Senior Platform Engineer

Job Description

Critical Skills to Possess:

Kubernetes & Container Orchestration

- 3+ years of production Kubernetes experience;
bare-metal / on-premises

experience is mandatory — cloud-managed Kubernetes experience alone does not

qualify

- Hands-on Helm chart authoring (not just consumption), ArgoCD or equivalent

GitOps tooling, and cert-manager

- Deep understanding of Kubernetes control plane HA: etcd Raft quorum, leader

election, minimum viable node counts

- Experience with MetalLB and Traefik or equivalent bare-metal ingress and load

balancing tools

Messaging & Streaming

- Production hands-on experience with Apache Kafka: topic configuration, partition

sizing, replication factor, consumer group management, KRaft mode

- Solid understanding of consumer lag monitoring and back-pressure patterns under

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