Digital India Corporation is inviting applications for the position of Platform & Security Engineer on a contractual basis.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate the hosting-agnostic environment on private/sovereign / government cloud: compute, network topology and segmentation, firewalls, TLS /
  ingress, DNS and strict environment separation (dev/staging/production).
• Operate the self-managed data and messaging estate at fleet scale — PostgreSQL 16 with HA / streaming replication (one database per engine), Redis (Sentinel / Cluster) and a multi-broker Apache Kafka cluster — with capacity planning, tuning and growth headroom for ~20 services.
• Own platform availability (target uptime, health management, self-healing), monitoring, alerting and capacity management across the fleet; ensure the append-only
  audit store and its immutability triggers are protected and backed up.
• Own backup and disaster-recovery architecture and rehearsed restore drills; define and prove RPO / RTO targets and maintain the DR runbook.
• Own platform-layer and infrastructure security — hardening, network policy, least privilege access, and the custody, storage and rotation of the platform-admin signing key, internal-service key and encryption keys (separated from the runtime application).
• Define and enforce the production topology and scaling model (replicas for IAM / workflow / business-object and other high-load engines) and partner with DevSecOps on deployment and with AppSec on end-to-end hardening and audit evidence.

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About Digital India Corporation

Digital India Corporation has been set up by the ‘Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology, Government of India’ to innovate, develop and deploy ICT and other emerging technologies for the benefit of the common man. It is a ‘not-for-profit’ company under Section 8 of the Companies Act 2013. The company has been spearheading the Digital India programme of the Government of India, and is involved in promoting the use of technology for e-Governance/e-Health / Telemedicine, e-agriculture, e-Payments, etc. The Digital India programme promotes safety and security concerns of the growing cashless economy and addresses challenges confronting its wider acceptance. It also promotes innovation and evolves models for the empowerment of citizens through Digital initiatives and promotes participatory governance and citizen engagement across the government through various platforms, including social media.