About the Role

Most Important

• 5+ years architecting and operating large-scale Kubernetes environments

• Deep experience with:

• AWS EKS, VPCs, IAM roles (IRSA), Outposts

• Ingress controllers (NGINX, AWS LB Controller, Traefik, Istio)

• Terraform, Helm, GitOps (ArgoCD/Flux)

• Persistent storage: EBS, EFS, FSx

• Security: RBAC, OPA/Gatekeeper, container scanning

• Monitoring: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, OpenTelemetry

• Experience running multi-region and multi-tenant Kubernetes clusters

• Hands-on platform engineering (not just app deployment experience)

Nice to Have

• Experience managing enterprise-scale operations with 100+ clusters and integrating AWS Outposts or Local Zones.

• Familiarity with policy management tools (OPA/Rego) and service mesh architectures (Istio, Linkerd).

• Proficiency with modern observability and monitoring stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional, or Kubernetes Certified (CKA/CKAD/CKS).

Personal Traits

• Strong communication skills with the ability to articulate complex system design concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Problem-solving mindset focused on operational excellence, platform stability, and long-term scalability.

• High degree of autonomy with the ability to thrive and collaborate in a globally distributed team.