Senior Site Reliability Engineer

The Cypress Group; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-friendly

Flexible hours

High-impact ownership

Collaborative culture

Job summary

The Cypress Group is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to design, evolve, and scale a Kubernetes-based infrastructure platform that supports mission-critical applications and engineering teams. You will focus on platform reliability, automation, and developer productivity using cloud-native technologies and DevOps best practices.

The ideal candidate has strong Kubernetes expertise, hands-on Golang development experience, and a deep understanding of distributed systems, observability, and

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience operating Kubernetes environments in production.
• Deep knowledge of Kubernetes architecture, APIs, control plane and nodes.
• Experience implementing GitOps with Argo CD or Flux.
• Building automation and infrastructure tooling using modern platforms.
• Proficiency with Helm packaging for Kubernetes applications.
• Design and implement CI/CD pipelines and deployment strategies.
• Strong Linux systems and networking knowledge.
• Experience with ingress, proxies, or service networking.
• Experience with observability using Prometheus or similar tooling.
• Experience with centralized logging and operational visibility platforms.

Responsibilities

• Design, maintain, and scale highly available Kubernetes-based infrastructure.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver platform solutions.
• Enhance automation tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and GitOps workflows.
• Extend open-source platform components in Golang and tooling.
• Contribute fixes and integrations to internal platform tooling.
• Support zero-downtime deployments, upgrades, and migrations.
• Improve cluster observability, monitoring, and alerting.
• Automate issue detection and remediation workflows.
• Assist application teams onboarding workloads to Kubernetes.
• Modernize legacy apps for containerized deployment.

Skills

Kubernetes operations

Kubernetes architecture

GitOps (Argo CD/Flux)

Automation tooling

Helm

CI/CD pipelines

Linux networking

Ingress/Proxy

Prometheus/Observability

Logging/Monitoring

Tools

Argo CD

Flux

Helm

Kubernetes

CI/CD tooling

Prometheus

Job description

We are seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to help evolve and scale a modern Kubernetes-based infrastructure platform supporting mission-critical applications and engineering teams. This role is focused on platform reliability, automation, infrastructure engineering, and improving developer productivity through cloud-native technologies and DevOps best practices.

The ideal candidate has strong Kubernetes expertise, hands-on Golang development experience, and a deep understanding of distributed systems, infrastructure automation, observability, and production operations.

This is a remote-friendly role with flexible hours, provided there is overlap with Eastern Time business hours.

Responsibilities

• Design, maintain, and improve highly available Kubernetes-based infrastructure platforms
• Partner with development, SRE, networking, and infrastructure teams to gather requirements and deliver scalable platform solutions
• Build and enhance automation tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and GitOps workflows
• Customize and extend open-source platform components written in Golang
• Contribute fixes, enhancements, and integrations to internally maintained platform tooling
• Support zero-downtime deployments, upgrades, and platform migrations
• Improve cluster observability, monitoring, logging, and alerting capabilities
• Automate issue detection, remediation, and operational workflows
• Assist application teams with onboarding workloads into Kubernetes environments
• Help modernize legacy applications for containerized deployment architectures
• Evaluate and test emerging platform technologies and infrastructure tooling

Required Qualifications

• Strong production experience operating Kubernetes environments
• Deep understanding of Kubernetes architecture, APIs, control plane, and node operations
• Experience implementing GitOps workflows using tools such as Argo CD or Flux
• Experience building automation and infrastructure tooling
• Experience with Helm and Kubernetes application packaging
• Experience with CI/CD pipeline design and implementation
• Strong Linux systems and networking knowledge
• Experience with ingress, reverse proxies, or service networking technologies
• Experience implementing monitoring and observability using Prometheus or similar tooling
• Experience with centralized logging and operational visibility platforms
• Strong troubleshooting and production incident response skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience contributing to or modifying open-source infrastructure tooling
• Experience with Kubernetes networking and traffic management concepts
• Familiarity with cloud-native infrastructure patterns and distributed systems
• Experience with highly available infrastructure deployments
• Experience with persistent storage orchestration in containerized environments
• Familiarity with cloud providers or hybrid infrastructure environments
• Experience supporting developer enablement and platform engineering initiatives

Additional Information

• Remote-first engineering environment
• High-impact infrastructure and platform ownership
• Collaborative engineering culture with strong automation focus
• Opportunity to influence platform architecture and engineering standards