Senior Cloud Kubernetes Engineer

About the role

We are looking for a Senior Cloud Kubernetes Engineer to act as the technical authority for designing, evolving and operating large‑scale Kubernetes platforms that support managed services and SaaS offerings. The role combines strategic architecture work with hands‑on implementation across hybrid and multi‑cloud environments.

Key responsibilities

• Define and maintain reference architectures and design patterns for Kubernetes on‑premises, private and public clouds.
• Lead architectural reviews covering cluster design, networking, security, scaling and multi‑region strategies.
• Design, build and evolve Kubernetes clusters using EKS, AKS, GKE, Rancher or equivalent enterprise distributions.
• Establish best practices for cluster lifecycle management, upgrades, multi‑tenancy and workload isolation.
• Implement advanced networking models, CNI plugins, ingress controllers and network policies.
• Design secure RBAC, secrets management and workload isolation aligned with enterprise security.
• Define Infrastructure‑as‑Code standards with Terraform, Helm and GitOps workflows and create reusable modules.
• Drive automation for provisioning, configuration and lifecycle management through CI/CD pipelines.
• Architect observability solutions using Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Fluentd/Fluent Bit and define monitoring, alerting and capacity planning strategies.
• Mentor engineers across DevOps, SRE and platform teams and influence long‑term platform strategy.

Required profile

• Extensive experience designing, building and operating production‑grade Kubernetes platforms at scale.
• Strong background in hybrid and multi‑cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Proven ability to lead technical discussions and mentor engineering teams.
• Deep understanding of security, networking and automation best practices for cloud native platforms.

Required skills

• Kubernetes (EKS, AKS, GKE, Rancher)
• Terraform
• Helm
• GitOps workflows
• CI/CD pipelines
• Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Fluentd, Fluent Bit
• CNI plugins, ingress controllers, network policies
• RBAC, secrets management
• AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform