Lead Platform Engineer
SmarshBengaluru, Karnataka, India
Posted November 20, 2025
Full Time
About the Company
Smarsh empowers its customers to manage risk and unleash intelligence in their digital communications. Our growing community of over 6500 organizations in regulated industries counts on Smarsh every day to help them spot compliance, legal or reputational risks in 80+ communication channels before those risks become regulatory fines or headlines.
Job Description
Smarsh is seeking an experienced Lead Platform Engineer to define and lead our organization’s CI/CD, platform automation, and infrastructure strategies. The ideal candidate will have 7+ years of experience in DevOps, site reliability engineering, and will be proficient in scripting, automation, and cloud infrastructure automation.
Requirements
- Define and execute DevOps and platform automation strategies
- Mentor, coach, and inspire senior and junior DevOps engineers
- Partner with engineering, security, and platform teams to architect reliable and scalable cloud environments
- Architect and oversee enterprise-grade CI/CD pipelines
- Improve build, test, and deployment automation processes
- Standardize pipelines with reusable templates, code quality checks, and automated rollback mechanisms
- Lead design and implementation of infrastructure automation
- Manage container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes
- Automate environment provisioning, configuration management, and secret management
- Own and refine SDLC workflows
- Implement comprehensive monitoring, alerting, and observability for CI/CD pipelines and platform health
- Enforce security, RBAC policies, and compliance standards throughout the SDLC
- Integrate security testing, vulnerability management, and code analysis within pipelines
- Lead cross-team collaboration on platform improvements, automation standards, and best practices
- Document architecture decisions, operational runbooks, and pipeline configurations