Senior Platform Engineer

Skyline Technology Solutions is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to lead the engineering, operation, and evolution of their on-premises Kubernetes and secrets management platforms. This hands-on technical role focuses on expanding Kubernetes capabilities and ensuring platform reliability while collaborating with various engineering teams.

Responsibilities:

• Architect, implement, operate, and scale Skyline’s on-premises Kubernetes platforms used to host shared services and application workloads across the organization
• Administer and improve Kubernetes cluster architecture, node lifecycle practices, platform reliability, and operational standards to support growth in workload scale and organizational dependence on the platform
• Lead the engineering and execution required to expand Kubernetes from its current footprint into a broader hosting model capable of supporting a significantly larger portion of Skyline’s server-based workloads
• Administer and enhance platform services related to PKI, certificate lifecycle management via Hashicorp Vault and Certmanager
• Design, implement, and maintain authentication and access patterns for platform and cluster services, including technologies such as OIDC, SAML, SCIM, OAuth2 Proxy, and related identity integrations
• Partner with engineering teams to guide the adoption of reliability and observability best practices
• Define and maintain operational standards for certificate issuance, renewal, trust distribution, and platform authentication services across shared environments
• Collaborate with Platform, Application, Security, and Infrastructure Engineering teams to ensure Kubernetes, PKI, and authentication services are embedded into architecture, operational workflows, and service delivery models
• Provide expert guidance on Kubernetes operations, workload placement, platform scalability, certificate management, authentication patterns, and production-readiness considerations
• Help guide internal adoption of platform services by translating technical platform capabilities into clear standards, operational practices, and engineering patterns for other divisions

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• 7+ years of experience in platform engineering, systems engineering, infrastructure engineering, DevOps, or SRE roles supporting production environments
• Proven hands-on experience administering and troubleshooting Linux systems in production, including RHEL, Ubuntu, or similar enterprise distributions
• Demonstrated experience designing, operating, and supporting Kubernetes platforms in production environments
• Strong experience with containerization and workload orchestration technologies, including Kubernetes and Docker or other OCI-compatible runtimes
• Experience with infrastructure automation and infrastructure-as-code using tools such as Ansible, Terraform, or equivalent frameworks
• Experience supporting PKI services, certificate lifecycle management, TLS configuration, and trust distribution in enterprise environments
• Familiarity with identity and authentication patterns for modern platforms, including OIDC, SAML, SSO integrations, OAuth-based access patterns, or related technologies
• Experience designing or supporting highly available, security-conscious, and operationally mature infrastructure services
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate across platform, application, security, and infrastructure teams and lead technical initiatives without direct authority
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to document standards, explain design decisions, and guide internal consumers of shared services