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About McDonald’s: One of the world’s largest employers with locations in more than 100 countries, McDonald’s Corporation has corporate opportunities in Hyderabad. Our global offices serve as dynamic innovation and operations hubs, designed to expand McDonald's global talent base and in-house expertise. Our new office in Hyderabad will bring together knowledge across business, technology, analytics, and AI, accelerating our ability to deliver impactful solutions for the business and our customers across the globe. Position Summary: We’re seeking a hands-on Platform Engineer to support our enterprise data integration and enablement platform. As a Platform Engineer III, you’ll be responsible for designing, maintaining, and optimizing secure and scalable data movement services—such as batch processing, file transfers, and data orchestration. This role is essential to ensuring reliable data flow across systems to power analytics, reporting, and platform services in a cloud-native environment. Who we’re looking for: Primary Responsibilities: Hands-On Data Integration Engineering Build and maintain data transfer pipelines, file ingestion processes, and batch workflows for internal and external data sources. Configure and manage platform components that enable secure, auditable, and resilient data movement. Automate routine data processing tasks to improve reliability and reduce manual intervention. Platform Operations & Monitoring Monitor platform services for performance, availability, and failures; respond quickly to disruptions. Tune system parameters and job schedules to improve throughput and processing efficiency. Implement logging, metrics, and alerting to ensure end-to-end observability of data workflows. Security, Compliance & Support Apply secure protocols and encryption standards to data transfer processes (e.g., SFTP, HTTPS, GCS/AWS). Support compliance with internal controls and external regulations (e.g., GDPR, SOC2, PCI). Collaborate with security and infrastructure teams to manage access controls, service patches, and incident response. Troubleshooting & Documentation Investigate and resolve issues related to data processing failures, delays, or quality anomalies. Document system workflows, configurations, and troubleshooting runbooks for team use. Provide support for platform users and participate in on-call rotations as needed. Skill: 5+ years of hands-on experience in data integration , platform engineering , or infrastructure operations . Proficiency in: Designing and supporting batch and file-based data transfers Python scripting and SQL for diagnostics, data movement, and automation Terraform scripting and deploying of infrastructure cloud services Working with GCP (preferred) or AWS data analytics services, such as: GCP: Cloud Storage, BigQuery, Cloud Composer, Pub / Sub, Dataflow AWS: S3, Glue, Redshift, Athena, Lambda, EventBridge, Step Functions Cloud-native storage and compute optimization for data movement and processing Infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD practices (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, Cloud Build, GitHub Actions) Strong analytical and debugging skills for troubleshooting issues in distributed, high-volume environments. Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or a related technical field. Work location: Hyderabad, India Work pattern: Full time role. Work mode: Hybrid. Additional Information: McDonald’s is committed to providing qualified individuals with disabilities with reasonable accommodations to perform the essential functions of their jobs. McDonald’s provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to sex, sex stereotyping, pregnancy (including pregnancy, childbirth, and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding), race, color, religion, ancestry or national origin, age, disability status, medical condition, marital status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, protected military or veteran status, citizenship status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. McDonald’s Capability Center India Private Limited (“McDonald’s in India”) is a proud equal opportunity employer and is committed to hiring a diverse workforce and sustaining an inclusive culture. At McDonald’s in India, employment decisions are based on merit, job requirements, and business needs, and all qualified candidates are considered for employment. McDonald’s in India does not discriminate based on race, religion, color, age, gender, marital status, nationality, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, political affiliation, veteran status, disability status, medical history, parental status, genetic information, or any other basis protected under state or local laws. Nothing in this job posting or description should be construed as an offer or guarantee of employment. 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