Senior Platform Engineer - Lead

Job description

Role Purpose

As a hands-on Senior Platform Engineer – Lead, you will work within the Infra Delivery APAC team to transform from server-based infrastructure to a modern, AWS/Cloud-native platform. You will lead the design, build, secure, and operate cloud platforms and delivery pipelines; coach DevOps and infrastructure colleagues to uplift skills; and embed a disciplined plan‑build‑test‑release‑deploy‑monitor rhythm across teams. You are comfortable with frequent, incremental testing and deployments and champion a DevOps culture of automation, reliability, and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities

Leadership & Influence

• Mentor and educate DevOps and infrastructure teammates to build competent, professional DevOps practice.
• Establish and socialize standards across:
  • Continuous Integration (CI)
  • Continuous Delivery (CD)
  • Microservices
  • Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
  • Monitoring & Logging
  • Communication & Collaboration
• Translate business requirements into robust, scalable and replicable platform solutions aligned with enterprise architecture.
• Act as a technical advisor and trusted partner across engineering, operations, data, and security.
• Drive process improvements for seamless handovers to operations and ensure knowledge redundancy.
• Proactively identify opportunities to support global colleagues and streamline ways of working.

Cloud Platform Engineering (AWS/Cloud)

• Design, provision, and operate secure, scalable AWS/Cloud environments.
• Build patterns for networking, compute resources, storage, identity, observability, and security guardrails.
• Migrate on-premises workloads to AWS/Cloud, modernizing where appropriate (containers/serverless, managed data services).

DevOps SDLC & Automation

• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines with automated build, test, security scans, and deployment gates.

Microservices & Application Platform

• Support teams adopting microservices: service boundaries, APIs, contracts, schema/versioning, and eventing patterns.
• Operate container platforms (Docker, EKS/Kubernetes) and/or serverless (Lambda, Step Functions).

Infrastructure as Code & Configuration Management

• Codify infrastructure with Terraform or CloudFormation; enforce modules, tagging, and policy-as-code.
• Apply configuration management (Ansible/SSM), including patching and drift detection.

Observability & Reliability

• Define and measure SLOs/SLIs, set error budgets, and run blameless postmortems.
• Build observability with CloudWatch, Prometheus/Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and centralized logging.

Security & Compliance

• Implement least-privilege IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager, VPC security, WAF, and data protection.
• Integrate DevSecOps (SAST/DAST, dependency scanning, container image scanning) into pipelines.

Documentation & Knowledge Management

• Maintain concise, current documentation (runbooks, architecture diagrams, standards, onboarding guides).
• Drive cross-skilling and ensure no single points of failure in knowledge.

Operations & Support

• Participate in on‑call rotation (if applicable), incident response, and problem management.
• Champion Continuous Service Improvement (CSI) and defect elimination.

Team Deliverables

Delivering on his/her functional leadership practice, the candidate will help the DevOps team achieve the following benefits:

Speed

• Move at high velocity to innovate faster and adapt to changing markets.
• Mature in microservice creation, CI/CD approaches.
• Learn ownership of services and release updates quicker.

Rapid Delivery

• Increase release frequencies to improve code and product quality.
• Release bug fixes timely to respond to customer needs.
• Mature in CI/CD and microservices for rapid delivery.

Reliability

• Improve quality of updates in both application and infrastructure changes.
• Ensure service reliability and positive end-user experience.
• Mature in CI/CD and Monitoring & Logging practices.

Improved Collaboration

• Foster pride, ownership, and accountability for releases.
• Reduce inefficiencies and save time through shorter handovers.
• Mature in DevOps cultural model and facilitate collaboration.

Security

• Move quickly while retaining control and preserving security.
• Adopt Infrastructure as Code and Policy as Code for compliance.
• Design with security first before functionality.

Design

• Design and implement scalable, automated, and secure infrastructure.
• Align systems with long-term architectural strategy.
• Create technical design specifications.

Development

• Develop and build IT solutions to meet business requirements.
• Install, configure, and integrate solutions.
• Design reusable components, maintain scripts, and execute/document test plans.

Deployment

• Build automated deployments using configuration management technology.
• Deploy new modules, upgrades, and fixes to production.
• Document and transfer knowledge to production support.

Maintenance (Break/Fix)

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines.
• Collaborate with developers for scalability, reliability, and security.
• Perform routine maintenance and act as escalation point for production support.

Continuous Service Improvement

• Evaluate existing applications/platforms and recommend improvements.
• Continuously improve DevOps processes, tools, and systems.
• Maintain documentation and assist in user guides/training.

Documentation

• Maintain all documentation required to support DevOps functions.
• Assist in developing user guides and training documentation.
• Promote knowledge sharing and cross-skilling across teams.