GoLang AWS – Platform Engineer

Tata Consultancy Services is seeking a GoLang AWS – Platform Engineer to design, develop, and deploy API solutions using Golang and AWS services. The role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams, ensuring platform security, and maintaining system observability.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and deploy API solutions and policies using Golang and AWS-native services
• Implement and manage RESTful and SOAP web services, API proxies, and routing logic
• Configure and manage endpoint policies, traffic routing, and custom middleware filters
• Build and maintain integration workflows for B2B and application-to-application data exchange
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions
• Contribute to infrastructure automation and deployment pipelines using Terraform or AWS CDK
• Implement and optimize containerized workloads using Docker, ECS, and NGINX+
• Participate in designing cloud-native architectures that support ESB’s API and integration platform
• Ensure high availability, scalability, and fault tolerance of ESB services
• Drive continuous improvement in system observability, including logging, tracing, and metrics (ELK Stack, CloudWatch, Datadog)
• Contribute to capacity planning, performance tuning, and disaster recovery strategies
• Enforce API and platform security standards, implementing OAuth2, SSL/TLS, PKI, and secure token mechanisms
• Integrate OWASP best practices into all stages of development and deployment
• Collaborate with security teams to perform vulnerability assessments and remediation planning
• Maintain compliance with enterprise security and governance frameworks
• Monitor platform availability, performance, and reliability, proactively addressing issues
• Troubleshoot and resolve production incidents in collaboration with DevOps and SRE teams
• Manage environment configurations, patches, upgrades, and deployments
• Maintain comprehensive technical documentation for integrations, APIs, and infrastructure

Requirements:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, or DevOps roles
• Strong programming skills in Golang; secondary experience in Python or Java/J2EE preferred
• Hands-on expertise with AWS (API Gateway, Lambda, ECS, SQS, SNS, CloudWatch)
• Proficiency with Docker, NGINX+, and container orchestration concepts
• Strong understanding of Internet and API security principles (OAuth2, SSL/TLS, mTLS, PKI)
• Working knowledge of OWASP standards and secure coding practices
• Experience with Terraform or AWS CDK for infrastructure automation
• Familiarity with Linux/Unix systems, shell scripting, and general networking (DNS, routing)
• Experience integrating observability tools (ELK Stack, Datadog, Prometheus, etc.)
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or equivalent)
• Experience with API Gateway policy development, traffic management, and security enforcement
• Exposure to message-based and event-driven architectures (Kafka, JMS)
• Background in enterprise integration platforms (Axway, MuleSoft, IBM IIB, or similar)
• Familiarity with Oracle, MongoDB, or DocumentDB
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills with an automation-first mindset