Senior Platform Engineer

Role overview

Senior Platform Engineer at IG Infotech India

We didn't pivot to innovation; it's how we've always operated.

So, who are we?

IG Group is a FTSE 100 fintech operating across five continents, serving over 1.4m customers and handling billions of dollars in transactions – built on scale, trust, and proof.

What that means for the people who work here is real: genuinely complex problems to solve, the technology and resources to tackle them properly, and the kind of scope that's rare in established businesses.

The bar is high – bring a curious and forward-thinking mindset and we'll give you the platform to define what comes next.

Join us at IG – the future gets built here.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable, secure AWS infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), and contribute to cloud technology evaluation and standardisation.
• Build and maintain configuration management using open-source Puppet (roles, profiles and modules with Hiera), developing reusable modules with unit testing, linting, versioning and controlled promotion across environments.
• Use Ansible for orchestration and automation tasks where it is the better fit.
• Design, build and optimise GitLab CI/CD pipelines that test, validate and deploy infrastructure and configuration changes, embedding DevOps and DevSecOps practices such as secrets management and vulnerability scanning.
• Manage and automate AWS EC2 and Linux estates with AWS Systems Manager (State Manager, Run Command, Patch Manager, Parameter Store and automation documents), including instance configuration, hardening and lifecycle management.
• Manage the certificate lifecycle across platform services, including issuance, renewal, rotation and expiry monitoring, and automate these processes to reduce outages and manual effort.
• Build and run Kubernetes environments (EKS) and deliver self-service capabilities to development teams through platform tooling and an internal developer platform (for example Backstage).
• Lead infrastructure modernisation, including OS migrations, tooling upgrades and reducing configuration drift across environments.
• Manage the software and dependency lifecycle, including security patching, vulnerability management, open-source component updates and RPM package management, with a clear inventory of platform dependencies.
• Maintain organised, versioned and accessible artefacts and packages through repository tooling such as JFrog Artifactory.
• Define and apply monitoring, alerting and observability standards (for example Honeycomb, Prometheus and Grafana) so issues are found and understood before they affect users.
• Act as subject-matter expert in diagnosing and resolving complex infrastructure and configuration incidents, running root cause analysis and putting preventive measures in place.
• Partner with Platform Managers and development teams to understand their needs and deliver solutions that work, helping to bridge development and operations.
• Mentor junior engineers and write and maintain clear documentation to support continuous learning and engineering best practice.
• What you'll need for this role
• Key Qualification

Employment details

• Experience level: 6+ years in infrastructure engineering, configuration management and automation, including significant hands-on experience with Linux systems and AWS cloud.
• Core technical requirements
• Configuration management: Strong hands-on expertise with open-source Puppet, including writing, testing and maintaining modules using roles, profiles and Hiera.
• Experience with module testing and release workflows (for example rspec-puppet and puppet-lint) is essential.
• Working experience with Ansible (playbooks, roles and inventory management) is also required.
• Certificate management and rotation: Hands-on experience managing the certificate lifecycle, including issuance, renewal, rotation and expiry monitoring, using internal or public certificate authorities and tooling such as AWS Certificate Manager.
• Ability to automate rotation safely across Linux, load balancer and Kubernetes environments.
• AWS cloud: Solid hands-on experience designing and operating AWS platforms, especially EC2, with a good understanding of IAM, S3, VPC and networking (for example Transit Gateway and Direct Connect).
• AWS Systems Manager: Practical experience using SSM for configuration and state management (State Manager, Run Command, Patch Manager, Parameter Store and automation documents).
• Infrastructure as Code: Hands-on experience with Terraform.
• Terragrunt or equivalent tooling is a plus.
• CI/CD and DevSecOps: Experience designing multi-stage CI/CD pipelines, ideally in GitLab (or Jenkins or GitHub Actions), with good knowledge of security practice such as secrets management, vulnerability scanning and compliance.
• Linux administration: Strong experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9, Rocky Linux 9 or equivalent, including systemd, SELinux and security hardening.
• Scripting: Strong Python and Bash skills for automation.
• Go is a plus.
• Packaging and artefacts: RPM package management and building, with experience administering RPM repositories and artefact repositories such as Artifactory or Nexus.
• Containers and Kubernetes: Working experience administering Kubernetes (EKS preferred), including networking, RBAC, pod security and Docker image management.
• Service mesh (Istio) is a plus.
• Observability and reliability: Hands-on experience with monitoring and observability tools (Honeycomb, Prometheus and Grafana) and defining alerting standards.
• Networking and architecture: Strong network fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing, traffic management and troubleshooting) and a good grasp of microservices and cloud architecture patterns.
• Software lifecycle and security: Experience managing security patching, vulnerability management and dependency hygiene.
• Familiarity with compliance frameworks such as PCI DSS is advantageous.
• Version control and collaboration: Proficient with Git (GitLab, GitHub and Bitbucket), able to work autonomously and contribute to engineering standards across teams.
• The Perks
• It really is more than a job.
• We think like a start-up, but we deliver like a FTSE 100 — so the bar is high, and we won't pretend otherwise.
• We work hybrid, which means three days in the office.
• We’ll recognise your talent and make sure that you can still have a life – at work, and outside of it.
• Networks, committees, awards, sports and social clubs, mentorships, volunteering opportunities, extra time off… the list goes on.
• Performance-related bonus
• Life insurance
• Medical insurance for you and your family
• Provident fund contributions from day one
• Employee assistance programme
• Contribution to gym memberships
• Lunch & snacks on us
• 15 days annual leave increasing to 20 days after 2 years’ continuous service
• A day off to celebrate your birthday as well as two days’ volunteering leave per year.
• Join us for this exciting journey.
• Apply now!
• Number of openings
• 1
• Location: Bangalore [India]

About the employer

• This role is part of our Platform Engineering team who are responsible for building the cloud and containers platform landscape to support the business applications via self-service capabilities and automation.
• Your role in the Team's Success
• As a Senior Platform Engineer, you’ll be a hands-on technical expert who builds, improves and operates platform infrastructure that is secure, scalable, reliable and cost-effective, across our on-premises and AWS estates.
• You’ll bring engineering, security and FinOps best practice into platform design and delivery.
• You’ll contribute to complex technical decisions, reduce platform risk, and help engineering teams deliver with confidence and speed.
• You’ll also mentor more junior engineers and promote knowledge sharing across the team.

Additional role details

• Job Title
• Senior Platform Engineer