Senior Cloud Platform Engineer II - Scale & Observability

HITEC; City of Poughkeepsie, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

Dental & vision coverage

Mental health & wellbeing programs

Paid time off & parental leave

Job summary

IBM Software is seeking a skilled infrastructure engineer to design, build, and maintain Go-based services and Kubernetes operators that power Confluent Cloud infrastructure. You will own secure, scalable, observable systems using GitOps and Terraform, collaborating across teams to enable rapid, reliable deployments.

You will work on systems at scale, across regions, focusing on availability, performance, and proactive incident response.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in CS, EE, or related field.
• Strong programming skills in Go, Java, or Python and ability to read, debug, and evolve existing code.
• Hands-on Kubernetes in production and cloud-native ecosystems (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Experience with automation and reliability practices—GitOps, Terraform, CI/CD, observability—
• Ability to operate independently in a distributed team.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and evolve internal infrastructure services written in Go, often as Kubernetes operators, powering the core platform.
• Own systems that are secure, scalable, observable, and reliable using GitOps, Terraform, Prometheus, Grafana, and strong Linux/networking knowledge.
• Collaborate with engineers to enable fast, safe, autonomous deployment of services through shared tooling and best practices.
• Take shared responsibility for the full lifecycle of our infrastructure: availability, performance, monitoring, incident response, capacity planning.
• Work on systems at scale across tens of thousands of instances and multiple regions, focusing on smooth, fast, safe operations.
• Influence architecture and operational strategy behind the critical infrastructure supporting all cloud services.
• Participate in an 8-hour, follow-the-sun on-call rotation.

Skills

Go

Java

Python

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms

GitOps

Terraform

CI/CD

Linux

Networking

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

Terraform

Prometheus

Grafana

CI/CD tools

Job description

IBM Software is seeking a skilled infrastructure engineer to design, build, and maintain Go-based services and Kubernetes operators that power Confluent Cloud infrastructure. You will own secure, scalable, observable systems using GitOps and Terraform, collaborating across teams to enable rapid, reliable deployments.

You will work on systems at scale, across regions, focusing on availability, performance, and proactive incident response.