Senior Kubernetes Platform Engineer – Reliability

Hewlett Packard Enterprise; Durham (NC); Hybrid; USD 157,000 - 361,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & wellbeing

Professional development

Inclusive culture

Job summary

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is seeking a Principal Platform Engineer specializing in Kubernetes reliability and distributed systems to evolve and operate the Object Storage platform. This hybrid role requires collaboration across teams and hands‑on leadership to improve availability, resilience, and observability.

You will own complex platform challenges, drive architectural decisions, and mentor engineers while coordinating with security, networking, and infra teams.

Qualifications

• Significant experience designing, building, and operating production Kubernetes platforms.
• Deep understanding of Kubernetes architecture, control‑plane and node components.
• Strong knowledge of high availability and failure‑recovery patterns for distributed systems.
• Experience troubleshooting complex production failures involving Kubernetes, networking, and storage.

Responsibilities

• Serve as senior technical authority for Kubernetes platform architecture and reliability.
• Own investigations of complex issues including pod failover, service timeouts, and load balancing.
• Define improvements to high availability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery strategies.
• Lead architecture, design, and implementation of platform improvements across multiple teams.
• Develop repeatable approaches for diagnosing failures across apps, Kubernetes, networking, and infra.

Skills

Kubernetes

Distributed systems

Go/Python/Bash

Observability

Incident response

Tools

Kubernetes distributions (EKS/AKS/GKE)

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is seeking a Principal Platform Engineer specializing in Kubernetes reliability and distributed systems to evolve and operate the Object Storage platform. This hybrid role requires collaboration across teams and hands‑on leadership to improve availability, resilience, and observability.

You will own complex platform challenges, drive architectural decisions, and mentor engineers while coordinating with security, networking, and infra teams.