Platform as a Service Career Ladder
The best views come after the hardest climbs
Your career journey is like climbing a mountain. Every step up opens new possibilities. Our Career Ladder maps clear advancement paths with the skills and support needed to reach new professional heights.
About Platform as a Service (Yellow)
YELLOW empowers enterprise clients with a flexible environment for developing and deploying applications by eliminating infrastructure management—accelerating time-to-market and fostering innovation across industries. We provide cutting-edge infrastructure and platform solutions, meticulously engineered with built-in compliance and regulatory adherence. Our services enable governmental, fintech, and other highly regulated organizations to unlock the full potential of cloud technologies while ensuring security, integrity, and peace of mind.
Specialist / Engineer
Responsibilities
- Perform day-to-day operations on PaaS environments (VMware vSphere, Azure Stack Hub, etc.)
- Execute deployment and configuration tasks
- Monitor performance and troubleshoot basic issues
- Basic VMware/Azure deployments under supervision
- Troubleshoots VM issues
- Follows security best practices
- Follow SOPs and report any anomalies
Requirements
Architect
Responsibilities
- Design solutions within the on-prem cloud environment to meet customer requirements
- Draft HLD/LLD documents
- Lead implementation of medium-complexity projects
- Designs small-scale VMware/Azure solutions
- Implements vSAN, vMotion, DRS
- Documents architectures and Mentors juniors
- Provide advanced troubleshooting and performance tuning
Requirements
Senior Architect
Responsibilities
- Lead architectural design for complex environments
- Ensure standardization, scalability, and security in solutions
- Mentor junior team members and review peer designs
- Leads large-scale VMware/Azure deployments
- Optimizes performance (vSAN, clusters)
- Mentors junior engineers
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams for solution integration
Requirements
Technical Team Lead
Responsibilities
- Act as a technical reference point for engineers and architects
- Handle critical escalations and incidents
- Review technical deliverables and enforce best practices
- Oversees technical execution.- Leads technical discussions and Guides team technically
- Ensures high availability & scalability
- Guides troubleshooting - Handle/ assign technical research tasks
- Conduct PoCs and R&D for new technologies
Requirements
Team Lead
Responsibilities
- Lead a functional unit within the PaaS team (e.g., VMware squad)
- Manage resource allocation, task distribution, and capacity planning
- Monitor KPIs and report on team health
- Manages 5 - 10 engineers
- Aligns tech with business needs
- Coordinates with other teams
- Drive team enablement and performance feedback
Requirements
Supervisor
Responsibilities
- Supervise multiple team leads and ensure alignment with department objectives
- Ensure proper escalation flows and risk management
- Participate in strategic planning and service roadmap development
- Manages multiple teams
- Approves architectural decisions
- Reports to senior management
- Track project delivery timelines and budget adherence
Requirements
Manager 1
Responsibilities
- Own full delivery and operations of the PaaS vertical and Oversee multiple teams or technical domains (e.g., PaaS + IaaS)
- Collaborate with sales, product, and infrastructure teams to align strategies
- Define department-level KPIs and OKRs
- Acts as stakeholder liaison between engineering, product, and sales teams
- Vendor/Stakeholder management
- Manage hiring, budgeting, and vendor relationships
- Manages team performance - Ownership of business outcomes and innovation
Requirements
Manager 2
Responsibilities
- Serve as the visionary for cloud strategy within the organization
- Establish partnerships and strategic alliances
- Cross-department leadership and full pl responsibilities
- Lead enterprise-wide architecture or digital transformation initiative, and Strategic roadmap planning
- Executive decision-making, and set long term strategy
- Drive cultural and process change at the organizational level
- Negotiates enterprise-level partnerships (e.g., VMware Premier Solutions Provider)
Requirements
The climb has brought you close to the top, but the journey isn’t over—greater heights still await
