Senior Cloud & Kubernetes Engineer

InterSystems powers some of the worlds most mission-critical healthcare financial services and data platforms. Our technology runs where reliability security and performance are not optional and where the work directly supports organizations that depend on trusted data every day.

As Managed Services and SaaS continue to modernize cloud engineering and Kubernetes are becoming core foundations for how we deliver resilient automated and scalable services globally. This role offers the opportunity to work on real production platforms improve how services are built and operated and help shape a modern cloud-native operating model.

This is a chance to do hands-on engineering work that matters: cloud automation Kubernetes operations reliability security and platform improvement in an environment where technical quality has meaningful business and client impact.

About the Role

We are seeking a Senior Cloud and Kubernetes Engineer to serve as a senior hands-on contributor for the build operation automation and continuous improvement of InterSystems Kubernetes-based managed services and SaaS platforms.

This role is more advanced than the Kubernetes Engineer position and is intended for someone who can independently own complex platform work lead production troubleshooting improve engineering standards and mentor other engineers while partnering closely with Kubernetes architects and SRE teams.

The Senior Cloud and Kubernetes Engineer will help translate architecture into reliable implementation bring operational discipline to Kubernetes environments and drive automation reliability security and platform maturity across public cloud private cloud and on-premises infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities

Senior Platform Engineering and Operations

• Independently build operate upgrade and improve production Kubernetes clusters across public cloud private cloud and on-premises environments.
• Lead complex cluster lifecycle activities including version upgrades node pool changes platform patching capacity planning and workload migration.
• Serve as an escalation point for Kubernetes issues involving cluster health networking ingress storage certificates scheduling resource pressure and workload failures.
• Identify systemic platform risks and drive corrective actions that improve reliability security and operability.
• Partner with architects to implement platform standards reference designs and approved operating patterns.

Automation GitOps and Infrastructure as Code

• Design and maintain reusable Terraform Helm and GitOps automation for repeatable Kubernetes platform deployment and configuration.
• Improve CI/CD and GitOps workflows using tools such as Argo CD Flux GitHub Actions GitLab Jenkins or Azure DevOps.
• Drive automation that reduces manual operations improves consistency and lowers operational risk.
• Review infrastructure and platform changes for quality reliability security and maintainability.
• Contribute to automation standards code review practices reusable modules and deployment patterns.

Security Governance and Compliance

• Implement and improve Kubernetes RBAC namespace isolation network policies secrets management certificate lifecycle management and workload security controls.
• Partner with security teams to remediate vulnerabilities enforce secure platform patterns and support audit or compliance requirements.
• Support image registry controls container scanning admission controls and policy-as-code practices where applicable.
• Help define practical security standards that can be consistently implemented by engineering and application teams.

Reliability Observability and Incident Leadership

• Lead troubleshooting of complex production incidents and coordinate with application infrastructure network security and database teams to restore service.
• Build and improve observability using Prometheus Grafana Loki Fluent Bit CloudWatch Azure Monitor or equivalent platforms.
• Develop actionable dashboards alerts and health checks that reduce noise and improve response quality.
• Participate in post-incident reviews and drive permanent corrective actions runbook improvements and reliability engineering practices.
• Support SLO error budget and capacity planning practices in partnership with SRE teams.

Mentorship and Technical Influence

• Mentor Kubernetes Engineers DevOps engineers and application teams on Kubernetes operations deployment practices and troubleshooting.
• Provide technical leadership during platform changes migrations incident reviews and application onboarding.
• Contribute to internal documentation runbooks implementation standards and knowledge-sharing sessions.
• Help establish a stronger engineering culture around automation reliability security and operational ownership.

Required Experience and Qualifications

• Eight or more years of experience in infrastructure cloud DevOps platform engineering or SRE roles.
• Five or more years of hands-on Kubernetes experience in production environments.
• Proven experience operating Kubernetes platforms supporting mission-critical or customer-facing workloads.
• Strong hands-on experience with at least one major public cloud platform such as AWS Azure or Google Cloud; experience with hybrid or on-premises Kubernetes is preferred.
• Advanced experience with Terraform Helm GitOps and CI/CD automation.
• Strong Linux container runtime Kubernetes networking ingress storage and troubleshooting skills.
• Practical experience with Kubernetes security including RBAC network policies secrets workload isolation and vulnerability remediation.
• Experience leading production incident response and driving root cause analysis and corrective actions.
• Ability to mentor engineers and influence technical direction without direct management authority.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills including the ability to explain complex platform issues to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Preferred Experience

• Experience with Spectro Cloud Rancher EKS AKS or GKE in production.
• Experience with service mesh technologies such as Istio Linkerd or Cilium.
• Experience with Kubernetes backup restore and disaster recovery tools such as Velero Kasten or Stash.
• Experience implementing policy-as-code admission controllers container scanning or runtime security tooling.
• Experience with SLOs error budgets capacity planning performance tuning and reliability engineering practices.
• Experience in regulated healthcare financial services or compliance-driven environments.
• Experience with Python Bash Go PowerShell or similar scripting and automation languages.
• Experience supporting migrations from traditional infrastructure or virtualization platforms to Kubernetes-based operating models.

Preferred Certifications

• Certified Kubernetes Administrator
• Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist
• Certified Kubernetes Application Developer
• HashiCorp Certified Terraform Associate
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional Azure DevOps Engineer Expert or Google Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer
• Linux Foundation or equivalent Linux certification

About InterSystems

InterSystems a creative data technology provider delivers a unified foundation for next-generation applications for healthcare finance manufacturing and supply chain customers in more than 80 countries. Our data platforms solve interoperability speed and scalability problems for large organizations around the globe to unlock the power of data and allow people to perceive data in imaginative ways. Established in 1978 InterSystems is committed to excellence through its 247 support for customers and partners around the world. Privately held and headquartered in Boston Massachusetts InterSystems has 38 offices in 28 countries worldwide. For more information please visit.