Senior Platform Engineer - SaaSOps
About ValGenesis
ValGenesis is a leading digital validation platform provider for life sciences companies. ValGenesis suite of products are used by 30 of the top 50 global pharmaceutical and biotech companies to achieve digital transformation, total compliance and manufacturing excellence/intelligence across their product lifecycle.
Learn more about working for ValGenesis, the de facto standard for paperless validation in Life Sciences: https://www.valgenesis.com/about
About the Role:
-Long term responsibility of this role would be to manage day-to-day SaaS operations of the platforms/products, ensuring high-availability, security and performance of the infrastructure.
-Short term responsibility would be to closely work with the platform engineering/development team in implementing the enterprise-grade CI/CD pipelines for cloud-native SaaS products from the ground up, manage/automate infrastructure-as-code, for cloud-native technologies.
-Implement robust continuous integration practices, including code quality gates, static and dynamic security analysis, and container image scanning.
-Design and implement a fully integrated DevSecOps toolchain aligned with security-first principles.
-Integrate source control systems (GitHub or Azure DevOps) with build pipelines, artifact repositories (ACR), container scanning tools, and Infrastructure-as-Code workflows.
-Implement secure secrets management using Azure Key Vault in cloud environments and HashiCorp Vault for on-prem deployments.
-Enforce policy-as-code practices and implement compliance guardrails across environments.
-Enable Kubernetes-based deployments across OpenShift, Rancher, or upstream Kubernetes environments.
-Automate provisioning and configuration of core platform components including:
o AKS clusters
o Azure Front Door and Application Gateway
o PostgreSQL Flexible Servers (per-tenant model)
o Cosmos DB
o Private Endpoints and VNet architecture
-Support Hub-Spoke networking models and hybrid connectivity patterns.
-Enable vulnerability scanning and remediation workflows across code, containers, and infrastructure.
-Automate security posture management and compliance checks. Enforce RBAC and least-privilege access models across cloud and on-prem environment
Requirements:
We’re on a Mission
In 2005, we disrupted the life sciences industry by introducing the world’s first digital validation lifecycle management system. ValGenesis VLMS® revolutionized compliance-based corporate validation activities and has remained the industry standard.
Today, we continue to push the boundaries of innovation ― enhancing and expanding our portfolio beyond validation with an end-to-end digital transformation platform. We combine our purpose-built systems with world-class consulting services to help every facet of GxP meet evolving regulations and quality expectations.
The Team You’ll Join
Our customers’ success is our success. We keep the customer experience centered in our decisions, from product to marketing to sales to services to support. Life sciences companies exist to improve humanity’s quality of life, and we honor that mission.
We work together. We communicate openly, support each other without reservation, and never hesitate to wear multiple hats to get the job done.
We think big. Innovation is the heart of ValGenesis. That spirit drives product development as well as personal growth. We never stop aiming upward.
We’re in it to win it. We’re on a path to becoming the number one intelligent validation platform in the market, and we won’t settle for anything less than being a market leader.
How We Work
Our Chennai, Hyderabad and Bangalore offices are onsite, 5 days per week. We believe that in-person interaction and collaboration fosters creativity, and a sense of community, and is critical to our future success as a company.
ValGenesis is an equal-opportunity employer that makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. Our goal is to have the best-qualified people in every job. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or any other characteristics protected by local law.