Cloud Platform Engineer

Overview:    

TekWissen is a global workforce management provider that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients throughout India and world-wide. The below client is a global software and cloud solutions provider that helps organizations buy, manage, and optimize their technology through both a marketplace and a comprehensive suite of services

Job Title: Cloud Platform Engineer
Location: Bangalore
Job Type: Contract
Work Type: Onsite

Job Description:

• Specialist with 12+ years of experience delivering large-scale cloud infrastructure modernization, platform engineering, and migration programs across enterprise and telecom environments.
• Strong expertise in assessing application and infrastructure readiness, planning migration strategies, and executing workload transitions from virtualized platforms to Kubernetes/OpenShift environments running on bare metal and cloud infrastructure.

Core Expertise

• Cloud migration planning, readiness assessments, dependency analysis, and migration execution.
• Virtual machine to container platform migrations (VMware/OpenStack to Kubernetes/OpenShift).
• Kubernetes and OpenShift cluster validation, operations, troubleshooting, and lifecycle management.
• OpenStack administration, operations, and infrastructure management.
• Linux systems administration, automation, and shell scripting.
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible) and operational automation.
• Storage validation and persistence management (including Ceph-backed environments).
• CI/CD, GitOps, and DevOps practices.
• Monitoring, observability, and production health validation using enterprise monitoring platforms.
• Infrastructure troubleshooting, performance optimization, and operational support.
• Cross-functional collaboration with networking, storage, platform, and application teams during migration programs.

Technical Skills

• Container Platforms: Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker
• Cloud Platforms: OpenStack, Azure, AWS, Google Cloud
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Ansible
• Automation & Scripting: Bash, Python
• Monitoring & Logging: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, OpenSearch, Datadog
• CI/CD & DevOps: Jenkins, GitLab CI, ArgoCD, CircleCI, GitOps
• Configuration Management: Puppet, Chef
• Storage: Ceph, Persistent Volumes
• Operating Systems: Linux/Unix
• Version Control: Git
• Databases: Redis

Key Strengths

• Leading end-to-end cloud migration and modernization initiatives.
• Developing migration runbooks, validation procedures, rollback plans, and cutover strategies.
• Performing infrastructure health checks, dependency validation, and post-migration verification.
• Automating operational processes to improve repeatability and reduce manual effort.
• Troubleshooting complex cloud-native infrastructure across compute, networking, storage, and container platforms.
• Working in mission-critical enterprise and telecom environments with high availability requirements.
• Providing technical leadership, mentoring engineers, and collaborating with global delivery teams.

Relevant Certifications

• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
• Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS)
• Red Hat OpenStack Certification
• Microsoft Azure Administrator (AZ-104)
• Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)
• Additional certifications in Kubernetes, OpenStack, Nutanix, and IT Service Management.

Ideal Profile Keywords

• Cloud Migration | Kubernetes | OpenShift | OpenStack | Platform Engineering | Cloud Infrastructure | Infrastructure Modernization | Linux | Terraform | Ansible | DevOps | Automation | Ceph | Infrastructure Readiness | Migration Assessment | Cloud Operations | Production Support | Enterprise Infrastructure | Telecom Cloud | Bare Metal Kubernetes

TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.