Platform Engineering Lead

About this role

Platform Engineering Lead – Building Zoop’s Next-Gen Infrastructure Location: Pune, India Experience: 7+ years Why this role exists Zoop is entering its scale-up phase — where speed alone is not enough. We are looking for a Platform Engineering Lead who has already helped companies move from fast growth to stable, secure, and cost-efficient scale, and can do the same for Zoop. This role sits at the intersection of engineering velocity, security, reliability, and cost discipline. You will help Zoop evolve from strong DevOps foundations into a mature platform-led organization. What success looks like - Engineering teams ship faster with confidence and guardrails - Cloud cost, security, and reliability are predictable, visible, and managed - CI/CD is trusted, enforced, and production-ready - Platform decisions reduce cognitive load instead of adding process Scope & Expectations - Hands-on leadership role (architecture + implementation); you will build, not just review - You will own the platform roadmap, not just infrastructure tickets - Force multiplier for product engineering teams, not a bottleneck Key Responsibilities Platform & Cloud Architecture: Own Zoop's platform and cloud architecture across GCP / AWS; design opinionated, reusable platform patterns; build and evolve an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) with self-service environments, golden paths, standardized templates and guardrails; lead Kubernetes and cloud-native adoption at scale; drive infrastructure automation using Terraform, Pulumi or similar IaC. CI/CD, Reliability & Dev Experience: establish strong CI/CD with quality gates and production readiness; drive testing, automation, and safer deployment; define and track golden signals, SLIs/SLOs, and incident response; reduce operational toil; make observability a first-class stack teams can adopt seamlessly. Security, Privacy & Compliance: build security-by-default into infrastructure and pipelines; lead implementation and continuous readiness for DPDP Act (India), ISO 27001:2022, SOC 2 Type II; implement zero-trust, least-privilege access, and data isolation. FinOps & Optimization: make cloud cost transparent and accountable; set up FinOps with budgets, alerts, optimization; balance build vs buy with ROI thinking. AI, Data & MLOps Foundations: enable secure and scalable ML/MLOps foundations; define guardrails for AI workloads and sensitive data handling. Leadership & Collaboration: align infra and product strategy; mentor engineers; drive long-term initiatives while keeping execution practical. What we're looking for 6-8+ years building and running production infrastructure; scaling platforms at high-growth or regulated companies; strong hands-on Kubernetes & cloud-native, Service Mesh & Policy Engines, GCP/AWS/Azure, Terraform/IaC; solid SDLC and CI/CD (Jenkins or Gitops); observability (Grafana, Prometheus, NewRelic); comfortable in Go, Python, or Node.js; practical ISO 27001 and SOC 2 delivery; strong data protection, privacy, access control. Mindset: bias for action, analytical, cost-aware, reliability-focused, collaborative, calm under pressure. Nice to have: fintech/identity/regulated domains; built internal developer platforms or shared infra tooling; open-source contributions. Why Zoop: real-world problems in identity, data, and regulation; shape infrastructure foundations for the next phase of growth; high ownership and visible impact.

Key Responsibilities

• Own Platform Roadmap
• Design Cloud Architecture
• Build Internal Developer Platform
• Lead Cloud-Native Adoption
• Drive Infrastructure Automation

Requirements

Must have

• 7+ years of experience