Senior Cloud Platform Engineer – Kubernetes & IAM

LinuxCareers; Torrance (CA); Presencial; USD 120.000 - 160.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Northwood is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer (Platform) to own and operate the cloud infrastructure stack, including Kubernetes clusters, IAM, and observability pipelines. You will collaborate directly with platform software engineers on a defined scope.

You will implement GitOps with CI gates, manage cloud networking (VPCs, VPNs, Direct Connect), and handle on-call incidents with a focus on reliability and security controls across multi-account environments.

Formación

• 2-7 years of production infrastructure experience in SRE, DevOps, platform, cloud, or systems engineering.
• Deep expertise in cloud platforms: multi-account organizations, IAM, VPC networking, EKS or equivalent managed Kubernetes.
• Strong infrastructure-as-code experience with state management, CI-driven plan and apply, and shared monorepo workflows.
• Working competence across Linux, networking fundamentals, containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and observability tooling.
• Demonstrated end-to-end ownership of production systems including design, implementation, and operation; on-call experience with measurable reliability outcomes.
• Proficiency in Python, Go, or similar languages for automation, tooling, and integration work.
• Strong technical writing skills for design documents, runbooks, and post-mortems.

Responsabilidades

• Own and operate all components of the cloud infrastructure stack: cloud accounts, hosted Kubernetes clusters, certificate authorities, secrets management, IAM, and observability pipelines
• Build and maintain infrastructure as code, implementing GitOps practices with proper CI gates for testing, auditing, and approving infrastructure changes
• Implement cloud networking including VPCs, transit route tables, VPNs, and Direct Connect attachments; partner with network engineering on cloud-to-site handoff
• Carry on-call responsibility for the cloud stack, resolve majority of incidents independently, and run post-incident reviews
• Partner with security and compliance teams on controls implementation including policies, IAM boundaries, logging coverage, and CVE mitigation

Conocimientos

SRE/DevOps experience

Cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)

Infrastructure as code

Linux administration

Kubernetes (EKS)

CI/CD pipelines

Observability tooling

Python/Go scripting

On-call incident response

Technical writing

Herramientas

Vault

Okta / IAM identity

ArgoCD

Grafana

Prometheus

Vector

Loki

Terraform / IaC tooling

EKS

Direct Connect / VPN

Descripción del empleo

Northwood is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer (Platform) to own and operate the cloud infrastructure stack, including Kubernetes clusters, IAM, and observability pipelines. You will collaborate directly with platform software engineers on a defined scope.

You will implement GitOps with CI gates, manage cloud networking (VPCs, VPNs, Direct Connect), and handle on-call incidents with a focus on reliability and security controls across multi-account environments.