Senior Kubernetes Platform Engineer

3 months ago

Remote, GeorgiaSenior

Responsibilities

Build, operate, and evolve Kubernetes clusters across VM-based on-premises infrastructure and AWS EKS, GCP GKE, Azure AKS, and Oracle OKE.
Own cluster lifecycle management, including provisioning, upgrades, patching, and decommissioning.
Develop and maintain Terraform modules and cluster bootstrap and configuration automation.
Implement and operate GitOps workflows for platform components.
Integrate Kubernetes capabilities into the Internal Developer Platform through standardized cluster and namespace patterns and approved ingress, secrets, and observability integrations.
Participate in a rotational on-call and support model for platform-level incidents.
Troubleshoot Kubernetes platform and distributed-systems issues and improve reliability.
Create and maintain documentation, runbooks, and operational standards while collaborating across platform, application support, infrastructure, and security teams.

Strong hands-on experience operating production Kubernetes environments.
Experience with on-premises, VM-based infrastructure.
Solid understanding of Kubernetes internals, Linux systems, and networking.
Experience with Infrastructure as Code, preferably Terraform.
Experience working across multiple cloud environments, with deep expertise in at least one.
Familiarity with Git-based workflows and GitOps tools.
Proven ability to troubleshoot distributed systems and production issues.
Preferred experience with multiple managed Kubernetes services, on-premises Kubernetes, observability stacks, ingress and traffic management, secrets and certificate management, and Internal Developer Platform integration.
Understanding of SRE concepts including SLOs, error budgets, and incident response.

1,001-5,000 employees