Senior Lead Kubernetes Platform & Automation Engineer

Coupa Software

Poland

Hybrid

PLN 288,000 - 402,000

Full time

14 days+
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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.

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