Platform (PaaS/CaaS) Infrastructure Lead

Manage and operate platform services in a tenant environment above hypervisor level. Ensure reliability, security, and operability of container platforms and COTS components (MongoDB, Nginx, MQTT, IBM MQ, ArcGIS, etc.). Key Responsibilities:

• Lead platform operations team for container platforms and COTS services

• Manage incidents, changes, RCA, and platform lifecycle

• Install, configure, and troubleshoot COTS components

• Work with application and Authority Furnised Equipment (AFE) teams for integration and issue resolution

• Maintain SOPs, runbooks, and architecture documentation

• Ensure monitoring, logging, and observability

• Support patching, upgrades, and lifecycle management

• Ensure OS hardening compliance (golden image)

• Drive capacity planning and performance tuning

• Lead DR/BCP activities

• Leading a team of 4–6 infrastructure engineers

Qualifications

• 7–10 years infrastructure/platform experience

• Strong Kubernetes / container platform experience

• Experience with Docker / Podman

• Experience installing and managing MongoDB, MSSQL, Nginx, Apache

• Experience with messaging systems (IBM MQ, MQTT, Kafka equivalent)

• Understanding of network, firewall, load balancer (for troubleshooting)

• Linux administration and OS hardening

• Monitoring tools (EG Monitoring, Grafana, Prometheus, ELK)

• Experience in government / regulated environments preferred

Preferred Skills

• Experience with CI/CD integration

• Automation (Ansible, scripting)

• Integration patterns (REST, messaging)

• Security compliance familiarity

• Platform (PaaS/CaaS), containers, COTS, OS hardening