Platform Engineer

We are looking for a highly skilled Platform Engineer to design, build, automate, and manage scalable, secure, and reliable platform capabilities across Harness and Ansible
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The role will focus on delivering these capabilities as centralized enterprise services
, enabling engineering teams to adopt standardized CI/CD and automation practices  will work across cloud platforms, infrastructure automation, Dev Ops, platform reliability, security, and developer experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Engineer and deliver centralized platform capabilities across Harness and Ansible.
• Design, implement, and operate scalable and highly available CI/CD and automation platforms.
• Establish and maintain standardized, reusable patterns for pipelines, templates, automation, and infrastructure configuration.
• Enable engineering teams to consume Harness and Ansible as shared enterprise services
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• Drive automation, self-service, reliability, security, and operational excellence across the platform.
• Partner with development and engineering teams to understand requirements and continuously improve the platform experience.
• Define and maintain platform standards, documentation, governance, and best practices.
• Integrate security and compliance controls into platform capabilities and delivery workflows.

Your Profile

Advanced Harness Administration

• Deep hands-on experience designing, implementing, administering, and maintaining Harness CI/CD at enterprise scale
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• Strong experience with Harness Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD).
• Proven experience implementing Pipeline-as-Code and managing reusable pipeline templates.
• Experience establishing governance, standards, and best practices for centralized Harness environments.
• Strong expertise developing robust, reusable Ansible Playbooks, Roles, and Collections
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• Extensive experience with Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) and Ansible Core in enterprise environments.
• Hands-on experience with inventory management, execution environments, job templates, automation workflows, and RBAC.
• Experience designing and operating centralized Ansible environments consumed by multiple engineering teams.

Shared Platform / Service Management

• Proven experience delivering, scaling, and maintaining CI/CD and automation platforms as centralized services
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• Experience supporting large-scale engineering environments, ideally serving 1,000+ developers
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• Strong understanding of platform reliability, availability, scalability, operational support, and service ownership.
• Experience treating internal platforms and tooling as products
  , with a strong focus on developer experience.
• Ability to gather requirements from engineering teams and translate them into scalable platform capabilities.
• Strong documentation skills, including user guides, onboarding materials, standards, and operational documentation.
• Customer-focused approach with an emphasis on self-service and ease of adoption.

Containerization & Orchestration

• Solid hands-on understanding of Docker and Kubernetes
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• Experience deploying, scaling, and managing containerized Ansible execution environments.
• Understanding of Kubernetes-based platform architectures and operational practices.

Security & Compliance

• Experience embedding security and compliance guardrails into centralized CI/CD pipelines and automation platforms.
• Hands-on experience with Hashi Corp Vault or similar secrets-management solutions.
• Strong understanding of RBAC, identity and access management, secrets management, and secure automation.
• Experience implementing automated security, compliance, and policy scanning within delivery pipelines.
• Strong experience using REST APIs and automation to extend and integrate Harness and Ansible capabilities.
• Experience integrating CI/CD and automation platforms with enterprise tools such as:
• Jira
• Service Now
• Monitoring and observability platforms
• ITSM and enterprise governance tools
• Ability to design reliable, maintainable integrations that enable end-to-end automation.