Senior Kubernetes Platform Engineer (On-Prem & Cloud)

Silicon Laboratories Inc.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 125,000 - 231,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Great medical plan

Dental and vision plans

401k with match

Equity rewards (RSUs)

Flexible PTO

Volunteer days

Job summary

Silicon Labs in Austin, Texas is seeking a motivated Sr. Kubernetes Platform Engineer to define, build, operate, and lifecycle-manage infrastructure and platforms for scale. This role spans on-premises and cloud, with responsibilities across Kubernetes, CI/CD, identity, observability, cost, and developer enablement.

Collaboration with software and IT teams is essential. The ideal candidate has hands-on CNCF/open-source infrastructure experience in production, including upgrades, automation, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in technology or related training.
• 5+ years in software development, DevOps, Kubernetes or cloud-native platforms.
• Hybrid infra lifecycle experience across on-prem and cloud with automation.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate to build, operate, and improve Kubernetes-based platforms.
• Own CNCF/open-source platforms in production with automation and upgrades.
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows.
• Enhance developer experience and reduce rollout friction through automation.
• Support security, identity, policy automation, and observability.

Skills

Kubernetes platforms

Cloud platforms

CI/CD

Open-source stewardship

SRE / DevOps

Go / Python programming

Education

Bachelor's degree in technology-related field

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

GitHub Actions

Argo CD

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Talos Linux

Cilium

Job description

Silicon Labs in Austin, Texas is seeking a motivated Sr. Kubernetes Platform Engineer to define, build, operate, and lifecycle-manage infrastructure and platforms for scale. This role spans on-premises and cloud, with responsibilities across Kubernetes, CI/CD, identity, observability, cost, and developer enablement.

Collaboration with software and IT teams is essential. The ideal candidate has hands-on CNCF/open-source infrastructure experience in production, including upgrades, automation, and