Senior Platform Engineer

Business Unit

Data Strategy Group

Industry

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Overview

Houlihan Lokey, Inc.

(NYSE

HLI) is a leading global investment bank recognized for delivering independent strategic and financial advice to corporations, financial sponsors, and governments. With uniquely deep industry expertise, broad international reach, and a partnership approach rooted in trust, the firm provides innovative, integrated solutions across mergers and acquisitions, capital solutions, financial restructuring, and financial and valuation advisory. Our unmatched transaction volumes provide differentiated, data-driven perspectives that help our clients achieve their most critical goals. To learn more about Houlihan Lokey, please visit HL.com.

Scope

We're looking for a seasoned Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer to join our Platform Engineering in India. Based in Gurugram, you will design, build, and evolve our cloud-native platform that powers high-scale applications and AI infrastructure. You'll drive automation, reliability, cost-efficiency, and developer experience across our CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, Kubernetes platforms, observability, and security controls. This role blends hands-on technical leadership with people management.

Responsibilities

• Platform Ownership: Architect, implement, and operate a robust internal platform (Kubernetes-based) enabling self-service deployments, scalable workloads, and standardized guardrails.
• Infrastructure as Code: Build repeatable, versioned infrastructure using Terraform; maintain reusable modules, enforce policy-as-code (e.g., OPA).
• Cloud Engineering: Design secure and cost-aware cloud topologies (networking, IAM, compute, storage, serverless, managed DBs, and edge/CDN).
• CI/CD Enablement: Implement and optimize pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions) for build/test/deploy, artifact management, and promotion strategies (blue/green, canary).
• Containers & Orchestration: Operate Kubernetes clusters, manage Helm and GitOps workflows, service meshes (Istio), and workload autoscaling.
• Observability & Reliability: Establish end-to-end telemetry with OpenTelemetry; define SLOs/SLIs, error budgets, and incident response runbooks.
• Security by Design: Embed DevSecOps—secret management (e.g., Vault), image scanning (Trivy), dependency scanning (SCA), workload policies, and compliance baselines (SOC2/ISO27001).
• Cost & Performance: Monitor and optimize cloud usage (FinOps), capacity planning, performance profiling, and right-sizing.
• Developer Experience: Improve inner-loop productivity with golden paths, templates, and CLI tooling; champion platform usability and documentation.
• Mentorship & Collaboration: Coach engineers, partner with architecture, and product teams; lead technical initiatives and production readiness reviews.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
• 4+ years in DevOps/SRE/Platform Engineering, with proven experience owning production-grade platforms
• Strong hands-on expertise in at least one major cloud; multi-cloud experience is a plus
• Advanced skills in Terraform (modules, workspaces, state management), Ansible; solid scripting (Python, Bash)
• Strong Knowledge in Data Structures, Programming Language preferably Python, Golang, TypeScript
• Proficiency with Docker and Kubernetes internals (networking, scheduling, storage, RBAC, operators)
• Designing secure, scalable pipelines and release strategies; experience with feature flags and progressive delivery
• Instrumentation and tracing (OpenTelemetry), log/event pipelines, alerting hygiene, and on-call best practices
• Practical knowledge of cloud/Kubernetes security, secrets management, SBOMs, vulnerability remediation, and policy enforcement
• Solid grasp of cloud infrastructure fundamentals across networking, load balancing, service discovery; Linux systems expertise
• Strong communication skills and proven stakeholder management capabilities
• Proven leadership and mentoring skills

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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