Senior Platform Engineer

Boardroom Appointments; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Kubernetes Engineer, where you'll work within a dynamic platform engineering squad to enhance cloud-native architecture. Your expertise will drive innovation across multiple enterprise customers, implementing cutting-edge features and capabilities. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver top-notch solutions while documenting processes for knowledge sharing. If you're passionate about automating processes and enjoy remote teamwork, this is the perfect opportunity to showcase your skills in a thriving environment.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience with Kubernetes in production environments.
• Experience with OpenShift or other Kubernetes flavors preferred.

Responsibilities

• Drive innovation in cloud-native platform architecture.
• Collaborate with teams to develop appropriate solutions.

Skills

Kubernetes

OpenShift

CI/CD Pipelines

GitOps

Containerization

Microservices Architecture

Problem Solving

Remote Communication

Tools

GitLab

GitHub

Jenkins

ArgoCD

Prometheus

Grafana

Elastic

Job description

Work within an existing platform engineering squad to deliver a next-level platform experience for multiple product teams running business critical services Drive innovation and evolve and lead cloud native platform architecture, implementing new features and capabilities across multiple enterprise customers Collaborate with cross-functional customer teams to understand project requirements and develop appropriate solutions. Implement best practices for containerization, orchestration, and microservices architecture. Provide technical expertise and guidance to ensure only the best Kubernetes platform experiences are delivered to consuming teams Document solutions, processes, and procedures for knowledge sharing.

Skills Requirements:

• Extensive Kubernetes and experience, architecting, implementing and operationalising Kubernetes in production environments
• Preference given to fluency with the OpenShift ecosystem, but proven experience across other Kubernetes flavours will be accepted
• Experience in building CI pipelines, containerizing, securing and deploying applications and GitOps based continuous delivery
• Passion for automating away toil and building mature cloud native platforms
• Great communicator, enjoy working remotely within a team and solving complex problem

Experience:

• Kubernetes (4+ years of experience), across any of the following: OpenShift Rancher Tanzu AKS EKS GKE
• Preference for experience with any of the following technologies GitLab GitHub / Actions Jenkins ArgoCD Flux Prometheus/Grafana Elastic

Certifications:

• Were not super sticky on these. Real world, production experience trumps all:
• OpenShift Administrator
• Red Hat Certified
• OpenShift Application Developer
• SUSE Certified Deployment Specialist in Rancher
• VMware Certified Professional - Application Modernization