Senior Lead Kubernetes Platform & Automation Engineer

Coupa Software; Poland; Hybrid; PLN 288,000 - 402,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Global Wellness Days

BirthdayTime-Off

VolunteerTimeOff (VTO)

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Business Travel Protection

Referral Bonus Program

Job summary

Coupa is seeking a Sr Lead Cloud Platform Engineer to shepherd a massively scaled Kubernetes environment. You will champion automation, drive cost avoidance with FinOps, and lead architecture across 140+ clusters to deliver highly available services.

In this role you will mentor engineers, implement IaC with Terraform/OpenTofu, and collaborate with Cloud, FinOps, and Finance teams to optimize capacity and performance while aligning with business goals.

Qualifications

• 7-10 years+ proven experience as a Principal or Lead Platform Engineer managing Kubernetes at massive enterprise scale.
• 5+ years experience designing and maintaining Kubernetes clusters.
• Deep hands-on with resource automation platforms and automated scaling tools like Karpenter or Cluster Autoscaler.
• Strong understanding of FinOps principles and cost-avoidance in cloud-native environments.
• Good understanding of networking and containerization technologies.
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or OpenTofu) mastery.
• Deep expertise in AWS or GCP or Azure cloud services.

Responsibilities

• Architect, manage, and scale enterprise Kubernetes infrastructure across a large fleet of clusters.
• Lead automated workload optimization to reduce manual tuning and toil.
• Manage and extend intelligent resource automation platforms for sizing and placement.
• Collaborate with Cloud Engineering, FinOps, and Finance to drive cost avoidance and alignment.
• Design IaC and observability tools for the Kubernetes ecosystem.
• Mentor senior and junior engineers to raise technical standards and platform resilience.

Skills

Kubernetes

FinOps

Networking

Terraform/OpenTofu

AWS/GCP/Azure

Cross-functional communication

Containerization

Tools

Karpenter

Cluster Autoscaler

Terraform

OpenTofu

Job description

Coupa is seeking a Sr Lead Cloud Platform Engineer to shepherd a massively scaled Kubernetes environment. You will champion automation, drive cost avoidance with FinOps, and lead architecture across 140+ clusters to deliver highly available services.

In this role you will mentor engineers, implement IaC with Terraform/OpenTofu, and collaborate with Cloud, FinOps, and Finance teams to optimize capacity and performance while aligning with business goals.