INSCALE Hiring! Full Time Lead Platform Engineer in Federal Territory - Ricebowl

We are looking for a Lead Platform Engineer to help build, evolve, and operate our cloud-native platform.

About the Role

In this role, you will work hands-on with Kubernetes, automation, infrastructure-as-code, and modern DevOps practices to ensure cloud-based products and services remain resilient, scalable, secure, and operationally efficient. You will play a key role in advancing a multi-cloud environment, strengthening platform capabilities, and implementing robust observability and monitoring solutions to support reliable operations across diverse environments.

This opportunity is ideal for someone who enjoys building platform capabilities from the ground up, enhancing existing systems, and continuously exploring emerging technologies. If you are passionate about designing and operating modern cloud platforms and enjoy working with contemporary tools and architectures, this role offers significant scope to influence the future direction of the organization's infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and enhance cloud platforms using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to support scalable, reliable, and secure architectures.
• Maintain and optimize cloud platform environments to ensure performance, availability, and operational excellence.
• Develop and improve CI/CD pipelines, automation frameworks, and deployment processes to increase efficiency and reliability.
• Implement and manage monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability solutions to ensure system health, uptime, and performance.
• Embed security, compliance, and governance best practices into platform operations, processes, and ways of working.
• Foster collaboration, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement within the platform engineering team, contributing to a strong engineering culture and team capability development.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of hands-on experience designing cloud architectures and Cloud Native-solutions.
• Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field

Required Skills

• Strong Proficiency in Kubernetes and related tools such as Helm (and Operators).
• Experience with public cloud platforms, AWS and Akamai/Linode Cloud is a plus.
• Experience with IaC and tools like Terraform and Ansible.
• Able to build CI/CD pipelines for Kubernetes based workloads, as well as GitOps such as ArgoCD.
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as Prometheus and Grafana proficiency with Messaging Queues and Streaming would be a plus.