# Senior Platform Engineer (Crossplane)

Senior Platform Engineer (Crossplane) Type: Remote | Brazil Coverage: Pacific Hours (8:00 AM - 5:00 PM PST) Job Description: We are looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to build and operate the cloud-native infrastructure powering a large-scale data platform that processes approximately 400,000 pipelines daily. This is a hands-on infrastructure engineering role: you will design and operate production Kubernetes platforms, build and extend infrastructure capabilities using Crossplane, and develop services, controllers, and platform tooling that other engineering teams depend on. The work spans Kubernetes platform architecture, infrastructure orchestration, networking, observability, and production operations. You will work with Kubernetes APIs, Crossplane, Terraform, GitOps, and production software development to build reusable, self-service infrastructure capabilities. We are looking for someone comfortable owning ambiguous, multi-quarter initiatives and driving them independently from design through production. Key Responsibilities: Platform and Kubernetes Engineering: Design, build, and operate production Kubernetes clusters, including cluster networking, workload isolation, an

- **Id**: 4234788
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/virta-sant-senior-platform-engineer-crossplane>
- **Role**: DevOps
- **Role family**: DevOps
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Austin, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-12T19:37:36Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-12
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-14T09:26:05Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 9277
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Cloud Cost & Multi-Cloud Management, Cloud Consulting & Migration

## Company

- **Id**: 2124108
- **Name**: Virta Sant
- **Domain**: virtasant.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/virtasant>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: services
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Teamtailor

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 78
- **Open postings**: 3
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.667
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 64
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

## Technologies

- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: no
- **ArgoCD** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **Bazel** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Crossplane** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **Envoy** — Optional: no
- **Flink** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **GDPR** — Optional: no
- **GitOps** — Optional: no
- **Go** — Optional: no
- **Grafana** — Optional: no
- **gRPC** — Optional: no
- **Istio** — Optional: no
- **Java** — Optional: no
- **KEDA** — Optional: no
- **Keycloak** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Linkerd** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **OpenTelemetry** — Optional: no
- **Platform Engineering** — Optional: no
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: no
- **Prometheus** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Rest API** — Optional: no
- **Service Mesh** — Optional: no
- **SLI/SLO/SLA** — Optional: no
- **SOC 2** — Optional: no
- **Spark** — Optional: no
- **SRE** — Optional: no
- **Terraform** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **Brazil** — Iso: BR; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T11:39:39Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 64
- **Reasons**: conf:4, velocity, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

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