Senior Cloud Native Platform Engineer

Responsibilities

We are representing a confidential cloud infrastructure organization seeking a Senior Cloud Native Platform Engineer to join their growing team. In this role, you will:

• Build and improve shared cloud-native platform capabilities used by internal engineering teams to run applications and services
• Own significant parts of the platform area, including Kubernetes cluster operations, workload runtime configuration, deployment workflows, observability foundations, and environment automation
• Improve the reliability, scalability, and supportability of platform services through practical engineering and operational enhancements
• Develop automation, tooling, and configuration that reduce manual effort, improve consistency, and make the platform easier to use and operate
• Apply software engineering to create leverage through scripts, services, CI/CD automation, operational tooling, and platform integrations
• Improve incident prevention, detection, response, and recovery across the platform areas you support
• Build and refine observability for platform services, including metrics, logs, tracing, dashboards, and alerts
• Strengthen rollout safety, capacity awareness, failure handling, and recovery procedures for production environments
• Debug and resolve complex issues spanning Kubernetes, Linux, networking, storage, workload runtime behaviour, and infrastructure dependencies
• Enhance operational playbooks, runbooks, and engineering practices to reduce toil and increase service resilience
• Contribute to design discussions, code reviews, and operational standards within the platform engineering team
• Collaborate with software engineering, infrastructure, and SRE teams to deliver practical, supportable platform capabilities
• Define sensible defaults and supportable patterns for service deployment and runtime operations
• Mentor less experienced engineers in platform engineering fundamentals, operational judgement, and automation practices

What We're Looking For

Our client is seeking a senior-level engineer with:

• Strong hands-on experience operating and improving Kubernetes-based platforms in production
• Solid experience with infrastructure automation, CI/CD, configuration management, or GitOps-style workflows
• Strong understanding of reliability engineering principles, including observability, incident response, failure analysis, and operational readiness
• Experience writing production-quality automation, tooling, or backend code in Go, Python, Bash, or similar languages
• Good Linux fundamentals, including processes, filesystems, cgroups, service behaviour, and system debugging
• Good networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, DNS, routing, load balancing, and container or overlay networking concepts
• Experience debugging complex production issues across multiple system layers
• Ability to work independently on substantial technical problems while collaborating effectively with adjacent teams
• Experience mentoring or supporting less experienced engineers through practical technical guidance

How We Work With You

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Pay

Compensation details will be discussed during the screening process with our recruiting team.

Equal Opportunity

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