Senior Platform Engineer

Backbase
Hyderabad, India

Who this role is best for

Strong fit for infrastructure-focused engineers who design and automate SDLC processes, with expertise in Azure and agentic AI integration.

Best fit for

  • Infrastructure-focused engineers with 5–7+ years of experience in DevOps or similar roles
    — “You have 5–7+ years of experience in similar infrastructure or DevOps roles.”
  • Candidates who can bridge development needs with infrastructure best practices and optimize delivery
    — “You act as the bridge between development needs and cost-effective infrastructure best practices”
  • Individuals with advanced CI/CD tooling expertise and a track record of implementing IaaC solutions
    — “Lead Azure provisioning in IaaC mode and govern both local and cloud environments.”

Things to consider

  • The role requires a balance between delivery speed and long-term maintainability of infrastructure
    — “You balance delivery speed with long-term maintainability, ensuring all infrastructure is production-ready, secure, and scalable.”
  • Candidates should be prepared for cross-team collaboration and centralized solution development
    — “Identify recurring manual tasks across different teams and build centralized solutions to solve them once for the entire organization.”

How to stand out

  • Highlight your experience with multi-stage automation workflows and AI tool integration
    — “Build complex, multi-stage workflows and automate SDLC steps using AI tools.”
  • Showcase skills in designing observability frameworks for infrastructure and application performance
    — “Design and implement comprehensive frameworks that provide actionable insights into infrastructure health and application performance.”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · HighDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • Built complex workflows and automated SDLC steps
  • Led Azure provisioning in IaaC mode
  • Designed comprehensive observability frameworks
Typical background
5-7+ years of experience in similar infrastructure or DevOps roles

Skills & requirements

Required

AutomationInfrastructure As CodeObservabilityCI/CDAzure Provisioning

Preferred

Agentic AI Integration

Stack & domain

Ci/cd ToolingAzure ProvisioningIaacObservabilityAgentic AISDLC Technical ImprovementsAutomationInfrastructure As CodeCloud EnvironmentsFull-stack TechnologiesProblem SolvingDelivery SpeedLong-term MaintainabilityProduction ReadinessSecurityScalabilityDevOpsInfrastructureCloud

About the role

Original posting from Backbase via Greenhouse

The Platform Engineer is an infrastructure specialist focused on providing shared foundations across teams within a Value Stream. You design and deliver organization-wide SDLC technical improvements and reduce toil through automation. You act as the bridge between development needs and cost-effective infrastructure best practices

● Automation & Toil Reduction: Build complex, multi-stage workflows and automate SDLC steps using AI tools.

● Infrastructure as Code (IaaC): Lead Azure provisioning in IaaC mode and govern both local and cloud environments.

● Observability: Design and implement comprehensive frameworks that provide actionable insights into infrastructure health and application performance.

● AI Integration: Proactively explore and integrate agentic AI into engineering workflows to optimize delivery.

● Centralized Solutions: Identify recurring manual tasks across different teams and build centralized solutions to solve them once for the entire organization.

● You have 5–7+ years of experience in similar infrastructure or DevOps roles.

● You possess advanced expertise in CI/CD tooling and the organization's core full-stack technologies.

● You are a systematic problem solver capable of resolving issues that span multiple layers of technology.

● You balance delivery speed with long-term maintainability, ensuring all infrastructure is production-ready, secure, and scalable.

Source: Backbase careers (Greenhouse)

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