Kubernetes Platform Engineer

About the role

A global investment firm in Singapore is hiring a Kubernetes Platform Engineer for its highly technical infrastructure team. This is a hands-on role focused on designing, building and operating Kubernetes platforms, moving towards Infrastructure-as-Code, improving the developer deployment experience and automating the underlying infrastructure.

Key responsibilities

• Design, build and operate production Kubernetes platforms and clusters.
• Provision and manage Kubernetes infrastructure using Terraform / Infrastructure-as-Code.
• Build and maintain CI/CD and GitOps workflows so developers can deploy applications reliably.
• Develop and maintain Helm charts and Kubernetes YAML configurations.
• Manage Kubernetes upgrades, networking, storage, security and platform lifecycle.
• Troubleshoot Kubernetes clusters, nodes, workloads and production platform issues.
• Build automation and internal tooling using Python, Bash and/or Go.
• Improve platform observability using tools such as Prometheus and Grafana.
• Work with developers to improve how applications are built, deployed and operated, and help evolve the underlying infrastructure architecture.

Required profile

• Strong hands-on experience building and operating Kubernetes platforms in production.
• Experience managing Kubernetes at the platform / cluster level, not just deploying apps onto existing clusters.
• Experience can come from self-managed/on-premises environments or public cloud platforms such as AWS EKS, Azure AKS or Google GKE.
• Suitable for a Platform Engineer, Kubernetes Engineer or SRE whose recent focus has been building and operating Kubernetes platforms.

Required skills

• Strong Terraform / Infrastructure-as-Code experience.
• Hands-on experience with Helm and Kubernetes YAML.
• Infrastructure automation with Python, Bash and/or Go.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD and modern software deployment practices.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes networking, storage, security and observability.
• Solid Linux fundamentals.