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