Platform Engineer

Platform Operations

• Operate and maintain a production-grade Kubernetes platform
• Ensure platform stability, availability, and performance across all environments
• Manage platform lifecycle activities, including upgrades, maintenance, and configuration changes
• Execute controlled platform releases with rollback strategies
• Maintain comprehensive operational documentation and runbooks

Kubernetes Administration

Operate and support Kubernetes platform components, including:

• Multi-cluster environments
• Ingress Controllers
• Service Discovery
• Workload Identity
• Storage (CSI, PV/PVC)
• Autoscaling (HPA/VPA)
• RBAC
• Network Policies
• Admission Controllers
• Pod Security Standards

Troubleshoot production issues such as:

• Pod lifecycle failures
• Crash loops
• OOM events
• Scheduling issues
• DNS and networking problems
• Resource bottlenecks
• Performance degradation

Incident Management & Operational Support

• Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation
• Respond rapidly to production incidents
• Lead or contribute to:
• Incident triage
• Service restoration
• Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
• Post-incident reviews
• Track corrective and preventive actions
• Continuously improve operational procedures

Observability & Monitoring

Manage the organization's observability platform by ensuring effective monitoring through:

• Metrics
• Logs
• Distributed tracing

Responsibilities include:

• Alert optimization
• Reducing alert fatigue
• Dashboard maintenance
• Telemetry analysis
• Performance monitoring
• Supporting incident investigations

Change & Release Management

• Plan and execute production changes
• Follow formal Change Management processes
• Communicate with stakeholders throughout deployments
• Ensure changes are documented, auditable, and low risk
• Coordinate platform maintenance windows

Security & Compliance

Operate and maintain platform security controls:

• RBAC
• Network segmentation
• Secret management
• Certificate lifecycle
• Vulnerability remediation
• Security patching

Support compliance activities by providing operational evidence during audits.

Automation & Platform Engineering

• Automate repetitive operational activities
• Standardize operational procedures
• Promote Infrastructure-as-Code and GitOps practices

Reduce operational risk through automation

Is this you?

Kubernetes (Expert Level)

• Production Kubernetes administration
• Multi-cluster management
• RBAC & Least Privilege
• Network Policies
• Pod Security Standards
• Stateful workloads
• CSI / Persistent Volumes
• HPA / VPA
• Admission Controllers
• Cluster troubleshooting
• Scheduling
• DNS
• Networking
• Performance tuning
• Reliability engineering

GitOps & Continuous Delivery

• Advanced ArgoCD
• App-of-Apps pattern
• Sync Waves
• Hooks
• Drift Detection
• Environment Promotion
• Git-based deployments
• Declarative platform management
• Harness.io pipelines
• Secure CI/CD
• Pull Request-driven workflows

Packaging & Configuration

• Advanced Helm
• Helm Library Charts
• OCI Registries
• Values Layering
• Kustomize
• Strategic Patches
• Multi-environment deployments

Container & Artifact Management

• Docker
• Secure multi-stage builds
• Image optimization
• Harbor
• JFrog Artifactory
• Artifact promotion
• Version management

Security

• HashiCorp Vault
• CSI Secret Injection
• RBAC Governance
• TLS / mTLS
• Certificate lifecycle
• Container vulnerability scanning
• Software Supply Chain Security

Observability

Strong experience with:

• OpenTelemetry
• Prometheus
• VictoriaMetrics
• Loki
• Tempo
• Grafana

Including:

• SLI / SLO design
• Error budgets
• Alert tuning
• Dashboard design
• Distributed tracing

Networking

Advanced understanding of:

• TCP/IP
• DNS
• TLS / mTLS
• Kubernetes Networking
• Services
• Ingress
• Reverse Proxies
• API Routing
• Traffic Management
• East-West / North-South traffic
• Network Policies

Automation

• Advanced Bash scripting
• Infrastructure automation
• Platform-as-Code mindset

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Kong API Gateway
• Redis
• PostgreSQL
• MongoDB
• Kargo (ArgoCD Release Orchestration)

• Proven experience operating large-scale production platforms
• Strong troubleshooting capabilities across distributed systems
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to perform effectively under pressure
• Clear written and verbal communication during incidents
• Strong ownership and accountability
• Excellent collaboration with Development, Security, and Product teams
• Documentation-first mindset, * Structured and methodical
• Risk-aware
• Detail-oriented
• Customer-focused
• Operationally driven
• Comfortable working in mission-critical environments
• Committed to continuous improvement