Kubernetes\Platform Engineer

Kubernetes / Platform Engineer (Hybrid)

Platform Engineer to design, build, and maintain an internal developer platform enabling reliable software delivery at scale across multi-cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Infrastructure & Cloud: Provision and maintain cloud infrastructure on Azure, AWS, and GCP using Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g., Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation).
• Manage Terraform Cloud (workspaces, module registries) and policy-as-code governance (e.g., Sentinel / OPA).
• Architect and operate Kubernetes clusters across cloud providers (node pools, autoscaling, networking/CNI/service mesh, storage).
• Define cloud landing zones and identity/access frameworks aligned to security standards.
• GitOps & Continuous Delivery: Run and evolve GitOps delivery pipelines using Flux (cluster state, Helm releases, environment promotions from version control like GitHub).
• Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines with pipeline-as-code tools (e.g., Harness, GitHub Actions) including build, test, security scanning, and deployment workflows.
• Champion GitOps best practices (templates, documentation, enablement).
• Observability & Reliability: Implement full-stack observability (e.g., Dynatrace) including distributed tracing, monitoring, logs, synthetic monitoring, and SLO/SLI tracking.
• Define alerting, runbooks, and escalation paths; drive incident response and post-incident reviews.
• Track and improve platform reliability metrics (availability, error rate, latency).
• Developer Experience: Deliver self-service developer platform features (golden-path templates, shared libraries, developer portals) and reduce complexity for application teams.
• Collaborate with security, networking, and application engineering teams to integrate platform capabilities into the SDLC.
• Security & Compliance: Embed security controls in platform tooling (secrets management, image scanning, policy enforcement, RBAC, audit logging).
• Support compliance needs (e.g., SOC 2, PCI-DSS) via infrastructure controls and auditability.

Requirements

• 5+ years in platform engineering, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering.
• Hands-on Kubernetes production experience on at least one major cloud (AKS, EKS, or GKE).
• Strong Terraform and Terraform Cloud experience (workspaces, remote state, module registry, policy as code).
• Demonstrated GitOps and continuous delivery (e.g., Flux, Argo CD, or equivalent).
• CI/CD pipeline experience with tools such as Harness, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins.
• Multi-cloud knowledge across two or more of Azure/AWS/GCP.
• Scripting/programming language proficiency: Python, Go, or Bash.
• Observability platform experience (e.g., Dynatrace, Datadog, Prometheus/Grafana) and understanding of observability fundamentals.
• Networking fundamentals (DNS, TLS, load balancing, VPN).

Location / Work Model

• Hybrid: 3x per week in Lincolnshire, IL (United States).
• Non-visa candidates only.