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Job description
Ginesys One is hiring a VP Platform — a full-time, based in Gurgaon, India role. Apply directly on Ginesys One's careers page below.
VP - Platform
Location: Gurgaon, India
Department: Platform Engineering
Experience: 15
About Ginesys
Ginesys is India's leading retail technology platform, powering 1,200+ customers and 50,000+ users through the unified GinesysOne suite — ERP, Cloud POS (Zwing), Order Management (Browntape), GST Compliance (EaseMyGST), and BI (InsightX). We are evolving from a System of Records to a System of Intelligence through Ginesys.AI.
Role Summary
The VP Platform runs the current infrastructure while building the target platform. This is an operating role and a transformation role.
The role keeps existing SaaS environments stable, builds the new cloud-native platform, owns the Oracle to Postgres migration pipeline, establishes the security practice, and brings platform engineering discipline into the way teams ship.
What This Role Owns
- Current SaaS infrastructure stability.
- Target cloud-native platform architecture and operations.
- Kubernetes, Postgres, Kafka, Redis, Kong, observability, and CI/CD platform foundations.
- Oracle to Postgres migration tooling, validation, rollback, and cutover support.
- Platform SLOs, incident response, on-call model, and environment controls.
- Security, network, access, secrets, WAF, and compliance readiness.
- DBA practice across Oracle legacy operations and PostgreSQL target operations.
- Platform team structure, hiring, standards, and capability building.
What This Role Does Not Own
- Product roadmap or commercial prioritization.
- Domain business rules owned by Supply Chain, Core Commerce, or Digital Commerce.
- Architecture authority for bounded contexts, which sits with the Chief Architect and Technical Design Council.
- Program status governance, which sits with the Transformation Program Lead.
- Embedded engineering delivery inside domain squads.
Key Responsibilities
Platform Operations
- Own infrastructure across current and target environments.
- Define and operate platform SLOs.
- Manage environment provisioning, access, capacity, and decommissioning.
- Reduce cloud waste through shared infrastructure, capacity discipline, and retention controls.
Target Platform
- Build the shared platform foundation for Kubernetes, Postgres, Kafka, Redis, Kong, observability, and CI/CD.
- Establish standards for deployments, secrets, networking, monitoring, tracing, and release automation.
- Make platform capabilities usable by domain teams without each team having to invent its own tooling.
Migration Engineering
- Own the Oracle to Postgres migration pipeline with the migration engineering team.
- Define migration throughput, data validation, rollback readiness, and post-migration checks.
- Work with domain teams and Principal QA on parity, shadow, pilot, and cutover readiness.
Security And Reliability
- Build the security practice and baseline controls.
- Establish incident response, on-call, alerting, and production review practices.
- Drive SOC2 / ISO 27001 readiness where needed.
Team Building
- Lead a distributed platform organization across infrastructure, DBA, security, DevOps/SRE, internal IT, and migration engineering.
- Hire senior platform, security, SRE, and DevOps talent where the current team has gaps.
- Grow junior engineers into a disciplined platform practice.
Required Experience
- 15+ years in infrastructure, platform engineering, SRE, database operations, or cloud operations.
- Experience leading teams of meaningful size and mixed seniority.
- Deep experience in at least two of Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Azure/AWS, Kafka, observability, or security operations.
- Experience running production systems while modernizing them.
- Strong understanding of multi-tenant SaaS operations, access control, reliability, and incident management.
- Hands-on comfort with infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD tooling.
Helpful Experience
- Oracle to Postgres migration experience.
- Retail, ERP, POS, OMS, or e-commerce platform experience.
- Experience building a platform team from an early stage.
- Familiarity with .NET, Java/Spring Boot, and mixed-stack modernization.
- Compliance exposure, including ISO 27001, SOC2, penetration testing, or security audits.
Benefits:
We like to think that talent grows at Ginesys and stays at Ginesys. To ensure this, we provide our employees with the best working environment, the latest technology and continuous support. We go out of our way to retain the small business feeling with which we started and stimulate innovation and collaboration through teamwork and our non-hierarchical approach. We offer competitive salary, and other fantastic perks and benefits, such as:
Ginesys Academy for holistic training and development
Comprehensive health insurance coverage
Excellent rewards and recognition policy
Transparent compensation policy with no unnecessary deduction in CTC
Annual company off-site and a variety of events, celebrations throughout the year
Travelling opportunities between our offices across the country.
Annual Ginesys walkathon & related sporting events
Quarterly Coffee with CEO and more!
Here’s our story; now tell us yours
“Ginesys One” is India’s best omni retail suite backed by Ginesys, the first integrated Retail specific ERP software for online retail, offline retail and distribution. It is the largest Indian company in the retail tech industry catering to both online and offline needs. 1200 + brands including (Manyavar, V-Mart, Skechers) are accelerating their businesses with Ginesys. With a team of 400+ employees, Ginesys One plans to revolutionize retail by being a single-stop cloud-based retail suite.
We have a pan India presence with offices in major cities including Gurgaon, Kolkata, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Coimbatore & Goa and are expanding rapidly. We love the challenges of retail and are busy solving them to create a great retail tech suite.
Ginesys core mission is to continue to build world-class internal service capabilities, in a bid to deliver outstanding external service value to customers. We are an ISO-certified and SOC compliant company having won myriad awards for our innovation and support. For further information, please visit our website http://ginesys.in
BGV will be conducted by a third-party agency, and any discrepancies or failure in the verification process will lead to immediate termination of employment.
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Frequently asked questions
What skills are required for VP Platform at Ginesys One?
The required skills for VP Platform at Ginesys One include: Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Redis, CI/CD, Oracle, Azure, AWS, SRE, DevOps, SOC 2, ISO 27001.
What is the seniority level for VP Platform at Ginesys One?
VP Platform at Ginesys One is a C Level / Manager level position.
How do I apply for VP Platform at Ginesys One?
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