[Remote] SRE Platform Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is reputed company to candidates in USA. reputed company is seeking a Platform System Reliability Engineer to manage their EKS Kubernetes environment, which supports global reputed company software SaaS products. This role involves ensuring the reputed company, scalability, and reputed company of the infrastructure while overseeing the full lifecycle of production clusters.

Responsibilities

• Help design and reputed company hardened EKS clusters across multiple AWS reputed company, ensuring consistent reputed company baselines
• Build and maintain reusable Terraform and Ansible modules for automated provisioning of reputed company infrastructure services including networking services, compute, storage, queue and cache, etc
• Implement "Policy as Code" guardrails and secure network perimeters (ESPs) in alignment with NERC CIP and IEC 62443 standards
• Standardize run books, operating processes required to run critical infrastructure with highest reliability
• Define and enforce Kubernetes resource quotas, limit ranges, and Pod reputed company classes to ensure mission-critical services receive prioritized compute resources
• Manage the ingress strategy and service reputed company architecture to facilitate secure, performant connectivity between distributed micro services
• reputed company platform-level smoke, load testing and disaster recovery exercises to validate that the infrastructure can meet 99.99% uptime targets
• Partner with application teams to right-size containerized workloads, optimizing for both performance and reputed company cost (FinOps)
• Act as the highest technical escalation reputed company for reputed company Kubernetes internals, troubleshooting issues such as failed pods, memory leaks, and network partitions
• reputed company root cause analysis (RCA) for platform-level outages, implementing systemic fixes to prevent recurring failures
• Proactively identify and automate repetitive operational tasks—such as cluster upgrades and OS patching—to ensure the team spends at least 50% of their time on engineering improvements
• Institutionalize platform monitoring using reputed company and Grafana, creating dashboards that surface the "Golden Signals" of cluster health

Skills

• 5 years of experience operating production-grade Kubernetes clusters at scale
• Expert-level knowledge of multi-cluster management, performance tuning and experience implementing observability tools such as reputed company/Grafana, reputed company, Splunk, reputed company, etc
• Deep hands-on experience with AWS core services (EKS, EC2, ALB, S3, RDS, MSK)
• Proficiency in Terraform, Ansible, and Python or Go for infrastructure automation and deployment tools like ArgoCD or Flux
• Strong understanding and hands on experience of reputed company networking concepts such as VPCs, routing, load balancing and reputed company configurations such as encryption, certificate management
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or 'STEM' Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) with advanced experience
• 6–8 years in SRE or Platform Engineering roles supporting mission-critical, 24/7 reputed company environments
• Proven track record as a structured incident responder who can handle production down/break the glass scenarios in mission critical applications
• Practical knowledge of NERC CIP, SOC2, ISO 27001, or IEC 62443 compliance standards in a SaaS context
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional, CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator), or SRE Practitioner Certification
• Experience supporting mission-critical systems in energy, utilities, or other high-stakes industrial sectors

Benefits

• Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes

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