SL Sr. Kubernetes Platform Engineer Silicon Labs · Austin · Platform & Infrastructure –11d ago

Silicon Labs (NASDAQ: SLAB) is the leading innovator in low-power wireless connectivity, building embedded technology that connects devices and improves lives. Merging cutting-edge technology into the world’s most highly integrated SoCs, Silicon Labs provides device makers the solutions, support, and ecosystems needed to create advanced edge connectivity applications. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Silicon Labs has operations in over 16 countries and is the trusted partner for innovative solutions in the smart home, industrial IoT, and smart cities markets.

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Silicon Labs in Austin, Texas is seeking a motivated Sr. Kubernetes Platform Engineer to help define, build, operate, and lifecycle-manage the infrastructure, tools, and platforms required for our organization to operate s role spans both on-premises and cloud environments, with responsibilities across Kubernetes platforms, CI/CD, identity, observability, cost management, and developer enablement. The ideal candidate has hands‑on experience owning CNCF and open-source infrastructure in production, including upgrades, troubleshooting, automation, and long‑term maintainability.

This is an engineering ownership role, not a support‑escalation role; success requires the ability to understand, operate, and improve the platforms we depend on while collaborating closely with software and IT teams and supporting AI/ML initiatives.

• Collaboration: Building productive relationships and generously sharing expertise via presentations and training sessions.
• Documentation: Creating and maintaining effective documentation and written communications.
• Automation
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  Enhancing team productivity by identifying opportunities to automate and eliminate waste in new and existing processes.
• Infrastructure Lifecycle Management: Designing, building, operating, upgrading, and retiring infrastructure across on‑premises and cloud environments, with attention to reliability, security, cost, maintainability, and developer productivity.
• Kubernetes Platform Ownership: Operating and evolving Kubernetes-based platforms and supporting technologies, including cluster lifecycle, networking, ingress, storage, policy, virtualization, secrets, identity, observability, and cost visibility.
• CNCF and Open-Source Stewardship: Owning and maintaining CNCF and open-source platforms in production, including troubleshooting, upgrades, automation, documentation, and internal enablement. Candidates should be comfortable operating systems where internal expertise is required rather than relying primarily on vendor support.
• Developer
  
  Experience:
  
  Improving software developer experience and productivity by reducing friction and automating testing and deployments.
• CI/CD Pipelines: Designing, developing, and maintaining CI/CD and Git Ops pipelines for software and infrastructure.
• Security, Identity, and Policy Automation: Supporting secure platform operations through policy enforcement, secrets management, workload identity, OIDC integrations, and automated governance.
• Observability: Building and operating observability platforms for metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, alerting, and service health using modern cloud-native tooling.
• AI/ML Integration: Working with software teams to support development and implementation of AI/ML infrastructure and services.
• Cost Efficiency: Reducing waste and cutting costs in cloud and Kubernetes infrastructure.

• Education: Bachelor's degree in a technology-related field or equivalent training.
• Experience: 5+ years in software development, Dev Ops, Kubernetes and Cloud-Native Platforms engineering, or a related field.
• Hybrid Infrastructure Lifecycle: Ex…