Senior Platform Engineer – Kubernetes, Rancher & NeuVector

About the role

We are seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to lead the design, deployment, and operation of our Kubernetes‑based infrastructure. The role focuses on building secure, scalable platforms using Rancher and NeuVector, and supporting hybrid or multi‑cloud environments.

Key responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and manage production and non‑production Kubernetes clusters with Rancher.
• Integrate NeuVector for runtime container security, policy enforcement, and vulnerability management.
• Automate platform provisioning and configuration using Terraform, Ansible, Helm, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Collaborate with security and networking teams to define and enforce platform policies.
• Build and maintain observability stacks (monitoring, logging, alerting) and operational dashboards.
• Support development and DevOps teams with reliable platform services.
• Participate in incident response, root‑cause analysis, and performance tuning.
• Optionally contribute to hyper‑converged infrastructure operations using Harvester.

Required profile

• 8+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering.
• Strong hands‑on expertise with Kubernetes (v1.20+) and Rancher.
• Practical experience securing container workloads with NeuVector.
• Proficiency in infrastructure‑as‑code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, and Helm.
• Experience with CI/CD tools (GitLab CI, Jenkins, ArgoCD).
• Solid Linux administration, networking knowledge, and shell scripting skills.

Required skills

• Kubernetes
• Rancher
• NeuVector
• Terraform
• Ansible
• Helm
• GitLab CI
• Jenkins
• ArgoCD
• Linux
• Shell scripting
• Prometheus
• Grafana
• Fluentd
• ELK
• Loki
• Harvester (nice to have)
• Hybrid/multi‑cloud deployments