Senior Platform Reliability Engineer (Kubernetes & CI/CD)

Optomi; Orlando (FL); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Optomi, in partnership with a client, seeks a Senior Systems Reliability Engineer to design and automate enterprise platform infrastructure powering AI platforms and observability solutions. You will build scalable Kubernetes-based systems, standardize CI/CD pipelines, and enable self-service platform capabilities across large-scale environments.

The ideal candidate has deep Kubernetes, cloud, Linux administration, automation, and platform engineering experience, plus leadership to influence

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Systems Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or DevOps within large enterprise environments.
• Deep expertise managing and supporting production Kubernetes environments, including monitoring, capacity planning, performance tuning, and high availability.
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, OpenTofu, AWS CDK, Ansible, or similar automation frameworks.
• Hands-on experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar tools.
• Strong Linux systems administration experience, including performance monitoring, troubleshooting, configuration management, and automation.
• Experience developing reusable platform services, internal developer tools, shared libraries, or self-service infrastructure modules consumed across engineering teams.
• Experience utilizing AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or AWS Bedrock to improve development, automation, and documentation workflows.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and support highly available platform infrastructure across cloud and on-premises environments with a focus on reliability, scalability, and operational excellence.
• Manage and optimize Kubernetes clusters through monitoring, capacity planning, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and automation.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code solutions using Terraform and other automation frameworks to standardize infrastructure deployments.
• Design, build, and maintain reusable CI/CD pipeline components, deployment templates, and developer tooling to improve engineering productivity.
• Partner with software engineering, platform, and infrastructure teams to automate operational processes and enhance platform capabilities.
• Implement monitoring, logging, telemetry, and observability solutions to proactively identify performance issues and improve system health.
• Create technical documentation, platform standards, and engineering best practices while serving as a technical leader across cross-functional teams.

Skills

Platform engineering

Automation

Observability

Technical leadership

AI-assisted development

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

OpenTofu

AWS CDK

Ansible

GitLab CI/CD

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Job description

Optomi, in partnership with a client, seeks a Senior Systems Reliability Engineer to design and automate enterprise platform infrastructure powering AI platforms and observability solutions. You will build scalable Kubernetes-based systems, standardize CI/CD pipelines, and enable self-service platform capabilities across large-scale environments.

The ideal candidate has deep Kubernetes, cloud, Linux administration, automation, and platform engineering experience, plus leadership to influence