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Better for our customers. Better for their business. Better for the world. \nWith ourDecision Intelligence Platform,Movement, we’re redefining how global supply chains operate. By transforming fragmented logistics data into real-time, AI-powered insights, we empower companies to connect instantly, see clearly, act decisively, and automate intelligently. Our Supply Chain AI enhances visibility, drives smarter execution, and unlocks next-gen applications that keep businesses moving forward. \nHeadquartered in Chicago, IL with a 2nd HQ in Bengaluru, India we are powered by a diverse global team that is tackling the toughest logistics challenges with innovation, urgency, and purpose. \nAI at project44\nWe expect every project44 team member, regardless of role or function, to actively leverage AI in their day-to-day work. Whether you're building product, serving customers, managing people, or running operations, AI is a tool you're expected to use with intent, curiosity, and judgment. We don't expect everyone to be a data scientist. We do expect everyone to be an intelligent user of AI: able to identify where it adds value, direct it effectively, evaluate outputs critically, and govern it responsibly. We invest in our team's AI fluency because we believe it's a competitive advantage for every person at project44, not just our engineers\nIf you’re driven to solve meaningful problems, leverage AI to scale rapidly, drive impact daily, and be part of a high-performance team - we should talk. \nThe Role \nproject44 is looking for a Senior DevOps/SRE/Platform Engineer to join our Foundations Engineering team. You will work in a fast-paced Agile environment designing, building, and operating the foundational systems that power project44's global logistics network-ensuring our platform is reliable, observable, cost-efficient, and built to scale. This is a high-ownership, high-impact role at the intersection of cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, and developer enablement. \nKey Accountabilities: What you'll work on \nDesign, build, and operate core infrastructure across our primary GCP environment and secondary AWS footprint, leveraging managed services to deliver scalable, reliable, and cost-effective solutions \nOwn and evolve our Kubernetes (GKE) platform-cluster lifecycle management, node pool strategy, networking, RBAC, and workload reliability-ensuring developer teams can ship safely and quickly \nBuild and maintain Terraform-based infrastructure-as-code across cloud environments, enforcing standards for modularity, state management, and repeatable, auditable provisioning \nManage and improve our Kafka and Strimzi streaming infrastructure, supporting high-throughput event pipelines that are foundational to project44's real-time data capabilities \nLead and execute cost optimization initiatives-rightsizing compute, improving resource utilization, reducing waste, and creating visibility and accountability for cloud spend across engineering teams \nChampion observability and reliability practices - SLOs/SLIs, incident response, on-call processes, and postmortems - to reduce MTTR and prevent recurrence. \nPartner with application engineering teams to define and implement platform standards for deployment, scaling, service mesh, secrets management, and infrastructure security \nParticipate in a team on-call rotation, debugging and resolving infrastructure and platform incidents with urgency and rigor \nContribute to technical design discussions, architecture reviews, and documentation-helping set a high bar for quality, reliability, and operational excellence across the engineering organization \nMentor and support other engineers through code reviews, pairing, and technical guidance \nEvaluate and introduce new tools, platforms, and automation to continuously modernize the infrastructure stack. \nDrive cost-optimization initiatives across cloud spend without compromising reliability or performance. \n Qualities \nStrong communication skills, with the ability to clearly explain infrastructure decisions through design docs, postmortems, and cross-functional discussions, and collaborate effectively with both technical and non-technical partners \nA strong analytical approach to problem-solving, with comfort navigating ambiguity and making tradeoffs explicit-especially across reliability, velocity, and cost \nA sense of ownership, curiosity, and resilience-comfortable voicing ideas, incorporating feedback, and iterating toward better solutions \nA platform-minded builder who thinks about the engineers and systems they enable, not just the infrastructure they manage \n Qualifications \n5+ years of professional experience in platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, SRE, DevOps, or a closely related role \nStrong experience in: \nKubernetes administration and operations at scale (GKE strongly preferred), including cluster networking, autoscaling, workload isolation, and upgrade management \nKafka operations and architecture, including topic design, consumer group management, broker configuration, and integration with streaming workloads (Strimzi experience a plus) \nInfrastructure-as-code using Terraform-module design, state management, CI-driven plan/apply workflows, and drift detection \nGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP) across core services: GKE, GCS, Cloud NAT, VPC networking, IAM, Artifact Registry, and related managed services \nCloud observability tooling and practices-building meaningful dashboards, alerts, SLI/SLO frameworks, and runbooks regardless of the tool stack \nCloud networking fundamentals: VPCs, subnetting, private connectivity, DNS, load balancing, and security group/firewall design \nCloud cost management: identifying and executing on optimization opportunities, building spend visibility, and influencing engineering behavior around resource efficiency \nDesirable and helpful (but not necessary): \nExperience with AWS services alongside a primary GCP environment \nScripting or automation in Python, Go, Bash, or similar for operational tooling \nExperience with service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd) or advanced Kubernetes networking (Cilium, Calico) \nFamiliarity with CI/CD systems and GitOps patterns (ArgoCD, Flux, or similar) \nExperience building or operating developer platform capabilities (internal developer platforms, golden paths, self-service provisioning) \nUsing AI-assisted development tools for infrastructure automation, runbook generation, or operational tooling (e.g., Claude, GitHub Copilot, or similar) \nWork Authorization: Candidates must be authorized to work in the US without current or future employer-sponsored visa support.\nIn-office Commitment: Our office is where ideas spark, connections thrive, and innovation comes alive. We are looking for candidates who are enthusiastic and committed to joining our team on-site, in our beautiful headquarters 3 days a week. Together, we’re building something extraordinary-learn, grow, and thrive in our fast-paced, transformative environment.\nWe continually evaluate our pay ranges to reflect skills, experience, and market conditions. The base salary offered will be determined by assessing a candidate's experience and skills relative to the scope and responsibilities of the position, as well as the specific geographic location where the job will be performed. Base salary is one component of project44's total compensation package, which also includes stock options for all EOR and project44-employed team members, bonus or commission eligibility depending on role, and a benefits package tailored to your country of employment. Specific benefits package offerings vary by country and may include health, dental, and vision coverage, retirement plans, and paid time off, in line with local market standards and statutory programs. The base salary range for this position is USD 130,000 - USD 190,000\nDiversity & Inclusion \nAt project44, we're designing the future of how the world moves. As we work to deliver a truly world-class product, we're intentionally building teams that reflect the unique communities we serve. We're focused on creating a company where all team members can bring their authentic selves to work every day. \nproject44 is an equal opportunity employer. If you share our values and passion for the future of logistics, we'd love to review your application. 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