Kubernetes Platform Engineer for AI-Driven Systems

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

AMD Benefits

Job summary

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) is seeking a hands-on Platform Engineer in San Jose to design, build, and operate a scalable internal platform.

You will work across Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability, and AI/ML workloads to provide a reliable, secure developer experience. The ideal candidate has 6+ years in platform engineering or related fields, strong Kubernetes ops skills, and hands‑on experience with Terraform, Argo CD, Prometheus, Grafana, and open source tooling.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field or equivalent practical experience.
• 6+ years of experience in software engineering, DevOps, SRE, cloud infrastructure, or platform engineering.
• Strong hands-on experience operating and automating Kubernetes environments.
• Experience with container technologies and deployment tooling such as Docker, Helm, Kustomize, Argo CD, Flux, or similar.
• Experience implementing infrastructure as code using Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation, Ansible, or comparable tools.
• Observability platforms and concepts: metrics, logging, tracing, alerting, dashboards, and SLOs.
• Programming or scripting in Python, Go, Bash, or TypeScript.
• Experience with CI/CD systems and automated software delivery practices.
• Strong troubleshooting across Linux, networking, containers, cloud or on‑premise infrastructure, and distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate scalable Kubernetes‑based platform capabilities for development, test, and production workloads.
• Create reusable infrastructure‑as‑code modules and automated workflows using Terraform, Ansible, Helm, Kustomize, or equivalent tools.
• Develop and evolve platform observability: metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, alerting, SLOs.
• Improve platform reliability, capacity, security posture, and cost efficiency through automation.
• Build infrastructure to deploy AI/ML workloads, including model‑serving and GPU‑enabled compute.
• Enable self‑service for product teams via platform APIs, templates, and CI/CD integrations.
• Collaborate with security, infrastructure, and AI teams to define standards and remove bottlenecks.
• Investigate production issues, perform root cause analysis, and implement preventive improvements.
• Contribute to roadmaps, architecture reviews, and engineering standards.

Skills

Kubernetes

Python

Go

CI/CD

Linux

Communication

Education

Bachelors in CS/Engineering

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Helm

Kustomize

Argo CD

Flux

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) is seeking a hands-on Platform Engineer in San Jose to design, build, and operate a scalable internal platform.

You will work across Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability, and AI/ML workloads to provide a reliable, secure developer experience. The ideal candidate has 6+ years in platform engineering or related fields, strong Kubernetes ops skills, and hands‑on experience with Terraform, Argo CD, Prometheus, Grafana, and open source tooling.