Senior Platform Engineer

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in platform engineering, site reliability engineering (SRE), or core DevOps, with a proven track record of designing and delivering Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs).
• Expert-level mastery of Kubernetes administration, custom controller/operator architectures, service meshes (Istio/Linkerd), and continuous delivery via GitOps tools (ArgoCD or Flux).
• Deep proficiency using Terraform, OpenTofu, or Pulumi to construct modular, reusable infrastructure blueprints across cloud environments (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Strong programming skills in Go or Python to build custom platform extensions, CLI tools, Kubernetes operators, and API integrations.
• Practical experience building or integrating developer portals (e.g., Backstage, Port) and automated workflow engines to abstract infrastructure complexity.
• Hands-on experience establishing end-to-end telemetry standards using Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry for metric, log, and trace aggregation.

Nice-to-Have

• Experience with cloud-native control plane abstractions like Crossplane.
• Exposure to FinOps practices, container cost monitoring (e.g., Kubecost), and automated resource optimization.
• Active contributions to open-source cloud-native projects (CNCF ecosystem).
• Strong background in zero-trust security controls, secrets management (HashiCorp Vault), and compliance automation.