Platform Engineer
Anitha PriyadarshiniUnited StatesMIDPosted 2h ago
KubernetesObservabilityReactNode.jsFastAPIHelmCI/CDGitOpsInfrastructure-as-codePrometheusGrafanaOpenTelemetryAWSEKSArgoCDCloudNative
About the Role
The Platform Engineer plays a critical role in the reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of a shared product platform. This role focuses on Kubernetes and contributing to a custom observability platform that provides engineers with clear visibility into system and service health.
Key Responsibilities
• Deploy, operate, and scale containerized workloads in production Kubernetes environments across multiple clusters.
• Own the reliability, performance, and availability of shared platform services.
• Package and manage applications using Helm.
• Reduce operational toil through automation and self-healing remediation.
• Contribute to and enhance the team's custom observability platform, including dashboards, monitoring, and tracing capabilities.
• Build monitoring for Kubernetes clusters and cloud-native services to surface scaling and resiliency issues.
• Maintain CI/CD pipelines and GitOps-based automated testing and deployment.
• Automate infrastructure and application configuration using infrastructure-as-code.
• Enable automated health checks and failover to support zero-downtime updates.
• Partner with and mentor engineering teams on reliability, observability, and DevOps best practices.
• Document platform designs, standards, and operational runbooks.
Requirements
• 6–7+ years of hands-on Kubernetes experience in production environments.
• Experience with Helm-based packaging.
• Comfort working with React, Node.js, and FastAPI components.