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This role will architect, scale, and operate enterprise-grade Kubernetes platforms while driving reliability, scalability, automation, and operational excellence across critical enterprise applications and infrastructure.\nThe ideal candidate will provide technical leadership on Kubernetes platform strategy, influence engineering best practices, and partner with cross-functional teams to build resilient, secure, and highly available cloud-native platforms at scale. This position requires deep hands-on experience with Kubernetes architecture, ArgoCD, GitOps methodologies, Infrastructure Automation, and Production Engineering.\n\nWhat You'll Do\nDevOps & Platform Engineering\nDesign, build, and optimize scalable CI/CD pipelines and Kubernetes-native platform solutions.\nDrive Infrastructure as Code (IaC), automation, and platform standardization initiatives.\nImprove developer experience through self-service infrastructure and deployment automation.\nLead architecture discussions and establish Kubernetes and DevOps platform standards across engineering teams.\nSite Reliability Engineering (SRE)\nDefine and champion reliability standards, SLAs, SLOs, and operational excellence frameworks.\nLead incident response, root cause analysis, and reliability improvement programs.\nDrive performance optimization, scalability enhancements, capacity planning, and disaster recovery strategies.\nBuild proactive monitoring, observability, and alerting capabilities to improve system health and availability.\nGitOps & Automation\nArchitect and manage GitOps practices using ArgoCD for multi-cluster Kubernetes application delivery.\nAutomate application deployment, configuration management, and environment provisioning.\nEstablish deployment governance, release management processes, and operational controls.\nEnsure secure, consistent, and auditable deployments across all environments.\nKubernetes & Cloud Infrastructure\nDefine and evolve enterprise Kubernetes platform architecture, standards, and multi-cluster/multi-region deployment strategies.\nDesign, deploy, and operate production Kubernetes clusters at scale across cloud environments (EKS, AKS, GKE, or equivalent).\nBuild and optimize containerized platform solutions using Docker and Kubernetes for high availability and performance.\nLead adoption of Kubernetes-native tooling including Helm, Kustomize, operators, and service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd, or equivalent).\nDrive cluster lifecycle management including upgrades, autoscaling, capacity planning, disaster recovery, and cost optimization.\nArchitect Kubernetes networking, ingress, storage (CSI), CNI, and workload isolation patterns for complex enterprise workloads.\nEstablish Kubernetes security frameworks including RBAC, network policies, pod security standards, secrets management, and DevSecOps integration.\nDrive Infrastructure as Code adoption using Terraform or equivalent technologies for cloud and Kubernetes infrastructure.\nPartner with Security and Engineering teams to implement platform governance, compliance, and operational controls.\nTechnical Leadership & Collaboration\nProvide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers across DevOps and platform teams.\nCollaborate with Engineering, Product, Infrastructure, and Security stakeholders to drive strategic initiatives.\nParticipate in architecture reviews and technology roadmap discussions.\nWork closely with global teams across EMEA and US regions.\nDemonstrate flexibility to work across overlapping business hours and shifts when required to support global stakeholders and critical production environments.\n\nWhat We Are Looking For\n12+ years of experience in Software Engineering, DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).\nStrong hands-on expertise in DevOps, SRE, CI/CD, Infrastructure Automation, and Cloud Engineering.\nProven experience implementing GitOps practices using ArgoCD.\nDeep expertise in Kubernetes platform architecture, cluster operations, and troubleshooting at enterprise scale, including Docker, Microservices, and Cloud Platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP).\nProven experience architecting, deploying, and operating large-scale production Kubernetes platforms in enterprise environments.\nExpert-level hands-on experience with Kubernetes tooling such as Helm, Kustomize, kubectl, cluster APIs, and platform engineering frameworks.\nExperience leading Kubernetes migration, modernization, and 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Ours unite us. They are what drive our success †and the success of our customers. 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