Project Role : Custom Software Engineer
Project Role Description : Develop custom software solutions to design, code, and enhance components across systems or applications. Use modern frameworks and agile practices to deliver scalable, high-performing solutions tailored to specific business needs.
Must have skills : AWS Containerization
Good to have skills : NA
Minimum 5 year(s) of experience is required
Educational Qualification : 15 years full time education

Summary:
As an IT Container Platform Systems Engineer (m/f/d) within Global Data Center & Cloud Operations, you design, operate, and continuously improve mission-critical container orchestration platforms across hybrid multi-cloud environments. You contribute to global platform architecture, ensure standardization and resilience, and support 24 7 enterprise operations in a globally distributed organization.

Roles & Responsibilities:
- Design, operate, and optimize enterprise container platforms such as Red Hat OpenShift, AWS EKS, and AWS ECS.
- Architect and standardize Kubernetes-based platform services across on-prem and cloud environments.
- Implement and manage Crossplane for cloud resource orchestration.
- Build and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code with Terraform, Ansible, and Git-based workflows.
- Develop automation scripts to improve operational efficiency.
- Implement GitOps workflows using ArgoCD or Flux.
- Lead complex incident escalations, root-cause analysis, and long-term remediation.
- Collaborate with global network, security, cloud, and application teams to deliver end-to-end infrastructure solutions.
- Maintain architecture documentation, operational standards, and runbooks.
- Participate in on-call and shift rotations.

Professional & Technical Skills:
- 3+ years in enterprise or cloud-native platform operations.
- Expertise in Red Hat OpenShift, Kubernetes, and AWS EKS/ECS.
- Experience with Crossplane, Terraform, Helm, and GitOps tooling.
- Strong scripting and automation capabilities.
- Knowledge of high availability, disaster recovery, and resilience engineering.
- Experience with monitoring stacks and CI/CD pipelines.
- Hands-on experience with Ansible for automated configuration and deployment.
- Experience with GitLab CI/CD and IaC methodologies.
- Ability to work effectively in globally distributed teams with strong communication skills.
- Fluent English communication skills.

Additional Information:
- The candidate should have minimum 5 years of experience in AWS containerization.
- This position is based at our Chennai office.
- A 15 years full time education is required.

15 years full time education

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