Senior Staff Engineer - Container Engineering

United States Digital Space LLC; Karnataka; On-site; INR 1,400,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a hands-on Software Engineer to own and evolve our Kubernetes platforms (Rancher/RKE2 or AKS) and advance automation, observability, and security across production clusters. You will collaborate with engineering, security, and operations to deliver scalable, reliable infrastructure that speeds development and reduces risk.

The role emphasizes leadership, mentoring, and contributing to the platform roadmap while ensuring compliance and best practices in

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Platform, SRE, or DevOps roles with deep production Kubernetes experience.
• Strong ownership of complex systems and ability to drive platform-level initiatives.
• Expertise in GitOps, CI/CD architecture, and Infrastructure as Code.
• Advanced troubleshooting across large-scale distributed systems.
• Excellent communication and cross-team influencing abilities.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve Kubernetes platforms (Rancher/RKE2 or AKS), defining upgrades, scaling, performance, cost, backups, and HA.
• Design and lead automation initiatives using Terraform, Helm/Kustomize, reusable CI/CD workflows, and scalable onboarding.
• Own GitOps architecture with Argo CD, including digest-pinned deployments, policy-as-code, image signing/SBOM integration, drift detection, and rollbacks.
• Define and harden CI/CD patterns balancing speed, security, and compliance with identity-based access and audit trails.
• Set strategy for container supply chain security and registry governance (ACR); establish promotion models and immutability.
• Own platform observability: SLOs, alerts, dashboards, and capacity hygiene across clusters.
• Collaborate with engineering, infrastructure, and security leadership on platform adoption, incident response, and runbooks.
• Provide technical leadership through mentoring, design influence, and roadmap contributions.

Skills

Kubernetes

GitOps

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Platform Engineering

SRE

DevOps

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Terraform

Helm/Kustomize

Argo CD

Rancher/RKE2

AKS

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Overview

Connecting clients to markets, and talent for opportunity.

With 4,300 employees and over 400,000 retail and institutional clients from more than 80 offices across five continents, we are a Fortune 100, Nasdaq listed provider connecting clients to global markets. We focus on innovation, human connection, and deliver world class products and services to all types of investors. As a Software Engineer on the Containers team, you’ll build, run, and continuously improve our Kubernetes platform, the foundation for application delivery. You’ll work hands‑on with cluster operations, networking, ingress, storage, and core platform services, partnering closely with development, security, and operations teams to support day‑to‑day platform needs and drive automation through infrastructure as code and CI/CD. Using cloud-native and open-source tools, you’ll help keep the platform scalable, reliable, and secure while improving performance and developer experience so teams can ship faster and with confidence.

This is a highly hands‑on role where your work directly shapes developer experience and platform reliability, enabling teams across the company to ship faster, safer, and on a scale.

Responsibilities

Own and evolve Kubernetes platforms (Rancher/RKE2 or AKS), defining standards for upgrades, scaling strategies, performance tuning, cost/capacity management, backups, and HA architecture.

• Design and lead automation and golden path initiatives, including Terraform modules, Helm/Kustomize frameworks, reusable CI/CD workflows, and scalable self‑service onboarding.
• Own GitOps architecture with Argo CD, including digest‑pinned deployments, policy‑as‑code, image signing/SBOM integration, drift detection, and rollback strategies.
• Define and harden CI/CD patterns that balance speed, security, and compliance, including identity‑based cloud access, approvals, and immutable audit trails.
• Set strategy for container supply chain security and registry governance (ACR), including promotion models and immutability.
• Own platform observability, defining SLOs, alerting standards, dashboards, and capacity hygiene across clusters.
• Partner closely with engineering, infrastructure, and security leaders on platform adoption, incident response, runbooks, and long‑term planning.
• Act as a technical leader on the team: mentoring engineers, influencing design decisions, and contributing to roadmap planning.
• Ensure security and compliance controls are built into the platform by default without slowing delivery.

Qualifications

To land this role you will need 5+ years in Platform, SRE, or DevOps roles with deep production Kubernetes experience.

• Proven ownership of complex systems and experience driving platform-level initiatives.
• Strong expertise in GitOps, CI/CD architecture, and Infrastructure as Code.
• Advanced troubleshooting skills across large-scale distributed systems.
• Strong communication skills and experience influencing across teams.

What makes you stand out

• Experience with Rancher/RKE2 or AKS in production environments.
• Familiarity with policy‑as‑code, image signing, SBOMs, or regulated CI/CD environments.
• Experience integrating AI/ML-driven automation into containerized infrastructure and DevOps workflows.

Education / Certification Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Preferred certifications: Terraform Associate, Kubernetes certifications such as CKA or CKAD.
• Commitment to continual professional and technical development.

Working environment

• Hybrid, four days in the office.
• Occasional travel requirements, for team collaboration meetings and conferences.