Lead Data Platform Reliability Engineer: Kubernetes

ATS CONSULTING SERVICES PH INC.; Mandaluyong; On-site; PHP 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

ATS CONSULTING SERVICES PH INC. is seeking a Senior Data Platform Reliability Engineer to operate, maintain, and continuously improve data platforms on Kubernetes (on‑prem and cloud). You will contribute to DoEKS/AIoEKS deployment frameworks and drive reliability across the stack.

You will deploy releases through GitOps, monitor health with logs and metrics, participate in incident response, mentor junior engineers, and advocate for platform standards, security, and operational excellence.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of solid experience supporting production data workloads/platforms (Spark/Airflow/Jupyter).
• 5+ years of hands-on experience on ETL/ELT pipeline development & data transformations (Python/Java & SQL).
• Practical proficiency in Kubernetes environments including Cloud-provider managed Kubernetes flavors (AWS-EKS/GCP-GKE).
• Comprehensive knowledge on Linux environments, microservice architectures and service communication patterns.
• Strong troubleshooting fundamentals such as application crashes, resource contentions, service latency, and scaling behaviour.
• Well-rounded competency in analysing logs, metrics, monitoring systems, and service KPIs.
• Exposure to other Data/AI platforms such as Flink, Trino, Druid, and Ray.
• Hands-on experience with automation or scripting (Bash, Python).
• Kubernetes or Data certifications (CKAD, AWS Certified Data Engineer).

Responsibilities

• Deploy new releases and configuration changes through GitOps/DevOps
• Monitor platform and service health using logs, metrics, and observability tools
• Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and 24x7 operational rotations
• Improve platform observability, operational tooling/automations, self-service capabilities, and reliability practices to reduce recurring issues
• Investigate & troubleshoot user concerns by either correlating them to system-related issues, breaking integrations, and/or user-specific errors/misconfigurations up to recommending/executing resolutions
• Provide technical mentorship to junior engineers
• Advocate for platform standards, security best practices, and operational excellence

Skills

Spark

Airflow

Jupyter

Python

Java

SQL

Linux

CI/CD

Observability

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS EKS

GKE

Bash

Job description

ATS CONSULTING SERVICES PH INC. is seeking a Senior Data Platform Reliability Engineer to operate, maintain, and continuously improve data platforms on Kubernetes (on‑prem and cloud). You will contribute to DoEKS/AIoEKS deployment frameworks and drive reliability across the stack.

You will deploy releases through GitOps, monitor health with logs and metrics, participate in incident response, mentor junior engineers, and advocate for platform standards, security, and operational excellence.