Kubernetes Platform Engineer

#W2 Role

Job Title: Kubernetes Platform Engineer
Experience: 10 Years
Key Skills: DevOps Azure OpenShift CI/CD Kubernetes Platform Engineering Cloud-Native Platforms

Job Summary:
We are looking for an experienced Kubernetes Platform Engineer with 10 years of overall IT experience and strong expertise in DevOps Azure OpenShift CI/CD and platform engineering. The ideal candidate will be responsible for enabling development teams to onboard applications onto enterprise Kubernetes platforms in a streamlined and standardized way. This role requires strong hands-on experience with cloud-native technologies container platforms automation and developer support.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support and guide application development teams in onboarding their applications onto the Kubernetes platform using standard and streamlined processes.
• Collaborate with Development Platform Engineering Operations and Release Engineering teams to design and improve platform solutions that enhance developer experience and accelerate platform adoption.
• Drive cloud-native development best practices and help teams build scalable resilient and containerized applications.
• Partner with Release Engineering teams to implement and promote GitOps practices for version-controlled deployments and automated infrastructure management.
• Provide troubleshooting and support for Kubernetes-based applications platform configurations container deployments and connectivity issues.
• Develop and maintain onboarding guides platform documentation best practices and practical implementation examples for engineering teams.
• Conduct technical training sessions and workshops to help teams adopt Kubernetes OpenShift and cloud-native capabilities effectively.
• Collect feedback from development teams and continuously improve platform onboarding processes tooling and support models.
• Contribute to platform reliability automation scalability and operational excellence across enterprise container ecosystems.

Required Skills and Experience:

• 10 years of overall IT experience with strong background in software engineering DevOps and platform engineering.
• Hands-on expertise in Kubernetes OpenShift containers and enterprise platform onboarding.
• Strong experience with Azure cloud platform and cloud-native application architecture.
• Good understanding of CI/CD pipelines and tools such as GitHub Actions Jenkins or similar automation platforms.
• Experience with GitOps tools such as ArgoCD for deployment automation and configuration management.
• Knowledge of observability tools for monitoring logging alerting metrics and tracing in Kubernetes environments.
• Proficiency in at least one programming or scripting language such as Go Python Java or Shell scripting.
• Strong troubleshooting experience with containerized workloads Kubernetes deployments and platform support.
• Good understanding of DevOps practices automation scalability resiliency and developer enablement.

Preferred Skills:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or equivalent work experience.
• Familiarity with container security best practices image scanning and Kubernetes RBAC.
• Experience with Terraform Ansible or CloudFormation for infrastructure automation.
• Knowledge of Helm charts OpenShift Operators and CNCF ecosystem tools.
• Experience working in large-scale enterprise platform environments supporting multiple development teams.