Senior Kubernetes Platform Engineer

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JTSAvP1ag=Job Code: JPC - 26020

Location:

Milpitas, CA, 95035, United States

Job Title:

Senior Kubernetes Platform Engineer / Architect

Location:

Milpitas, CAExperience

Required:

10-15+ Years Overall IT

Experience with 5+ Years of Hands-on Kubernetes Platform Engineering

Position Overview Seeking an experienced Kubernetes Platform Engineer / Architect to design, build, automate, and support enterprise-grade container platforms that power business-critical applications across global environments. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in Kubernetes, container orchestration, cloud-native technologies, platform engineering, automation, observability, and Dev Ops practices.

This role will be responsible for developing a scalable, secure, and highly available Kubernetes ecosystem that enables application teams to rapidly deploy, manage, and modernize workloads. The candidate will work closely with cloud teams, infrastructure teams, application development teams, security teams, and SRE teams to deliver a robust cloud-native platform.

Key Responsibilities Kubernetes Platform Architecture Design and implement enterprise Kubernetes platforms across cloud and hybrid environments.

Define platform standards, governance controls, and architectural best practices.

Build scalable, resilient, and highly available Kubernetes clusters.

Develop container platform roadmaps aligned with cloud strategy.

Establish multi-cluster and multi-region Kubernetes architectures.

Support application modernization and cloud-native transformation initiatives.

Kubernetes Administration & Operations Deploy, upgrade, patch, and manage Kubernetes clusters.

Perform cluster lifecycle management and capacity planning.

Optimize cluster performance, resource utilization, and availability.

Configure name spaces, RBAC, network policies, storage classes, and quota management.

Troubleshoot complex platform, networking, storage, and container issues.

Ensure platform reliability and operational excellence.

Containerization & Cloud-Native Solutions Design and implement containerized application environments.

Support Docker and OCI-compliant container technologies.

Develop best practices for:
Container security

Container lifecycle management

Image management

Registry management

Enable microservices architecture adoption.

Support modern cloud-native application deployments.

Platform Automation Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Git Ops practices.

Automate Kubernetes provisioning and configuration management.

Develop reusable deployment templates and platform services.

Build self-service capabilities for development teams.

Automate platform monitoring, compliance, and operational processes.

Tools:

Terraform Ansible Helm Argo CDFluxCDGitHub Actions Azure Dev Ops Dev Ops  & CI/CD Enablement Design and support CI/CD pipelines for Kubernetes workloads.

Integrate Kubernetes with enterprise Dev Ops tool chains.

Support continuous deployment and release automation.

Improve deployment speed, reliability, and application availability.

Establish standardized deployment frameworks.

Platforms:

Azure Dev Ops Git Hub  Enterprise Jenkins Git Lab  CI/CDKubernetes Security Implement Kubernetes security best practices and governance controls.

Configure and manage: RBACPod Security Standards Network Policies Secrets Management Service Mesh Security Integrate security scanning into CI/CD pipelines.

Support Zero Trust architecture initiatives.

Conduct platform security assessments and remediation activities.

Security Technologies:

Hashi Corp Vault Aqua Security Prisma Cloud Microsoft Defender for Containers Trivy Falco Service  Mesh & Traffic Management Design and support service mesh implementations.

Configure traffic routing, ingress controllers, and API gateways.

Implement secure service-to-service communication.

Enable application observability and resilience patterns.

Technologies:

Istio

LinkerdNGINX Ingress Kong Ambassador Monitoring  & Observability Build enterprise observability solutions for Kubernetes platforms.

Implement centralized logging, monitoring, and alerting.

Define SLOs, SLIs, and platform health metrics.

Support Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices.

Monitoring Tools:

Prometheus

GrafanaELK Stack Open Telemetry Datadog Splunk Dynatrace Cloud  Platform Integration Integrate Kubernetes with public cloud platforms.

Design and manage managed Kubernetes services.

Cloud Platforms:

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Amazon EKSGoogle GKEPreferred expertise in AKS due to Azure cloud strategy.

Leadership &…