Kubernetes Platform Engineer
Amazon.com, Inc.
Chantilly, United States of America
5 days ago
Role details
Contract type
Permanent contract Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours) Working hours
Regular working hours Languages
English Experience level
SeniorJob location
Chantilly, United States of America
Tech stack
Kubernetes Security
Java
Applications Architecture
Azure
Cloud Computing
Cloud Engineering
Configuration Management
Computer Programming
Continuous Integration
DevOps
Github
Python
Automation of Marketing
Node.js
Openshift
Role-Based Access Control
Ansible
Shell Script
Software Engineering
Data Logging
Scripting (Bash/Python/Go/Ruby)
System Availability
Grafana
Kubernetes Helm Charts
Cloudformation
Containerization
Kubernetes
Infrastructure Automation Frameworks
Information Technology
Deployment Automation
Terraform
Jenkins
Go
Job description
We are looking for an experienced Kubernetes Platform Engineer with 10+ years of overall IT experience and strong expertise in DevOps, Azure, OpenShift, CI/CD, and platform engineering. The ideal candidate will be responsible for enabling development teams to onboard applications onto enterprise Kubernetes platforms in a streamlined and standardized way. This role requires strong hands-on experience with cloud-native technologies, container platforms, automation, and developer support. Key Responsibilities:
- Support and guide application development teams in onboarding their applications onto the Kubernetes platform using standard and streamlined processes.
- Collaborate with Development, Platform Engineering, Operations, and Release Engineering teams to design and improve platform solutions that enhance developer experience and accelerate platform adoption.
- Drive cloud-native development best practices and help teams build scalable, resilient, and containerized applications.
- Partner with Release Engineering teams to implement and promote GitOps practices for version-controlled deployments and automated infrastructure management.
- Provide troubleshooting and support for Kubernetes-based applications, platform configurations, container deployments, and connectivity issues.
- Develop and maintain onboarding guides, platform documentation, best practices, and practical implementation examples for engineering teams.
- Conduct technical training sessions and workshops to help teams adopt Kubernetes, OpenShift, and cloud-native capabilities effectively.
- Collect feedback from development teams and continuously improve platform onboarding processes, tooling, and support models.
- Contribute to platform reliability, automation, scalability, and operational excellence across enterprise container ecosystems.
Requirements
- 10+ years of overall IT experience with strong background in software engineering, DevOps, and platform engineering.
- Hands-on expertise in Kubernetes, OpenShift, containers, and enterprise platform onboarding.
- Strong experience with Azure cloud platform and cloud-native application architecture.
- Good understanding of CI/CD pipelines and tools such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar automation platforms.
- Experience with GitOps tools such as ArgoCD for deployment automation and configuration management.
- Knowledge of observability tools for monitoring, logging, alerting, metrics, and tracing in Kubernetes environments.
- Proficiency in at least one programming or scripting language such as Go, Python, Java, Node.js, or Shell scripting.
- Strong troubleshooting experience with containerized workloads, Kubernetes deployments, and platform support.
- Good understanding of DevOps practices, automation, scalability, resiliency, and developer enablement.
Preferred Skills:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent work experience.
- Familiarity with container security best practices, image scanning, and Kubernetes RBAC.
- Experience with Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation for infrastructure automation.
- Knowledge of Helm charts, OpenShift Operators, and CNCF ecosystem tools.
- Experience working in large-scale enterprise platform environments supporting multiple development teams.
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