Kubernetes Platform Architect - Reliability & Scale

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company in

Durham (NC)

Hybrid

USD 157,000 - 361,000

Full time

4 days ago
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Job summary

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is seeking a Principal Platform Engineer with deep Kubernetes and distributed systems expertise to evolve and operate the Object Storage platform. This hybrid role requires you to work 2 days per week from an HPE office, partnering across engineering teams to diagnose production issues and drive scalable, reliable platform capabilities.

The role emphasizes hands-on leadership, architectural influence, and you will mentor senior engineers while developing repeatable

Qualifications

  • Significant experience designing, building, and operating production Kubernetes platforms.
  • Deep understanding of Kubernetes architecture and core components.
  • Strong knowledge of HA and failure-recovery patterns for distributed systems.
  • Experience troubleshooting complex production failures involving Kubernetes, networking, storage, and applications.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the senior technical authority for Kubernetes platform architecture and reliability.
  • Own investigations and resolutions of complex issues: pod failover, service availability, control plane and node failover, timeouts.
  • Define improvements to high availability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery.
  • Mentor engineers and drive cross-team ownership of platform capabilities.

Skills

Kubernetes platform design
Distributed systems
Go/Python/Bash
Observability/SRE

Job description

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is seeking a Principal Platform Engineer with deep Kubernetes and distributed systems expertise to evolve and operate the Object Storage platform. This hybrid role requires you to work 2 days per week from an HPE office, partnering across engineering teams to diagnose production issues and drive scalable, reliable platform capabilities.

The role emphasizes hands-on leadership, architectural influence, and you will mentor senior engineers while developing repeatable

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