Remote Senior Platform Engineer, On-Prem Kubernetes

Webstaurantstore; Lititz (Lancaster County); Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

WebstaurantStore seeks a Senior Platform Engineer to own our on-prem Kubernetes platform, including bare-metal clusters, networking, storage, deployment pipelines, and observability.

You will write Helm charts, run GitOps deployments with Argo CD, diagnose issues, manage Cilium networking, ingress, and metrics dashboards with Grafana and Loki. Remote role within the US; strong Kubernetes, Linux, and Go/Python preferred.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in a Platform Engineer/SRE or adjacent role with hands-on on-prem Kubernetes experience.
• Thorough, hands-on Kubernetes knowledge including Deployments, StatefulSets, DaemonSets, resource management, and health probes.
• Strong Helm experience: writing, reviewing, and troubleshooting charts.
• Experience with Cilium for cluster networking and network policy.
• Solid Linux and networking fundamentals: DNS, routing, TLS, HTTP, load balancing, firewalls.
• Familiar with Go and/or Python; experience with Git and GitOps workflows.

Responsibilities

• Build, operate, and upgrade on-premises Kubernetes clusters and the infrastructure underneath them.
• Write and maintain Helm charts that are clean, reusable, and follow best practices.
• Run GitOps-driven deployments with Argo CD (or Flux/GitLab CD).
• Diagnose issues across pods, nodes, workloads, and the network, tracing traffic through the stack.
• Manage cluster networking with Cilium and configure ingress controllers (NGINX/HAProxy/Traefik).
• Help application teams set resource requests, limits, and health probes; choose workload types.
• Investigate performance regressions using metrics, logs, and profiling; avoid unnecessary rollbacks.
• Build dashboards and alerts with Grafana and Loki; expand OpenTelemetry instrumentation.
• Manage secrets with HashiCorp Vault; research new platforms and guide tech decisions.
• Respond to production incidents and participate in the on-call rotation.

Skills

Kubernetes

Helm

Argo CD

Git

Cilium

Hubble

Grafana

Loki

OpenTelemetry

Linux

Networking

DNS

TLS

HTTP

Load balancing

Firewalls

Go

Python

Ansible

Terraform

GitOps workflows

Tools

Argo CD

Flux

GitLab CD

Helm

Hubble

Vault

Grafana

Loki

OpenTelemetry

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

WebstaurantStore seeks a Senior Platform Engineer to own our on-prem Kubernetes platform, including bare-metal clusters, networking, storage, deployment pipelines, and observability.

You will write Helm charts, run GitOps deployments with Argo CD, diagnose issues, manage Cilium networking, ingress, and metrics dashboards with Grafana and Loki. Remote role within the US; strong Kubernetes, Linux, and Go/Python preferred.