SRE Platform Engineer

Role Overview

• Provision & Infrastructure Hardening Kubernetes Cluster Orchestration: Help design and deploy hardened EKS clusters across multiple AWS regions, ensuring consistent security baselines.
• Build and maintain reusable Terraform and Ansible modules for automated provisioning of cloud infrastructure services including networking services, compute, storage, queue and cache, etc.
• Implement "Policy as Code" guardrails and secure network perimeters (ESPs) in alignment with NERC CIP and IEC 62443 standards.
• Standardize run books, operating processes required to run critical infrastructure with highest reliability.
• Define and enforce Kubernetes resource quotas, limit ranges, and Pod Priority classes to ensure mission-critical services receive prioritized compute resources.
• Manage the ingress strategy and service mesh architecture to facilitate secure, performant connectivity between distributed micro services.
• Lead platform-level smoke, load testing and disaster recovery exercises to validate that the infrastructure can meet 99.99% uptime targets.
• Partner with application teams to right-size containerized workloads, optimizing for both performance and cloud cost (FinOps).
• Act as the highest technical escalation point for complex Kubernetes internals, troubleshooting issues such as failed pods, memory leaks, and network partitions.
• Lead root cause analysis (RCA) for platform-level outages, implementing systemic fixes to prevent recurring failures.
• Proactively identify and automate repetitive operational tasks—such as cluster upgrades and OS patching—to ensure the team spends at least 50% of their time on engineering improvements.
• Institutionalize platform monitoring using Prometheus and Grafana, creating dashboards that surface the "Golden Signals" of cluster health.

Requirements

• 5 years of experience operating production-grade Kubernetes clusters at scale.
• Expert-level knowledge of multi-cluster management, performance tuning and experience implementing observability tools such as Prometheus/Grafana, Dynatrace, Splunk, Datadog, etc.
• Deep hands-on experience with AWS core services (EKS, EC2, ALB, S3, RDS, MSK).
• Proficiency in Terraform, Ansible, and Python or Go for infrastructure automation and deployment tools like ArgoCD or Flux.
• Strong understanding and hands on experience of cloud networking concepts such as VPCs, routing, load balancing and security configurations such as encryption, certificate management.
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or “STEM” Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) with advanced experience.
• 6–8 years in SRE or Platform Engineering roles supporting mission-critical, 24/7 cloud environments.
• Proven track record as a structured incident responder who can handle production down/break the glass scenarios in mission critical applications.
• Practical knowledge of NERC CIP, SOC2, ISO 27001, or IEC 62443 compliance standards in a SaaS context.
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional, CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator), or SRE Practitioner Certification.
• Experience supporting mission-critical systems in energy, utilities, or other high-stakes industrial sectors.
• Ability to work with global teams, act independently and as part of a team.

Tech Stack

• Ansible
• AWS
• Cloud
• EC2
• Flux
• Grafana
• Kubernetes
• Prometheus
• Python
• Splunk
• Terraform
• Go

Benefits

• Relocation Assistance Provided