Sr Engineer - Managed Kubernetes

We are looking for a Senior Engineer – Managed Kubernetes Platform to design, build, and operate reliable cloud-native platform capabilities across public cloud, hybrid cloud, and on-premises environments. In this role, you will own Kubernetes platform components and problem spaces end-to-end, independently solve complex technical and operational problems, and partner with product and engineering teams to deliver secure, scalable, and easy-to-use platform services. You will bring deep Kubernetes and platform engineering expertise, improve how the platform performs in production, and help other engineers grow through technical guidance and constructive feedback.

• →Own Kubernetes platform services or components through design, implementation, deployment, and production operation; make sound decisions that balance customer needs, reliability, security, maintainability, and delivery constraints.
• →Build and maintain platform automation, tooling, controllers, and services, primarily using Go (Golang), and contribute production-quality code with appropriate tests and clear operational behavior.
• →Provision, configure, upgrade, troubleshoot, and optimize Kubernetes clusters and supporting infrastructure across cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments, including Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) where applicable.
• →Design and improve Kubernetes networking and connectivity, including CNI, ingress, services, network policies, load balancing, traffic routing, and service-to-service communication.
• →Automate infrastructure and platform changes using Infrastructure as Code and Kubernetes tools such as Terraform, Helm, and Kustomize; implement and improve GitOps workflows with Argo CD and/or Flux.
• →Improve platform observability and operations through useful metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, alerts, health indicators, and service thresholds; use production data to identify patterns and drive reliability and performance improvements.
• →Design for failure and recovery by establishing clear failure boundaries, applying retries, timeouts, and other appropriate resilience patterns, and ensuring services degrade gracefully.
• →Participate in and independently manage incidents for owned systems, coordinate investigation and resolution, communicate status clearly, and follow through on root-cause analysis and reliability improvements.
• →Apply secure-by-default practices to platform services and automation, understand relevant threats, manage secrets appropriately, remediate findings, and work with security and platform partners on effective controls.
• →Lead technical discussions within the team and collaborate with partner teams on multi-component designs, integrations, operational improvements, and delivery of platform capabilities.
• →Review code and designs with a focus on quality, testability, security, and operational risk; provide coaching-oriented feedback and mentor engineers in Kubernetes and platform engineering practices.
• →Document technical evaluations, decisions, runbooks, and operational procedures so that engineers and stakeholders can understand and support the platform.

• Strong software development experience in Go (Golang), including the ability to build, test, troubleshoot, and maintain production services or platform tooling.
• Hands-on experience designing, administering, and operating Kubernetes platforms, including cluster provisioning, configuration, upgrades, troubleshooting, and production support.
• Experience operating Kubernetes on a public cloud platform; GCP and GKE experience is preferred, with AWS, Azure, or equivalent cloud experience also relevant
• Strong understanding of Kubernetes architecture and networking, including CNI plugins, ingress controllers, Services, Network Policies, load balancing, traffic routing, and connectivity.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and Kubernetes configuration or deployment tools such as Terraform, Helm, and Kustomize.
• Experience implementing GitOps practices using tools such as Argo CD and/or Flux, and building or maintaining CI/CD automation for platform changes.
• Experience with platform observability, including metrics, logging, monitoring, alerting, and distributed tracing, and using operational data to diagnose issues and improve services.
• Experience administering Linux systems and troubleshooting container runtime or host-level issues.
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes storage, including CSI drivers, Persistent Volumes, Persistent Volume Claims, Storage Classes, StatefulSets, and backup or recovery considerations.
• Demonstrated ability to independently investigate problems involving multiple connected components or systems, identify root causes, and implement durable improvements.
• Ability to communicate technical decisions clearly, collaborate with business and engineering partners, and explain platform concepts to audiences with different levels of technical context.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, cloud engineering, infrastructure engineering, or a related field, including meaningful hands-on Kubernetes experience.
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) and/or Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) certification.
• Experience with multi-cluster or hybrid Kubernetes environments, cluster lifecycle automation, and platform self-service capabilities.
• Experience with disaster recovery planning, performance or capacity testing, and safe release practices such as progressive rollout and rollback.
• Experience contributing to shared engineering practices, technical learning, or open-source projects.