Senior Platform Engineer
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Job Details
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Required Skills
- PythonKubernetesGoGrafanaPrometheusTerraform
Requirements
- 5+ years of hands-on experience in platform engineering, site reliability engineering (SRE), or core DevOps.
- Expert-level mastery of Kubernetes administration, custom controller/operator architectures, and service meshes (Istio/Linkerd).
- Experience with continuous delivery via GitOps tools (ArgoCD or Flux).
- Deep proficiency using Terraform, OpenTofu, or Pulumi to construct modular, reusable infrastructure blueprints across cloud environments (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
- Strong programming skills in Go or Python to build custom platform extensions, CLI tools, Kubernetes operators, and API integrations.
- Practical experience building or integrating developer portals (e.g., Backstage, Port) and automated workflow engines.
- Hands-on experience establishing end-to-end telemetry standards using Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry.
Responsibilities
- Architect, build, and maintain self-service platform tools and developer portals that enable product teams to independently provision infrastructure, manage environments, and deploy services.
- Maintain robust, automated GitOps delivery pipelines using ArgoCD/Flux, establishing safe deployment practices (canary, blue-green, automated rollbacks).
- Maintain cluster health, upgrade lifecycles, autoscaling policies, and security policies across multi-region Kubernetes deployments.
- Write production-grade Go/Python code to build custom Kubernetes operators, CLI utilities, and API automation to streamline developer workflows.
- Establish platform-wide SLI/SLO tracking, implement centralized logging and tracing infrastructure, and enforce automated security and cost-compliance policies across environments.
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