Senior Platform Engineer

Job summary

As a Senior Platform Engineer at vCluster Labs, you will be crucial to enabling engineering velocity by building internal platforms and acting as "Customer Zero" for their products. You will manage multi-cloud infrastructure, optimize CI/CD pipelines, and architect internal services, providing critical feedback to product teams. This role offers a unique opportunity to use vCluster to create cutting-edge internal services and shape the future of their software.

Benefits

Qualifications

• 5+ years of Platform Engineering or DevOps experience with modern, cloud-native technologies
• Expert in HCL and Terraform Modules
• Deep experience administering Kubernetes clusters
• Extensive experience with GitHub Pipelines
• Ability to optimize GitHub Pipelines for speed and security
• Hands-on experience managing and deploying in public clouds, specifically AWS or GCP
• Thrive in environments that reject legacy technology
• Desire to work with a modern stack and solve a variety of problems
• Experience writing automation scripts with Bash or Python (bonus)
• Proficiency in Go or Python (bonus)
• Relevant Kubernetes certifications such as CKA or experience writing Kubernetes Operators (bonus)
• Basic experience writing technical documentation and willingness to build AI Automation in documentation (bonus)
• Familiarity with Linear for task management (bonus)

Responsibilities

• Own and improve multi-cloud infrastructure across AWS, GCP, and Digital Ocean
• Manage Kubernetes clusters
• Handle patching
• Manage access
• Enhance tooling with robust alerts and metrics
• Drive improvement of GitHub CI pipelines
• Create secure, repeatable testing environments
• Automate pipeline updates to streamline developer experience
• Architect and host infrastructure for engineering development, including internal services and vCluster-specific platforms
• Empower engineers to build pipelines securely through education and tooling
• Act as the first and most critical user of products
• Push vCluster features to their limits to create useful internal tools
• Discover bugs and provide feedback to Engineering to shape future software
• Automate updates and manage infrastructure as code using Terraform Spacelift
• Enable the team to create infrastructure on demand, ensuring scalability and consistency
• Manage Kanban tasks via Linear, including improving observability, handling GitHub policy requests, release engineering, and access management

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Work schedule

Relocation