Platform Engineer- UIDAI, Bengaluru

Position: Platform Engineer

Education Qualification: B.E./Btech/B.Sc. in Computer Science, Information Technology

Experience: Minimum 6 Years

Location: Bangalore

Roles & Responsibilty:

• •The Platform Engineer will be responsible for designing, automating, and operating

• UIDAIs core application and infrastructure platform to ensure high availability, scalability, and reliability across multiple data centres.

• •This role focuses on Service Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles, observability,

• and infrastructure automation, ensuring that UIDAI systems consistently meet defined SLA/SLO targets.

• •The position requires in-depth technical expertise in container orchestration, service mesh, CI/CD, monitoring, and distributed system reliability, combined with strong ownership, operational discipline, and collaborative problem-solving skills.

• •The Platform Engineer will be responsible for designing, automating, and operating

• UIDAIs core application and infrastructure platform to ensure high availability, scalability, and reliability across multiple data centres.

• •This role focuses on Service Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles, observability,

• and infrastructure automation, ensuring that UIDAI systems consistently meet defined SLA/SLO targets.

• •The position requires in-depth technical expertise in container orchestration, service mesh, CI/CD, monitoring, and distributed system reliability, combined with strong ownership, operational discipline, and collaborative problem-solving skills.

• •Ensure isolation, policy enforcement, and resource quota management across namespaces and tenants.

• •Monitoring, Observability & Incident Management

• •Design and maintain the observability stack (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and Open Telemetry).

• •Define and monitor SLOs (availability, latency, and error budgets) for all critical services.

• •Develop automated alerting and runbooks aligned with UIDAIs reliability goals.

• •Lead Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and Post Incident Reviews (PIR) for continuous improvement.

• •Collaboration & Governance

• •Collaborate with Product Managers, Architects, and Developers to ensure reliability and performance objectives are integrated into design.

• •Standardise environments across development, staging, and production.

• •Participate in architectural reviews and propose platform improvements to enhance scalability, resilience, and efficiency.

Desirable:

•Certifications such as CKA/CKAD, Terraform Associate, AWS/GCP DevOps Engineer, or equivalent

•Recognized SRE/DevOps certifications (Google SRE, Linux Foundation, etc.)