About this Senior Platform Engineer role at Synechron
Job Title: Senior Platform Engineer – Cloud Foundations
Work Location: Bengaluru at Client Office
Client Location: Manyata Tech Park, Bangalore
Roles & Responsibilities
- Ensure the platform is operating 24/7 and respond to incidents as required.
- Design and build enterprise platform capabilities, including tooling, CI/CD, security, and observability solutions.
- Coach and mentor engineers to improve engineering quality, best practices, and delivery velocity.
- Share engineering knowledge through presentations, blogs, videos, and community engagement activities.
- Collaborate with Product Owners and engineering teams to define and execute platform roadmaps.
- Drive continuous platform improvements, reliability, scalability, and operational excellence.
Required Skills
- Strong system design and architecture knowledge.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Growth mindset with a focus on continuous improvement and innovation.
- Hands-on experience with AWS services, including: AWS Lambda Step Functions ECS/EKS EC2 ALB/ELB S3 Transit Gateway (TGW) NAT Gateway VPC and VPC/Gateway Endpoints IAM CloudWatch (Logs, Metrics, Alarms) EBS DynamoDB
- Strong proficiency in scripting/programming languages such as: Python (mandatory) Go Rust
- Strong experience with version control and CI/CD tools: GitHub GitHub Actions Artifactory ArgoCD
- Strong hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Terraform (mandatory) AWS CloudFormation AWS CDK
- Solid understanding of: Docker Kubernetes
- Experience with logging, monitoring, and observability tools such as: Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, Observe (or equivalent tools)
- Hands-on experience in API development and integrations.
- Experience working with AWS API Gateway.
- Exposure to Temporal is preferred but not mandatory.
SYNECHRON’S DIVERSITY & INCLUSION STATEMENT
Diversity & Inclusion are fundamental to our culture, and Synechron is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiative ‘Same Difference’ is committed to fostering an inclusive culture – promoting equality, diversity and an environment that is respectful to all. We strongly believe that a diverse workforce helps build stronger, successful businesses as a global company. We encourage applicants from across diverse backgrounds, race, ethnicities, religion, age, marital status, gender, sexual orientations, or disabilities to apply. We empower our global workforce by offering flexible workplace arrangements, mentoring, internal mobility, learning and development programs, and more.
All employment decisions at Synechron are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to the applicant’s gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
