Senior Container Platform Engineer

Job summary

The Senior Container Platform Engineer role involves designing, automating, and managing secure, scalable Kubernetes-based platforms across various environments. Key responsibilities include implementing secure networking, automating operations with Terraform and Ansible, and developing CI/CD practices using Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions to enhance developer experience and platform reliability.

Qualifications

• Experience in infrastructure, cloud, platform, or systems engineering in an enterprise environment.
• Hands-on Kubernetes and container platform engineering experience.
• Practical knowledge of Kubernetes, container runtimes, Helm, and container orchestration.
• Experience with AKS, EKS, OpenShift, Rancher, Tanzu, or similar platforms.
• Good understanding of Kubernetes networking, ingress, service discovery, load balancing, network policies, and cluster security.
• Experience with Azure and AWS cloud services, networking, identity, and hybrid connectivity.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform, Ansible, Python, Git, REST APIs, and Infrastructure as Code.
• Experience with CI/CD, DevOps practices, and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, Datadog, or similar.
• Excellent written and spoken English.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain enterprise container platforms using Kubernetes and related ecosystem tools.
• Define standards for cluster architecture, multi-tenancy, workload isolation, upgrades, capacity, and lifecycle management.
• Implement secure networking, ingress, load balancing, service mesh, DNS, certificate management, and traffic management.
• Build hybrid connectivity across container platforms, cloud services, and on-premises environments.
• Apply Kubernetes security controls, including RBAC, network policies, secrets management, image security, policy enforcement, and Zero Trust principles.
• Automate provisioning and operations using Terraform, Ansible, Python, Git, REST APIs, and Infrastructure as Code.
• Develop CI/CD and GitOps practices using tools such as Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Argo CD, or Flux.
• Provide Level 3 support for complex incidents, including root cause analysis and problem management.
• Manage upgrades, patching, backup and recovery, disaster recovery, and capacity planning.
• Create documentation, reusable templates, engineering standards, and operational runbooks.

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Relocation