Junior Platform Engineer

Responsibilities

• Manage and support cloud and on-premises infrastructure environments.
• Monitor infrastructure health, performance, and availability.
• Perform routine maintenance, upgrades, and patch management.
• Troubleshoot infrastructure issues and participate in incident resolution.
• Assist in deploying and managing cloud resources in Azure, AWS, or GCP.
• Help optimize cloud resource utilization and costs.
• Maintain platform documentation and operational procedures.
• Work closely with application teams to support platform requirements.
• Participate in technical discussions, troubleshooting sessions, and project implementations.
• Document solutions, procedures, and operational runbooks.
• Contribute to knowledge sharing within the team.

Skills Requirement

• Bachelors degree in Engineering/Information Technology/Computer science
• 2-3 years of experience in relevant field
• Strong hands-on experience with TypeScript (TS) / Node.js; exposure to Python is an added advantage.
• Comfortable working across multiple technologies, including Spring Boot / Java, Maven, .NET, Docker, Jib, Helm, GitLab CI
• Good knowledge of GitLab CI, including Pipelines, Runners, Caching & Artifacts
• Strong troubleshooting and debugging capabilities in CI/CD environments, including:
• Identifying flaky versus genuine failures
• Resolving runner and environment-related issues
• Good understanding of Git, including:
• Conflict resolution, Rebase and interactive rebase
• Commit hygiene, Merge Request (MR) workflows
• Branching strategies, Reflog, cherry-pick, revert recovery
• Git bisect, Force-push decision making, Monorepo Git practices (worktrees, sparse-checkout)

Good to Have

• Experience with on-call support and incident response.
• Prior exposure to Developer Platform Engineering.
• Experience in developing or supporting internal engineering tools and platforms.