Lead Platform Engineer - Cloud Foundry & Kubernetes

Job summary

The Senior Platform Engineer builds, upgrades, and operates large-scale Cloud Foundry foundations, improving automation, reliability, security, and resilience in production environments. The role leads platform initiatives from planning through delivery, modernizes infrastructure as code and Concourse pipelines, coordinates high-risk changes across data centers, and expands Kubernetes platform engineering. Key technologies include Cloud Foundry, BOSH, Concourse, Terraform, Kubernetes, Linux, and Go, Python, or shell scripting.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience installing, upgrading, and troubleshooting Cloud Foundry foundations at scale, including open-source Cloud Foundry or VMware Tanzu Application Service.
• Proficiency writing and debugging BOSH releases, manifests, and ops files.
• Proficiency building, maintaining, and operating Concourse pipelines.
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes workloads, clusters, and core concepts.
• Experience using Terraform for infrastructure as code.
• Strong programming skills in Go, Python, or shell scripting.
• Strong Linux troubleshooting skills.
• Experience delivering system design, automation, testing, and operational stability for production platforms.
• Ability to independently own design problems with minimal oversight.
• Experience mentoring engineers and improving team capability.
• Clear written and verbal communication, including explaining technical tradeoffs to non-team audiences.
• Preferred experience migrating teams or workloads from Cloud Foundry to Kubernetes.
• Preferred experience with Kubernetes ecosystem tools, operators, or GitOps.
• Preferred experience with PKI and certificate rotation for platform control planes.

Responsibilities

• Automate deployment, upgrades, and operations of Cloud Foundry foundations across multiple data centers.
• Lead technical initiatives from planning through delivery.
• Modernize infrastructure as code and pipelines to improve upgrade and promotion reliability.
• Coordinate platform changes, hardware refreshes, and capacity migrations with infrastructure providers.
• Plan and execute environment teardowns, rebuilds, and other high-risk changes with minimal disruption.
• Expand Kubernetes platform engineering and adapt Cloud Foundry operational practices for Kubernetes.
• Mentor junior engineers and interns through pairing, code review, and troubleshooting.
• Contribute to retrospectives and design discussions.
• Write secure production code and review others' code.
• Apply security, risk, and control standards to platform engineering work.

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