Senior On-Prem Kubernetes Platform Engineer

Webstaurantstore; Lititz (Lancaster County); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

PTO

401(k) matching

Bonus opportunities

Job summary

WebstaurantStore, the leading online distributor of restaurant supplies and equipment, seeks a Senior Platform Engineer focused on on-prem Kubernetes. You will own bare-metal clusters, storage, networks, deployment pipelines, and observability, building scalable, reliable infrastructure in-house.

If cloud-centric expertise is your strength, explore other roles within WebstaurantStore; this role emphasizes on-prem Kubernetes mastery, incident response, and cross-team collaboration in a fast-paced

Qualifications

• 3+ years in a Platform Engineer, SRE, or adjacent role building/managing on-prem Kubernetes clusters.
• Thorough Kubernetes knowledge: Deployments, StatefulSets, DaemonSets, scheduling, resource management, health probes.
• Strong Helm: writing, reviewing, troubleshooting charts.
• Experience with Cilium for networking and network policy.
• Solid Linux and networking fundamentals: DNS, routing, TLS, HTTP, load balancing, firewalls.
• Structured troubleshooting with clear reasoning; observability with metrics/logs/dashboards (Grafana, Loki; OpenTelemetry a plus).
• Proficiency in Go and/or Python.
• Configuration management (Ansible, Terraform, etc.).
• Experience guiding technology selections in enterprise environments; Git usage; collaborative mindset.

Responsibilities

• Build and manage on-prem Kubernetes clusters and underlying infrastructure.
• Write and maintain Helm charts; promote best practices.
• Run GitOps deployments with Argo CD or similar tools (Flux, GitLab CD).
• Diagnose issues across pods, nodes, workloads, and network pathways.
• Configure cluster networking with Cilium; manage ingress controllers (HAProxy, NGINX, Traefik).
• Guide resources and health probes for workloads; select appropriate workload types.
• Investigate performance using metrics/logs/profiling; avoid rollbacks when possible.
• Develop dashboards/logs in Grafana/Loki; expand OpenTelemetry instrumentation.
• Manage secrets with HashiCorp Vault; research new platforms/tools for decisions.
• Participate in on-call rotation and post-incident reviews; respond to production incidents.

Skills

Platform engineering

Kubernetes

Helm

Cilium

Linux

Networking

Observability

Go

Python

Ansible

Terraform

Git

Tools

Argo CD

Flux

GitLab CD

HAProxy

NGINX

Traefik

Job description

WebstaurantStore, the leading online distributor of restaurant supplies and equipment, seeks a Senior Platform Engineer focused on on-prem Kubernetes. You will own bare-metal clusters, storage, networks, deployment pipelines, and observability, building scalable, reliable infrastructure in-house.

If cloud-centric expertise is your strength, explore other roles within WebstaurantStore; this role emphasizes on-prem Kubernetes mastery, incident response, and cross-team collaboration in a fast-paced