Platform Engineering Expert
Indexed description
The Platform Engineer Expert will design, optimize, and maintain cloud-native infrastructure and developer platforms with a strong focus onreliability, scalability, and security. The role is hands-on and ideal for someone who thrives on solving deep technical challenges and improving systems at scale.
Key Responsibilities
- Act as thetechnical reference pointfor complex platform issues and architecture decisions.
- Design, implement, and optimize infrastructure architectures for reliability and performance.
- Lead major upgrades, migrations, and automation initiatives.
- Own and enhance Infrastructure-as-Code modules (Terraform, Ansible, Helm).
- Implement and enforcesecrets management, SSL/TLS, and IAMstandards.
- Drive observability and performance improvements across clusters and services.
- Automate platform operations through scripting (Bash, or Go).
- Collaborate with security, architecture, and development teams to align standards.
- Conduct peer reviews and mentor engineers in best practices.
- Support incident investigations, root-cause analysis, and resilience testing.
- 6–8 yearsof experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, or Infrastructure roles.
- Deep expertise inLinux,Kubernetes, andInfrastructure-as-Code(Terraform, Ansible, Helm).
- Strong understanding ofcloud infrastructure(compute, networking, storage, IAM).
- Experience inCI/CD pipeline management(GitLab).
- Advanced scripting ability inBash, plus working knowledge inGo.
- Proven knowledge ofsecrets management and security best practices(Vault, SSL/TLS, IAM).
- Hands-on experience withobservability tools(Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, ELK).
- Strong problem-solving, analytical, and debugging skills.
- Ability to mentor and provide technical guidance to other engineers.
- Experience inmulti-cloud or hybridenvironments.
- Background incost optimization, scaling, and performance tuning.
- Familiarity withSRE principles(SLOs, SLIs, error budgets).
- Kubernetes:Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS) or Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)
- IaC:HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate
- Security:HashiCorp Certified: Vault Associate
- Cloud:OCI, AWS, or GCP Professional/Architect certification
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