Job Title: Principal Platform Engineer
Group: Platform Engineering
Location: India, Hybrid
About Quvia:
Quvia is the first AI-powered quality of experience (QoE) management platform for things that move, like ships and planes, transforming connectivity and digital experiences even in the most remote and hard-to-reach places.
The Quvia platform uses AI and machine learning to seamlessly blend any combination of connectivity, regardless of provider, orbit or network, into one, vendor-neutral environment. It then delivers comprehensive, end-to-end analytics and dynamic network orchestration that optimises for the best possible QoE for applications and end-users.
Quvia works with world-leading, Fortune 500 companies in aviation, cruise, shipping & energy.
Why Quvia?
- Founded in 2019, we are a fast-growing, Series A tech startup passionate about making connectivity experiences better for everyone.
- Our industry-first solutions are already addressing major challenges for companies in the travel and transportation industries–and we’re just getting started.
- As an early-stage company’s new hires will have the opportunity to make a significant impact on our growth trajectory.
- We are headquartered in the greater Miami region, with remote teams spanning the U.S., Europe and India.
- Quvia is backed by Columbia Capital, a respected venture capital firm founded in 1989 that has raised over $5 Bn of fund commitments.
About the Role
Quvia is seeking a Principal Platform Engineer Member to work with the platform engineering team on Kubernetes deployment architecture with various quvia products and its kubernetes migration. This position is hands-on, and it requires technical ‘doer’ expertise. The position requires attention to detail for analysis of product requirements and customer needs to verify product quality and customer experience. Working on this technology you will have the opportunity to have a major impact on the implementation and quality of Quvia’s next generation products. Our environment cultivates innovation and rapid product iteration within a creative solution space.
We need a dedicated, organized, and self-starter professional who thrives on being integral to a fast-paced startup environment. We need your skills as an excellent communicator who can set appropriate expectations, keep everyone apprised of progress and action items, manage cloud architecture and implementation, create automation scripts, evaluate test results, balance workloads, and ensure we meet our commitments. You also excel at dealing with the complexities associated with large enterprise customers.
Key Responsibilities
1. Strategic Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) Architecture
- Lead the Terraform Evolution: Architect and maintain a highly scalable, multi-account AWS environment utilizing Terraform (or OpenTofu) and Terragrunt.
- Standardize "Golden Paths": Develop and manage version-controlled, reusable Terraform modules to abstract complex AWS services (ECS, RDS, Networking) into streamlined, self-service provisioning templates.
- Agentic Infrastructure: Strategically position the platform for future trends by integrating AI Agents to facilitate infrastructure provisioning and automated auto-remediation processes.
2. Governance and Security-by-Design
- Shift-Left Security Ownership: Take ownership of integrating Checkov and OPA (Open Policy Agent) within our CI/CD pipelines to rigorously enforce security and compliance standards prior to resource creation.
- FinOps Governance: Implement preventative cost control mechanisms, leveraging tools such as Infracost, to ensure all infrastructure modifications adhere strictly to defined unit-economic targets.
3. Engineering Excellence and Technical Leadership
- Cross-Hub Mentorship: Serve as the definitive technical authority and mentor for senior engineers across both the Chennai and Bangalore development centers.
- Platform-as-a-Product Strategy: Collaborate closely with product teams to conceptualize and manage the platform as a tool dedicated to optimizing "Developer Experience" (DX), thereby minimizing cognitive load for application developers.
- Incident Commander: Direct the Root Cause Analysis (RCA) process for all critical infrastructure failures and design comprehensive, systemic solutions to proactively mitigate future recurrence.
4. Observability, Monitoring & Troubleshooting
- Set up network monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana and ELK stack.
- Troubleshoot DNS, latency, and packet loss issues.
- Perform deep packet inspection (DPI) using eBPF and Kubernetes observability tools.
- Optimize IP addressing, CIDR allocation, and subnetting for large-scale deployments.
What You'll Need
- Bachelor/Master's degree in computer science or related field or equivalent professional experience
- 8+ years of experience with AWS, Azure, and/or GCP clouds
- 3+ years of experience with Terraform and/or Terragrunt
- 3+ years of experience running production-grade workloads on managed Kubernetes services such as ECS or EKS at scale.
- Proficiency in Go (for writing custom Terraform providers) or Python (for sophisticated automation scripts).
- Mastery of GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Spacelift with a focus on GitOps workflows (ArgoCD)
- Hands-on experience with Ansible or Helm for infrastructure automation
- Experience with on-premises hypervisors such as ESXi and Proxmox
- Strong troubleshooting skills for DNS, latency, and connectivity issues.
What We’ll Offer
- Collaborative and innovative work environment
- Aviation, Maritime domain exposure, and business knowledge
- Connectivity and Mobile networking and business knowledge
- Opportunity to work in cross-functional teams.
- Enterprise Product end-to-end experience with direct customer feedback.
- Performance-based bonus.
- Opportunity to work across teams and organisations.
Quvia is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment opportunities at Quvia are based upon one's qualifications and capabilities to perform the essential functions of a particular job. All employment opportunities are provided without regard to race, religion, sex (including sexual orientation and transgender status), pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Quvia will never ask to interview job applicants via text message or ask for personal banking information as part of the interview process. Quvia will never ask job applicants or new hires to send money or deposit checks for the company.
