Kubernetes Platform Engineer — Cloud-Native Automation

Lowe's; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Lowe's is seeking a Software Engineer in Charlotte to help build and evolve Kubernetes platform capabilities powering enterprise applications. You will combine software engineering, automation, and hands-on Kubernetes experience to improve reliability, scalability, and developer experience.

You will independently own work within your area while collaborating with senior engineers on platform architecture and broader infrastructure challenges, using Go, Python, Terraform, GitOps, and public cloud.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer information systems, or related field or equivalent years of experience.
• 2 years of experience in software development or a related field
• 2 years of experience working on projects implementing SDLC through iterative agile development
• 2 years experience working with frontend technologies, middleware, databases, or DevOps

Responsibilities

• Build, automate, and support Kubernetes platform capabilities across on-premises, edge, and cloud environments.
• Develop automation and platform services using Go, Python, Shell, APIs, and Infrastructure-as-Code.
• Support Kubernetes provisioning, configuration, upgrades, scaling, and lifecycle management.
• Troubleshoot production issues across Kubernetes, Linux, containers, and related infrastructure.
• Contribute to platform capabilities across virtualization, networking, storage, observability, security, and GitOps.
• Participate in technical design discussions to improve platform reliability, scalability, performance, and maintainability.
• Identify opportunities to reduce operational toil, increase automation, and make the platform easier for application teams to use.
• Contribute to production readiness, incident response, root-cause analysis, documentation, and engineering best practices.
• Experience in software engineering, platform engineering, SRE, DevOps, cloud infrastructure, or a related engineering discipline.
• Hands-on experience working with Kubernetes in production environments.
• Strong Linux, container, and Kubernetes fundamentals.
• Experience building automation with Go, Python, and/or Shell.
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code or configuration automation tools such as Terraform or Ansible.
• Experience with Git-based development and CI/CD or GitOps practices.
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes networking, storage, and production troubleshooting.
• A software engineering mindset with an interest in automation, reliability, and solving infrastructure problems.

Skills

Kubernetes experience

Go

Python

Shell

Terraform

Ansible

GitOps

Linux

CI/CD

Cloud infrastructure

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field

Tools

KubeVirt

VMware

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

Lowe's is seeking a Software Engineer in Charlotte to help build and evolve Kubernetes platform capabilities powering enterprise applications. You will combine software engineering, automation, and hands-on Kubernetes experience to improve reliability, scalability, and developer experience.

You will independently own work within your area while collaborating with senior engineers on platform architecture and broader infrastructure challenges, using Go, Python, Terraform, GitOps, and public cloud.