Senior Kubernetes Platform Engineer

Job summary

Establish and continuously improve a secure, reliable Kubernetes platform for governed enterprise AI workloads across cloud and on-premises environments. Lead platform design and lifecycle management, GitOps automation, security controls, observability, and operational readiness using Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, Argo CD or Flux, and cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree
• At least 10 years of experience
• Experience building and evolving production Kubernetes platforms across cloud, on-premises, or hybrid environments
• Experience operating Kubernetes at scale, including reliability, security, and lifecycle management
• Strong Linux, cluster networking, and storage architecture expertise
• Production experience with infrastructure as code and release automation, including Terraform and Helm
• Experience with GitOps tools such as Argo CD or Flux
• Hands-on Kubernetes security experience with RBAC, network policies, secrets and key management, policy enforcement, and cluster hardening

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and manage highly available Kubernetes platforms across hybrid environments
• Establish secure multi-tenant platform standards
• Automate provisioning, upgrades, patching, scaling, and decommissioning through GitOps
• Implement platform security and compliance controls for policy, identity, secrets, and workload protection
• Build observability capabilities to support issue detection, incident response, and reliability management
• Resolve complex networking, storage, and runtime issues and drive architectural improvements
• Establish the Kubernetes foundation for enterprise AI workloads across cloud and on-premises environments
• Define platform support expectations, reliability priorities, and operating practices

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Industry

Relocation