Senior Platform Engineer (Kubernetes / GitOps / Platform Security)

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the
• Lead Platform Architect to shape and execute core platform workstreams, including GitOps delivery, observability, security postures, data operators, and the Istio mesh rollout
• Design and implement GitOps pipelines via ArgoCD, establishing promotion paths, drift detection, self-healing mechanisms, and secure secrets management
• Configure and optimize the observability stack while actively defining SLOs, SLIs, and actionable alerts
• Drive the Istio service mesh rollout, implement phased adoption, secure mTLS policies, advanced traffic management, and proactive troubleshooting
• Harden platform security layers, ensure robust implementation of Coraza WAF at the ingress, HashiCorp Vault for secrets/PKI, and baseline Kubernetes security policies
• Manage stateful workload migrations, plan and execute cutovers for PostgreSQL and Kafka with precise validation routines and bulletproof rollback strategies
• Author operational documentation and runbooks, establish gold standards for Day-2 operations, incident response playbooks, and customer handovers
• Mentor the engineering team, share specialized knowledge in Kubernetes, GitOps, observability, and platform security to elevate overall team capabilities
• Maintain a continuous feedback loop with the

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