Platform Director
Location
Bangalore
Experience
10–18 years
Required Skills
About the Role
Description :
About the Role :
We are seeking a Platform Director for our client, a Software Product company head quartered in London.
Platform Director leads the buildout and orchestration of enterprise-grade AI platform services, leveraging Kubernetes, cloud platform services, and modern identity frameworks.
This leadership role oversees mission-oriented platform pods and ensures secure, scalable, and reliable capabilities for internal and external products across cloud-first and hybrid environments.
Key Responsibilities :
- Oversee orchestration, deployment, and lifecycle management of platform services on Kubernetes.
- Define patterns for containerized workloads, service mesh, scaling, resilience, observability, and multitenant operations.
- Drive architecture and delivery of platform capabilities built on cloud platform services (e.g., Functions, API Management, Event Grid, Service Bus, Key Vault, Storage).
- Lead integration with modern identity solutions for secure external identity federation and cross-tenant collaboration.
- Manage delivery of mission-oriented pods (e.g., Retrieval-Augmented Generation as a Service, Agent as a Service, Chat Service).
- Ensure enterprise reliability, zero-downtime deployments, and continuous improvement.
- Lead managers, architects, and senior engineers, fostering a culture of accountability, technical excellence, and compliance.
Required Experience :
- Extensive experience managing platform engineering or delivery teams, including leadership of leaders.
- Strong expertise in Kubernetes orchestration, container platforms, and distributed systems.
- Deep understanding of cloud platform services and cloud-native enterprise architecture.
- Experience with identity management and federation.
- Proven ability to deliver large-scale, mission-critical, multitenant platforms with zero-downtime deployment practices.
- Experience launching and operating enterprise platforms across cloud-first and hybrid environments.
- Strong communication, leadership, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Experience with agent-based service architectures is preferred.
Ideal Candidate
A platform engineering leader who has built and operated multitenant Kubernetes platforms in production, with hands-on expertise in cloud-native architectures and proven ability to scale teams across multiple technical pods.
Estimated Salary Range(medium confidence)
₹30 L – ₹55 L per year
Likely Interview Questions
- 1.Walk us through a multitenant Kubernetes platform you've architected—how did you handle tenant isolation, resource quotas, and billing/metering across pods?
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