Lead Platform Engineer, Systems Engineering
$149,400–$180,000 year
On-siteAtlanta, Georgia, United States
Job Summary
Own and deliver platform features and enhancements, driving work from design through deployment and documentation. Lead onboarding of new teams and workloads via self-service and GitOps-based provisioning workflows. Maintain ArgoCD pipelines, Kyverno policies, and observability tooling including Grafana and Tempo dashboards. Collaborate with infrastructure and enablement sub-teams on cluster lifecycle events while engaging stakeholders to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions. Participate in 2nd or 3rd level support for on-call rotation. Own and maintain platform documentation, runbooks, and internal knowledge bases on Confluence.
Required Qualifications
- 6+ years of experience in platform engineering, DevOps, or a related discipline
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes in a production environment
- Experience with Kubernetes configuration and templating tools such as Kustomize or Helm
- Comfort operating in Linux environments and working with YAML-heavy configuration management
- Strong communication skills
- Deep proficiency in multiple platform disciplines: K8s Observability, K8s GitOps & Release Engineering, K8s Infrastructure Engineering, K8s Security & Policy Enforcement
Desired Qualifications
- OpenShift experience
- Red Hat OpenShift Certified Administrator (EX280) or equivalent certification
- Experience supporting internal platform consumers or operating in a shared-services model
- Ansible and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (AAP)
- Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management (ACM)
- Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security (ACS)
- Experience with HyperShift or OpenShift Hosted Control Planes
- Podman and container image build/management workflows
- Experience developing custom Kubernetes operators
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