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We’re looking for a highly skilled Platform Engineer to help scale and strengthen our Kubernetes-based production environment. In this role, you’ll take ownership of platform reliability, performance, and observability while working hands-on across Kubernetes, GCP, Terraform, and modern infrastructure automation. You’ll collaborate closely with Engineering and Product teams to influence architecture decisions, solve complex performance challenges, and design resilient, scalable systems that support our growing platform. This is a high-impact role for someone who thrives in technical problem-solving, cares deeply about operational excellence, and enjoys building platforms that engineers love to use.
Responsibilities:
- Maintain and extend our Kubernetes platform
- Improve Performance & Reliability of our production platform
- Ensure proper observability of the production systems
- Assist with database and service performance tuning
- Collaborate with Development Engineers on impacts of new features
- Identify architecture bottlenecks and work with Engineering on new solutions
- Experience handling on-call response for public-facing services
- Collaborate with Support on operational runbooks
Requirements:
- Minimum 3+ years Kubernetes
- Operating System: Linux
- GCP Cloud experience is mandatory, good to have multi-cloud experience.
- Terraform
- Container lifecycle
- Programming Go, Python or similar
- Database optimization
- Network level troubleshooting
Education and Experience:
• At least 6 - 8 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 3 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 1 year experience; or equivalent experience preferred.
• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field preferred
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Skills Required
- Minimum 3 years of Kubernetes experience
- Linux operating system experience
- GCP cloud experience
- Terraform experience
- Container lifecycle experience
- Programming experience in Go, Python, or similar
- Database optimization experience
- Network-level troubleshooting experience
- 6–8 years of related experience with a bachelor's degree, or 3 years with a master's degree, or 1 year with a PhD, or equivalent experience
- Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
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Healthcare Strength — Health, dental, vision, mental-health support, and wellness programs are part of the package. Feedback suggests coverage breadth is a dependable component of total rewards.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Generous PTO, paid holidays and sick time, and bereavement leave are described alongside flexible or remote options. Feedback suggests ample time away meaningfully supports balance.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) and core financial protections such as life and disability insurance are included. Feedback suggests these fundamentals meet standard expectations for many.
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SonicWall has been fighting the cyber-criminal industry for over 25 years defending small, medium-size businesses and enterprises worldwide. Backed by research from the Global Response Intelligent Defense (GRID) Threat Network, our award-winning real-time breach detection and prevention solutions, coupled with the formidable resources of over 10,000 loyal channel partners around the globe, are the backbone securing more than a million business and mobile networks and their emails, applications and data. This combination of products and partners has enabled a real-time cyber defense solution tuned to the specific needs of the more than 500,000 global businesses in more than 215 countries and territories.
