Principal Platform Engineer- GCP and Kubernetes is a must

SonicWall; Pune District; Hybrid; INR 3,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

SonicWall in Pune, Maharashtra, India, is seeking a seasoned Principal Platform Engineer to lead our Kubernetes-based production environment. You will drive reliability, scalability, and observability across mission-critical systems, with hands-on work on Kubernetes, GCP, Terraform, and modern automation.

Responsibilities include maintaining and tuning the platform, ensuring system performance, and collaborating with Engineering and Support to implement scalable, resilient solutions.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of related experience in platform/SRE roles.
• Experience with Kubernetes in production environments.
• Strong Linux systems administration and troubleshooting skills.
• GCP cloud experience; Terraform and IaC workflows.
• Programming experience in Go or Python.

Responsibilities

• Maintain, scale, and enhance our Kubernetes production platform.
• Improve performance, reliability, and availability of production systems.
• Ensure observability across services, infrastructure, and applications.
• Diagnose and tune database and service performance in distributed systems.
• Collaborate with development teams to assess platform impact of features.
• Identify bottlenecks and contribute to scalable, resilient solutions.
• Work with Support to maintain runbooks and improve incident response.

Skills

Kubernetes production

Linux administration

Programming Go/Python

Networking fundamentals

Observability

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Master's degree

PhD (optional)

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

GCP

Job description

Principal Platform Engineer- GCP and Kubernetes is a must

Pune, Maharashtra, India

SonicWall is a cybersecurity forerunnerwith more than 30 years of expertise and is recognized as a leading partner-first company, ensuring our partners and their customers are never alonein the fight against cybercrime. With the ability to build, scale and manage security across the cloud, hybrid and traditional environments in real-time, SonicWall provides relentless security against the most evasive cyberattacks across endless exposure points for increasingly remote, mobile and cloud-enabled users. With its own threat research center, SonicWall can quickly and economically provide purpose-built security solutions to enable any organization—enterprise, government agencies and SMBs—around the world. For more information, visitwww.sonicwall.com or follow us onTwitter ,LinkedIn ,Facebook andInstagram .

We are seeking a seasoned Platform / Site Reliability Engineer to lead the evolution and performance of our Kubernetes-based production environment. In this role, you will drive reliability, scalability, and observability across mission-critical systems while working hands-on with Kubernetes, GCP, Terraform, and modern infrastructure automation. You will partner closely with Engineering and Support teams to optimize system performance, influence architectural decisions, and build resilient platforms that enable business growth at scale.

Responsibilities:

• Maintain, scale, and enhance our Kubernetes production platform
• Improve the performance, reliability, and availability of production systems
• Ensure comprehensive observability across services, infrastructure, and applications (metrics, logs, traces, alerts)
• Diagnose and tune database and service performance across distributed systems
• Partner with Development teams to assess platform impact of new features and architectural changes
• Identify architecture bottlenecks and contribute to scalable, resilient technical solutions
• Collaborate with Support teams to build and maintain operational runbooks and improve incident response processes

Requirements:

• 5+ years of hands-on Kubernetes experience in production environments
• Strong expertise with Linux systems administration and troubleshooting
• GCP cloud experience required; multi-cloud exposure is a plus
• Proficiency with Terraform and infrastructure-as-code workflows
• Strong understanding of container lifecycle management and deployments
• Programming experience in Go, Python, or a comparable language
• Experience with database performance optimization and tuning
• Solid knowledge of networking fundamentals and network-level troubleshooting

Education and Experience:

• At least 10+ years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 8 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 5 years experience; or equivalent experience preferred
• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field preferred
  

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