JOB TITLE: Associate Platform Engineer (SRE I) - India
JOB STATUS: Full-Time
DEPARTMENT: Platform Engineering
REPORTS TO: Vice President, IT, Information Security & Platform Engineering
SUMMARY
Amtech is scaling its Platform Engineering organization in India as our products move to a fully AWS-hosted, multi-tenant SaaS model. Our SRE practice keeps Encore, LabelTraxx, and supporting platforms reliable, observable, and secure across a multi-account AWS estate.
As an Associate Platform Engineer on the SRE track, you will learn reliability engineering by doing it: monitoring production services, executing runbooks, automating routine operations, and participating in incident response alongside senior engineers.
This is an early-career role designed for growth. You will pair with experienced SREs, receive structured mentorship, and build the foundation to progress through Amtech's engineering career ladder.
JOB DESCRIPTION
Monitoring & Reliability
- Operate and tune monitoring, logging, and alerting for production services using our OpenTelemetry-based observability stack (OpenObserve, CloudWatch).
- Track service-level indicators (SLIs) and objectives (SLOs); help maintain reliability dashboards and reports.
- Assist with root cause analysis after incidents, documenting findings and follow-up actions.
Automation & Operations
- Automate routine operational tasks with Python or Bash, and contribute to Terraform modules under review by senior engineers.
- Support containerized and serverless workloads on ECS Fargate, EKS, and Lambda.
- Support CI/CD workflows in GitHub Actions and assist with environment provisioning.
- Create and maintain runbooks and operational playbooks.
Incident Response
- Join the on-call rotation with senior backup, responding to PagerDuty alerts and executing documented recovery procedures.
- Propose improvements that reduce mean time to detection (MTTD) and mean time to recovery (MTTR).
Security & Compliance
- Apply IAM, secrets management, and least-privilege practices in production environments.
- Follow Amtech's SOC 2, ISO 27001, and internal security policies, and help maintain audit evidence for the systems you operate.
AI Competency
- Use AI-assisted engineering tools for scripting, documentation, and troubleshooting with review discipline: never apply unreviewed AI-generated changes to any environment.
- Verify AI output before use: cross-check against sources, test before running, and understand every line you accept.
- Follow Amtech's AI acceptable-use and data classification policy; know what data must never enter AI tools.
Collaboration & Learning
- Learn from senior SREs through paired work, design reviews, and post-incident reviews.
- Document lessons learned and contribute to internal knowledge bases.
QUALIFICATIONS
- 0-2 years of experience in SRE, DevOps, systems, or cloud engineering (internships and substantial personal or academic projects count).
- Demonstrated ability to script in Python or Bash and to reason methodically through technical problems.
- Foundational knowledge of AWS core services (EC2, S3, IAM, VPC) or equivalent cloud fundamentals.
- Familiarity with Linux administration and basic networking (DNS, HTTP, TCP/IP).
- Exposure to Git-based workflows (GitHub or similar).
- Strong analytical and troubleshooting instincts; eager to learn from production systems.
- Safe, effective use of AI assistants (coding copilots, chat tools), including a verification habit before accepting output.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent demonstrated skills.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner or Solutions Architect Associate.
- Exposure to Terraform, Docker, or Kubernetes.
- Understanding of SLO/SLI concepts and incident management workflows.
- Experience with monitoring tools (CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry-based stacks).
