DIC Platform & Security Engineer Recruitment 2026 Online Form

DIC Platform & Security Engineer — 1 post

Digital India Corporation (DIC), set up by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India, has invited online applications for 1 post of Platform & Security Engineer under Advertisement No. N-22030/149/2024-DIC dated 3 November 2026. This is one of 11 posts under the same advertisement — one each — for DIC's Digital Office Platform, a multi-tenant, configuration-driven government case-management platform built as around 20 Spring Boot microservices, each with its own PostgreSQL database, behind a Next.js web application on sovereign / government cloud. The engagement is purely on contract / consolidated basis. The place of posting is Delhi/NCR, transferable to DIC project locations.

Eligibility

Bachelor's degree in any discipline with 6+ years of experience in infrastructure / platform engineering with a strong security focus; experience operating production microservice fleets preferred.

The role needs hosting-agnostic experience on private / sovereign / government cloud (VMware, OpenStack or KVM) and Kubernetes; deep self-managed PostgreSQL (high availability, streaming replication, many databases), Redis and Apache Kafka operations; Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform / Ansible), backup and disaster-recovery tooling, and self-hosted observability (Prometheus / Grafana / ELK); and key-management and secrets custody, with familiarity with STQC / DPDP infrastructure controls and data-residency requirements. The engineer designs and operates the hosting environment, runs the data and messaging estate at fleet scale, owns platform availability and backup / disaster recovery, and owns platform-layer and infrastructure security including custody of the platform-admin signing key, internal-service key and encryption keys.

Pay

No pay figure is stated in the advertisement. The consolidated remuneration shall be commensurate with qualifications and experience within the approved project norms.

Fee

No application fee is mentioned in the advertisement. There is no fee section and no payment instruction in the 20-page advertisement.

Age limit

No numeric age limit is stated in the advertisement. Its general conditions only say that the maximum age shall be as on the last date of receipt of applications, without giving any figure.

Selection

Shortlisting is carried out through an objective evaluation matrix based on educational qualification, relevant experience, domain expertise, certifications and publications. Only shortlisted candidates are invited for the selection interview. DIC reserves the right not to fill the post without assigning any reason.

How to apply

Apply online through the DIC ORA portal (link below) by 18 November 2026. Candidates already in regular or contractual employment under Central / State Government, Public Sector Undertakings or Autonomous Bodies should apply through proper channel or attach a No Objection Certificate from the employer, or produce it at the time of interview. The appointment is purely temporary for the project and carries no claim to a permanent appointment at DIC.