Smarsh

Platform Engineer III

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2 days ago
Bengaluru, IndiaSenior

Responsibilities

  • Design, deploy, and manage reliable, secure, and cost-efficient Kubernetes clusters on AWS EKS.
  • Develop and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar tools with version control and CI/CD integration.
  • Architect AWS networking solutions involving VPCs, security groups, load balancing, and service mesh technologies.
  • Implement IAM strategies including RBAC, service accounts, least-privilege controls, and cross-account access patterns.
  • Establish infrastructure observability and monitoring, troubleshoot production issues, and drive continuous improvement.
  • Partner with development teams to enable self-service infrastructure capabilities and reduce operational friction.
  • Document architectural decisions and maintain runbooks for critical infrastructure.
  • Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, production troubleshooting, cost optimization, and capacity planning.

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of infrastructure engineering or equivalent platform engineering experience.
  • Strong hands-on experience deploying, managing, and troubleshooting Kubernetes in production.
  • Expertise with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
  • Strong AWS knowledge, particularly EC2, ECS/EKS, RDS, S3, VPC, and related networking services.
  • Deep IAM knowledge and experience implementing least-privilege access controls.
  • Experience with TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, load balancing, service mesh technologies, containers, and container orchestration.
  • Proficiency in at least one programming or scripting language such as Go, Python, or Bash.
  • Experience with service mesh technologies such as Istio or Linkerd.
  • Familiarity with GitOps workflows and tools such as ArgoCD or Flux.
  • Experience with observability and monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or New Relic.
  • Knowledge of Kubernetes and AWS security practices, including pod security policies, network policies, and SIEM integration.
  • Experience using Claude.ai or similar AI tools to improve productivity and problem solving.
  • Experience with AWS cost optimization, capacity planning, on-call escalations, and incident response.

Benefits

  • The posting describes a collaborative culture focused on lifelong learning, innovation, diversity, and employee development.
  • The role includes on-call rotations and operational incident-response responsibilities.
  • The position uses AWS, Kubernetes, infrastructure, observability, collaboration, and AI-assisted development tooling.

Tech Stack

AWSBashDatadogDockerGitGoGrafanaHelmIstioKubernetesPrometheusPythonTerraform

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About Smarsh

1,001-5,000 employees

Smarsh builds cloud-native software that captures, archives, and supervises digital communications (email, chat, social, mobile, web) to meet regulatory compliance, e-discovery, and risk needs. Its SaaS platform serves heavily regulated enterprises—especially financial services and the public sector—and applies AI for surveillance and insights. The privately held company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Portland, Oregon.

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