Staff Platform Engineer — Cloud-Native Platform Lead

HonorVet Technologies; Kirkland (WA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

HonorVet Technologies seeks a Staff Platform Engineer to own the strategy and execution of enterprise developer platforms, including GitLab and Artifactory supporting 3,000+ users. You will guide cloud-native transformations and establish technical direction for platform engineering.

You will mentor teams, drive multi-region HA deployments, and shape standards for observability, security, and automation across the mission-critical stack.

Qualifications

• BS in computer science or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years operating and architecting enterprise-scale platforms.
• 5+ years of self-managed GitLab experience, including Geo, high availability, and disaster recovery.
• 5+ years of Artifactory experience, including Hub/Edge, federation, and enterprise deployments.
• 3+ years of deep Kubernetes experience, including operators, CRDs, service mesh, and multi-cluster environments.
• 7+ years of expert Linux experience, including kernel, networking, and performance tuning.
• PostgreSQL high availability experience, such as Patroni, and advanced networking knowledge, including BGP, anycast, and zero-trust architectures

Responsibilities

• Own operational strategy and technical direction for GitLab and Artifactory platforms.
• Lead cloud-native transformations, Kubernetes migrations, and GitOps adoption.
• Drive architecture for multi-region high-availability deployments and active-active patterns.
• Design self-healing systems with automated remediation and chaos engineering practices.
• Establish cloud-native best practices, including 12-factor apps, containerization, and observability.
• Mentor team members on automation patterns and cloud-native architectures.
• Influence organizational standards for platform engineering and developer experience.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, including AI-assisted operations, eBPF, and service mesh.
• Define and track SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs with a continuous improvement focus.

Skills

GitLab

Artifactory

Kubernetes

Linux

PostgreSQL HA

Networking

Cloud Platforms

Python

Go

Terraform

ArgoCD

Istio

Prometheus

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience

Tools

ArgoCD

Flux

Terraform

Istio

Prometheus

Docker

Job description

HonorVet Technologies seeks a Staff Platform Engineer to own the strategy and execution of enterprise developer platforms, including GitLab and Artifactory supporting 3,000+ users. You will guide cloud-native transformations and establish technical direction for platform engineering.

You will mentor teams, drive multi-region HA deployments, and shape standards for observability, security, and automation across the mission-critical stack.