Cloud Platform Engineer/Senior SRE (8+ years of exp, AWS EKS, Terraform, Kubernetes, SRE Automation)

Project Description:

• Monitoring as a Platform is a platform that is the first critical step towards a self-managed infrastructure, and includes capabilities like real-time monitoring, intelligent networks, self-healing, and IoT to achieve improved productivity, organizational agility, and improved employee experiences.

Responsibilities:

Cloud Architecture & Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

• Lead the design and implementation of highly available, multi-region AWS architectures with a primary focus on EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service).
• Extensive Terraform Tooling: Develop, maintain, and version-control modular Terraform templates to manage complex cloud resources, ensuring 100% of infrastructure is codified and reproducible.
• Configuration Management: Utilize Ansible Playbooks for OS-level hardening, application configuration, and hybrid-cloud task automation.
• Kubernetes Orchestration & Security
• K8s Lifecycle Management: Manage the full lifecycle of EKS clusters, including upgrades, node group optimization, and cost management.
• Security & Governance: Implement and enforce Kubernetes security best practices, including Service Accounts (IRSA), Network Policies, RBAC, and integrated Secrets Management (e.g., HashiCorp Vault or AWS Secrets Manager).
• Containerization: Lead the effort to containerize complex legacy applications and optimize configuration patterns within Kubernetes.
• CI/CD & SRE Automation
• GitHub Actions Excellence: Design and optimize high-speed GitHub Actions workflows for automated testing, security scanning, and seamless deployments.
• SRE Scripting: Develop advanced automation scripts (Python, Go, or Bash) to eliminate "toil," automate self-healing, and perform capacity planning.
• Observability & Monitoring: Build and maintain comprehensive Grafana dashboards to monitor Pod/Service performance. Deploy and configure Beats agents (Filebeat, Metricbeat) as DaemonSets to ensure deep visibility into container logs and system metrics.

Mandatory Skills Description:

• 8+ years of professional experience in Cloud Engineering/DevOps, with at least 5 years of focused Kubernetes administration.
• Cloud Mastery: Expert-level knowledge of AWS (VPC, IAM, EKS, RDS, Route53, S3, Gateway API, Lambda).
• IaC: Expert in Terraform (Reusable modules, state management).
• Automation: Strong proficiency in Ansible and SRE-focused scripting.
• CI/CD: Deep experience with GitHub Actions.
• Container Ecosystem: Expert knowledge of Docker, K8s networking, and the ELK/Beats stack.
• Monitoring: Mastery of Grafana and Prometheus for performance tuning.
• Certification: (Highly Preferred) CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator) or AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional.
• Scripting Languages: Python, Shell Script
• Architectural Vision: Ability to translate business requirements into scalable technical blueprints.
• Mentorship: Proven track record of guiding junior and senior engineers through complex technical hurdles.
• Incident Leadership: Experience leading Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and post-mortem discussions to improve system resilience.

Nice-to-Have Skills Description:

• Other AWS certifications is a plus