Job Description

Platform Engineer


Platform Engineer is responsible to create, manage and maintain a set of frameworks, process and automated workflows to allow IT to ship code from development to production in an efficient and reliable manner. Platform Engineer is responsible enabling fast delivery in the cloud.




1. Platform Engineer must have come from development background and have an extensive experience (atleast 5+ years) on cloud (Azure is preferred) setup to leverage IaC using tools like terraform, ARM Templates, Helm or Node etc and other DevOps techniques to reduce the toil of software development and delivery to allow quicker delivery from development into production




2. Platorm Engineer must show good understanding of both application software engineering and system Engineering. Good contextual understanding of technologies like Java, JavaScript, NodeJS, Python, Powershell, YAML, Typescript, Docker etc.




3. Extensive commercial experience on container technologies & orchestration using Docker, Kubernetes, Azure - Kubernetes AKS and kubernetes tools like kubectl. Good understanding of Azure DevOps and Github or Gitlab, Jenkins, DevOps implementation, Depoyment strategies and experience in implementation and optimizing these deployment strategies to support business delivery to improve customer experience.




4. Automation, Configuration Management using tools like Azure DevOps, Ansible, YAML and scripting using tools like PowerShell, AZ Cli, Python, Bash etc.




5. Extensive experience on Monitoring, Logging and implementing full observability solutions using Azure Monitor, Azure log analytics, Azure App Insights etc.




6. Expert level cloud infrastructure systems experience in designing and deploying, migration of large enterprise application estate utilizing almost all Azure stack - Azure Application Gateway, AKS, Azure Functions, Storage Accounts, EventHub, Azure Data Factory, Azure B2C, AD, Azure DevOps, including server, storage, network and applications - Azure, including hybrid, Software as Service (SaaS), Platform as Service (PaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS);




7. Good experience on cloud network environments implementation & setup including connectivity, network, firewalls by following standard Azure enterprise landing zone, networking policies like zero trust networking etc.and must show good understanding on hybrid cloud setup and network security elements like - TLS, HTTPS, mTLS




8. Automated various Infrascture and application development activities using continuous deployment, Application deployment automation and hybrid cloud setup & integration.

About Virtusa

Teamwork, quality of life, professional and personal development: values that Virtusa is proud to embody. When you join us, you join a team of 27,000 people globally that cares about your growth -- one that seeks to provide you with exciting projects, opportunities and work with state of the art technologies throughout your career with us.



Great minds, great potential: it all comes together at Virtusa. We value collaboration and the team environment of our company, and seek to provide great minds with a dynamic place to nurture new ideas and foster excellence.



Virtusa was founded on principles of equal opportunity for all, and so does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.