Principal Platform Engineer, Kubernetes

Role Overview

• Serve as the technical lead and owner for the Compute platform (On Prem and EKS)
• Responsible for the deployment of containerized applications across a cluster of bare-metal servers using ansible, terraform etc.
• Facilitate automatic scaling of containerized applications based on demand.
• Manage utilization of compute resources such as CPU, memory, and storage across the cluster.
• Implement monitoring solutions (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana) to track the health and performance of bare metal clusters and infrastructure components.
• Set up alerting mechanisms to detect and respond to issues proactively.
• Recover from failures by restarting failed containers or reallocating workloads to healthy nodes.
• Work closely with development and engineering teams to establish CI/CD pipelines for automating the deployment and rollout of Kubernetes services.
• Support seamless rolling updates allowing new versions to be deployed gradually while maintaining application availability.
• Identify performance bottlenecks in containerized environments and optimize resource utilization through capacity planning, auto-scaling, and performance tuning.
• Document processes, procedures, and best practices related to the platform operations and share knowledge with team members.
• Partner with SREs to define platform SLAs, uptime targets, resilience benchmarks, and alerting/monitoring.
• Lead incident response and root cause analysis, automating recovery workflows and improving platform resiliency.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field, or equivalent experience, typically 12 years in a DevOps or Systems Engineering role.
• Familiarity with containerized technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes etc.
• Experience implementing continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) tools and systems.
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Java, Shell scripting (Bash).
• Automation scripting with tools such as Ansible playbooks.
• Deploying infrastructure via Terraform
• Strong understanding of networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, DNS, IPv4/IPv6 networking, Load Balancing, and protocols.
• Familiarity with CNCF ecosystem tools and emerging trends in platform engineering.
• Experience designing, building, deploying, and maintaining infrastructure, including Kubernetes clusters.
• Experience upgrading Kubernetes clusters with no to minimal downtime.
• Experience configuring service mesh, network policy controls, and multi-tenancy in Kubernetes.
• Strong Kubernetes, cloud native, containerization expertise in a hybrid-cloud enterprise environment and as a solution architect.
• Strong Spark skills.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to effectively communicate complex technical information.
• Strong written communication skills are essential, as well as the ability to create clear and informative documentation.
• Ability to work effectively across internal and external organizations.
• Flexibility to work off-hours for on-call duties.
• Relevant certifications, such as Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

Tech Stack

• Ansible
• Cloud
• DNS
• Docker
• Grafana
• Java
• Kubernetes
• Prometheus
• Python
• Shell Scripting
• Spark
• TCP/IP
• Terraform

Benefits

• Best-in-class Benefits
• Expert guidance and always-on tools personalized to meet support needs