DIC - Platform & Security Engineer Recruitment 2026

Digital India Corporation (DIC), a not-for-profit company set up by the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology, Government of India, is inviting applications for one Platform & Security Engineer post on a contractual basis. The last date shown on its openings page is 18 November 2026, and applications are made through the Apply Here link on that page.

The official notification page does not specify the age limit, the pay, the application fee, the selection process or the minimum educational qualification.

Digital India Corporation was 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.

The openings page does not state the minimum educational qualification, experience or age limit for the Platform & Security Engineer post. Candidates should check the official detailed notification for the discipline-specific eligibility of the post.

The openings page lists these responsibilities for the Platform & Security Engineer:

• 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, and 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.

The DIC openings page carries an Apply Here link for this post, and applications close on 18 November 2026. The page also carries a Download Detailed Notification link. The steps of the application form are not described on the page.