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

burst load

• Strong familiarity with MQTT...