Remote Platform Engineer (Kubernetes)

Summary

Join Steer's Platform Engineering Team as a Senior Platform Engineer with extensive production Kubernetes experience to design and implement infrastructure in Kubernetes, improve monitoring and alerting, work with application engineers, and ensure uptime, resilience, and scalability.

Requirements

• Experience working for a product company, ideally a startup; consulting, outsourcing, corporate experience is non-transferable
• 8+ years Platform Engineering/DevOps/System administration
• 4+ years extensive, demonstrable, every day Kubernetes experience: designing, deploying and operating complex production environments using advanced cloud native tools
• 5+ years public cloud experience: AWS (preferred), GCP, Azure
• 4+ years extensive Terraform experience, including managing large infrastructures, writing modules, refactoring manifests, Terragrunt or similar
• 3+ years programming experience in a modern programming language: Go (preferred), Python, plus shell scripting proficiency
• Worked with mission-critical, 24/7 production environments
• Experience securing infrastructure for internet-facing applications

Responsibilities

• Manage and deploy cloud-based environments for all stages of application development and testing
• Build deployment tooling to allow our application developers greater autonomy and self service
• Find and mitigate application, cloud and network vulnerabilities and bottlenecks. Not only suggest improvements, but champion investment in those improvements
• Develop and deploy CI/CD automation infrastructure using Github Actions, Flux
• Ensure appropriate application and infrastructure logging and monitoring to maintain highest possible uptime
• Monitor system components and application processing to proactively identify incidents, resolve issues, and lead incident support / root cause analysis

Preferred Qualifications

• Extensive CI/CD knowledge, implementing software build and deployment pipelines, advanced deployment patterns
• GitOps experience (FluxCD, ArgoCD)
• Hands-on experience with some/all of MongoDB, RabbitMQ, Redis, Postgres, service meshes, API gateways, etc
• Hands-on monitoring experience with modern tools and services, e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, ELK/EFK, CloudWatch, DataDog, NewRelic
• Good understanding of distributed systems
• Agile software development methodologies experience

Benefits

• Health, Dental & Vision Insurance
• Flexible PTO
• Learning Stipend
• 100% Remote
• WFH Equipment
• Chance to work with the latest technology
• A collaborative and innovative work culture
• Opportunities for career growth and development