover, 26 Days Leave + 9 Public Holidays + Buy & Sell Scheme, Referral Scheme.Why are we hiring a Platform Engineer?We are seeking a highly skilled Platform Engineer to join our dynamic team as we grow! In this role, you will work closely with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and maintain scalable, reliable, and high-performance platforms that power our applications and services. You will be responsible for ensuring the availability, performance, and security of the platform while collaborating with other engineers to create a seamless development experience.Who's Instem? Well, we're a global provider of bespoke industry-leading software solutions and services, which facilitate the pre-clinical, and clinical phases of the drug discovery process. We have over fifteen products in our portfolio, used by over 700 pharmaceutical clients (including all the top 20!)
Instem is a unique, solutions-based organisation. We've doubled in size over the last 3 years through new business and product enhancement, but also via acquisition. Our growth plan is progressive, and we need you to help us reach that next level!What's the culture/environment like? For a global business of over 300 staff, we very much have a family feel. You'll be part of a friendly, communal, solution based, flexible environment, where you'll feel empowered, valued and accountable. We'll invest in you as a person and encourage you to take part in companywide workshops for wellbeing, mental health, critical conversations, and strengths.What are you responsible for?
- Work with developers to ensure smooth integration and deployment pipelines.
- Develop and maintain automation and infrastructure as code (IaC) solutions to enhance operational efficiency.
- Design, build, and maintain infrastructure, tools and platforms to support internal and external applications and services.
- Monitor, troubleshoot and resolve issues related to platform performance, security, and scalability.
- Continuously evaluate and improve the architecture, tools, and processes to optimize performance and reliability.
- Implement best practices for system design, security, monitoring, and incident response.
- Collaborate with other engineering teams to provide infrastructure and platform support, ensuring systems are aligned with business needs.
- Build and maintain deployment pipelines using CI/CD tools to streamline application deployment.
- Ensure solutions are well documented.
- Participate in on-call rotation and incident management processes.
- Adherence to the Company's Quality Management System to ensure that all work is handled Securely, Professionally and Diligently
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.
- Proven experience as a Platform Engineer, DevOps Engineer, or Systems Engineer.
- Strong proficiency in Azure and associated services.
- Hands-on experience with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Proficiency in infrastructure automation and configuration management tools (ARM, Bicep, Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Chef, etc.).
- Solid knowledge of networking, security, and system administration principles.
- Strong experience with CI/CD tools (Azure DevOps).
- Experience with monitoring tools (DataDog, Azure Monitor, Prometheus, Grafana, New Relic, etc.).
- Familiarity with scripting and programming languages such as Powershell, Python, Bash, etc.
- Strong troubleshooting, problem-solving, and analytical skills.
- Experience with microservices architecture and managing cloud-native applications.
- Familiarity with databases and data pipelines (Oracle, Postgres, SQL, NoSQL, etc.).
- Understanding of security best practices and compliance standards (GDPR, SOC 2, etc.).
- Knowledge of configuration management frameworks like Helm and Kubernetes Operators.
- Experience moving from a managed data centre into public cloud.
- Working Citrix would be advantageous.
- Strong knowledge of networking and VPN's.