Sr. Platform Engineering Architect

It’s not just about your career or job title… It’s about who you are and the impact you will make on the world. Because whether it’s for each other or our customers, we put People First. When our people come together, we Expand the Possible and continuously look for ways to improve what we create and how we do it. If you are constantly striving to grow, you’re in good company. We are revolutionizing the way the world moves for future generations, and we want someone who is ready to move with us.

Who are we?

Wabtec Corporation is a leading global provider of equipment, systems, digital solutions, and value-added services for freight and transit rail as well as the mining, marine, and industrial markets. Drawing on nearly four centuries of collective experience across Wabtec, GE Transportation, and Faiveley Transport, the company has grown to become One Wabtec, with unmatched digital expertise, technological innovation, and world-class manufacturing and services, enabling the digital-rail-and-transit ecosystems.

Wabtec is focused on performance that drives progress and unlocks our customers’ potential by delivering innovative and lasting transportation solutions that move and improve the world. We are lifelong learners obsessed with making things better to drive exceptional results. Wabtec has approximately 27K employees in facilities throughout the world. Visit our website to learn more!

WABTEC CORPORATION

Company Job Title:

Sr. Platform Engineering Architect

Location: Bengaluru, KA

Summary:

In this role, you will play a key leader in our Wabtec One Platform Engineering ecosystem by providing technical leadership and hands‑on expertise across Platform Engineering practices including DevOps principles, Kubernetes, Docker, SDLC, CI/CD, cloud platforms, microservice architecture, monitoring, and observability. You will help define and implement best practices that guide product teams, establishing patterns and standards that elevate our overall Platform Engineering maturity. Your contributions will directly influence the Platform Engineering strategy for Wabtec and accelerate the delivery of reliable, scalable, and secure solutions across the business.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provide architectural guidance and leadership to enhance tooling for continuous build, automated testing, and release management.
• Architect, design, and oversee implementation of Kubernetes‑based workloads at scale.
• Apply deep knowledge of cloud tooling and cloud‑native best practices (AWS preferred) to guide solution decisions.
• Design technology solutions that are platform‑agnostic, reusable, and scalable to enterprise‑wide adoption across multiple application teams.
• Communicate complex technical concepts effectively at scale and present architectural recommendations to diverse technical audiences.
• Make strategic technology decisions at the product and platform level and evaluate their enterprise‑wide impact.
• Analyze and optimize build processes and pipelines through architectural improvements.
• Champion automation initiatives to reduce operational toil and enhance engineering efficiency.
• Lead the implementation and governance of Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment principles.
• Provide architectural oversight in quality engineering, test planning, and testing methodology for software delivery.
• Apply expert knowledge of SDLC and agile methodologies to ensure consistent and predictable delivery outcomes.
• Develop and maintain enterprise documentation supporting build processes and environment configurations.
• Demonstrate knowledge of AI workflows and the architectural considerations required to support AI‑driven and agentic systems.

Supervisory Responsibilities

• Participate in hiring and recruitment efforts, including interviews for employees in the Wabtec One Platform Engineering department.
• Provide technical leadership on best practice implementation and ensuring consistency in DevOps methodology.

• Other duties as assigned

Minimum Qualifications: (To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.)

• Degree Requirements: Bachelor’s Degree
• Professional Technical Experience: 7+ Years
• Linux Experience: 6+ Years
• CI/CD Experience: 4+ Years
• Docker Experience: 5+ Years
• Kubernetes Experience: 5+ Years
• Python, Shell, or Bash Scripting Experience: 5+ Years

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Experience designing, creating, and maintaining automated build and configuration management tooling (Ansible, Helm, Kustomize, Terraform, or GitLab preferred).
• Deep expertise in the full container lifecycle—from Dockerfile best practices to Kubernetes execution models.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to deliver architectural guidance and educate internal teams on emerging technologies.
• Ability to propose strategic CI/CD improvements based on research, industry trends, and best‑practice synthesis.
• Demonstrates strong judgment in evaluating modern tools and integrating them into product teams based on business value.
• Understands TCO and value drivers associated with platform and tooling decisions, ensuring cost‑efficient architecture.
• Influences through collaboration and builds organizational alignment for new or evolving processes.
• Leverages institutional knowledge to prevent rework and drive consistent architectural outcomes.
• Continuously evaluates successes and failures to inform future architectural decisions and improve performance.
• Capable of mentoring and guiding others in critical thinking and architectural decision‑making.
• Demonstrates ongoing commitment to deepening technical expertise and adopting emerging technologies.
• Proactively engages with cross‑functional teams to resolve complex issues and design scalable, standards‑based solutions.
• Actively learns new methodologies and tools to anticipate and mitigate delivery challenges across product teams.

Physical Demands:

• Employee is regularly required to talk and hear
• Employee is regularly required to work on sedentary work that primarily involves sitting and typing for long periods of time
• Employee is regularly required to perform repeating motions that may include the wrists, hands and/or fingers.

Work Environment:

• The employee may be required to work in a temperature-controlled office environment, with frequent exposure to electronic office equipment.

Our Commitment to Embrace Diversity:

Wabtec is a global company that invests not just in our products, but also our people by embracing diversity and inclusion. We care about our relationships with our employees and take pride in celebrating the variety of experiences, expertise, and backgrounds that bring us together. At Wabtec, we aspire to create a place where we all belong and where diversity is welcomed and appreciated.   

To fulfill that commitment, we rely on a culture of leadership, diversity, and inclusion. We aim to employ the world’s brightest minds to help us create a limitless source of ideas and opportunities. We have created a space where everyone is given the opportunity to contribute based on their individual experiences and perspectives and recognize that these differences and diverse perspectives make us better.

We believe in hiring talented people of varied backgrounds, experiences, and styles… People like you! Wabtec Corporation is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or expression, or protected Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

What could you accomplish in a place that puts People First?

At Wabtec, it’s not just about a job - it’s about the impact you make. When our people come together, we’re Expanding the Possible by continuously improving what we do and how we do it - for our clients and each other.

If you’re ready to revolutionize how the world moves for future generations, Wabtec is the place for you.
 

Who are we?

Wabtec is a leading global provider of equipment, systems, digital solutions, and value-added services for the freight and transit rail sectors. Drawing on more than 150 years of experience, we are leading the way in safety, efficiency, reliability, innovation, and productivity. Whether it’s freight, transit, ports, logistics, mining, industrial, or marine, our expertise, technologies, and people together – are accelerating the future of transportation. With roots that date back to George Westinghouse, Thomas Edison, and Louis Faiveley, Wabtec has always built technologies and implemented solutions for a variety of sectors that are critical to meeting the needs of customers and governments alike.

Our global team of about 30,000 employees worldwide delivers performance that moves the world forward. We’re lifelong learners, obsessed with better. Learn more at www.WabtecCorp.com.

Culture powers us and the possibilities.

We believe the best ideas come from a mix of experiences and backgrounds. At Wabtec, we strive every day to create a place where everyone belongs. We’re building a culture where leadership, inclusion and your unique perspective fuel progress.

We’re proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We welcome talent of all backgrounds, experiences, and identities, including race, gender, age, disability, veteran status and more.

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