Senior Platform Engineer (Bangalore Rural)

Description: We are looking for a hands-on Senior Platform Engineer to build and operationalise a large- scale, on-premises IoT data platform from a completed architecture design into a running production system. The platform handles ~30,000 simultaneous IoT device connections, processes millions of real-time events per day, and integrates with enterprise downstream systems under strict latency SLOs. This is an implementation and operations role, not an advisory or architecture role. Requirements: Required Skills and Experience Kubernetes & Container Orchestration 3+ years of production Kubernetes experience; bare-metal / on-premises experience is mandatory cloud-managed Kubernetes experience alone does not qualify Hands-on Helm chart authoring (not just consumption), ArgoCD or equivalent GitOps tooling, and cert-manager Deep understanding of Kubernetes control plane HA: etcd Raft quorum, leader election, minimum viable node counts Experience with MetalLB and Traefik or equivalent bare-metal ingress and load- balancing tools Messaging & Streaming Production hands-on experience with Apache Kafka: topic configuration, partition sizing, replication factor, consumer group management, KRaft mode Solid understanding of consumer lag monitoring and back-pressure patterns under burst load Solid familiarity with MQTT protocol semantics: persistent sessions, QoS levels, TLS mutual authentication; hands-on experience with EMQX or a comparable broker at tens-of-thousands of concurrent connections Data Infrastructure Production hands-on experience with PostgreSQL HA: Patroni-based automatic failover, PgBouncer connection pooling, streaming replication, PITR with pgBackRest or equivalent Working knowledge of Valkey / Redis: cluster mode, TTL-based caching, atomic counter operations Observability Hands-on deployment and configuration of VictoriaMetrics / Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, and Alertmanager Ability to write PromQL / MetricsQL queries and .