The Role
Designs, deploys, and operates secure, production-grade platform infrastructure in on-premises and air-gapped environments. Responsibilities include managing Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, distributed systems, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, observability, disaster recovery, and infrastructure security. The role partners with software engineers to productionize services and improve developer experience. Experience with platform engineering, Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, CI/CD, distributed systems, Grafana, Prometheus, object storage, AWS, and Python is required.
Summary Generated by Built In
As Emumba's Senior Platform Engineer, you'll play a pivotal role in building and operating secure, production-grade infrastructure that powers modern AI platforms, distributed systems, and enterprise applications. This role focuses on designing resilient on-premises and air-gapped environments, enabling engineering teams to deploy software reliably, securely, and at scale. You'll help shape the foundation that our developers and customers rely on every day.
Key Responsibilities
Build Production Platform Infrastructure
- Design, deploy, and maintain Kubernetes-based platforms in on-premises and air-gapped environments.
- Build reusable infrastructure using Terraform and Helm.
- Improve platform scalability, reliability, and operational efficiency.
- Deploy and manage distributed infrastructure including Kafka, object storage, messaging platforms, and background processing services.
- Support data platforms such as Spark clusters or Lakehouse architectures where required.
- Ensure high availability, resilience, and disaster recovery across production systems.
- Build production-ready CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
- Implement monitoring, dashboards, alerting, and observability using Grafana and Prometheus.
- Improve incident response, operational health, and platform performance.
- Implement secure deployment pipelines and infrastructure security controls.
- Design access management using RBAC, secrets management, and least-privilege principles.
- Collaborate closely with software engineers to productionize services and continuously improve developer experience.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
- 5+ years of Platform Engineering, DevOps, Infrastructure Engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering experience.
- Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes.
- Strong Terraform experience.
- Strong experience creating and maintaining Helm Charts.
- Experience building and operating production CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience deploying and managing production infrastructure in on-premises or air-gapped environments.
- Experience with distributed systems such as Kafka, message queues, or background processing services.
- Experience with Grafana, monitoring, metrics, dashboards, and alerting.
- Experience implementing deployment security, RBAC, access control, and infrastructure security best practices.
- Experience with MinIO or similar object storage solutions.
- Experience deploying API services in production environments.
- Working knowledge of AWS.
- Comfortable writing code for automation and platform tooling (Python preferred).
Nice-to-Have
- Experience with Spark, Lakehouse architectures, or modern data platforms.
- Experience with GitOps tools such as ArgoCD or FluxCD.
- Experience with Azure or Google Cloud Platform.
- Experience building or deploying backend API services.
- Experience supporting AI/ML infrastructure.
- Knowledge of service mesh technologies.
- Experience with distributed storage systems.
What's In It for You
- Work on challenging infrastructure problems at production scale.
- Build platforms powering AI, cloud, and distributed systems for global customers.
- Collaborate with experienced engineers across Platform, Cloud, AI, and Backend teams.
- Sponsored certifications and continuous learning opportunities.
- Comprehensive OPD and IPD health coverage.
- Flexible remote-first work model across Pakistan.
About
Emumba is a global engineering and consulting company with strengths in software development and an established AWS cloud practice focused on Data and GenAI. For 15 years, our teams across the US, the UAE, and Pakistan have earned trust through quality delivery and ownership of work. We look for people who value the culture they work in as much as the craft they bring to it.
Skills Required
- 5+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, Infrastructure Engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes
- Experience with Terraform
- Experience creating and maintaining Helm charts
- Experience building and operating production CI/CD pipelines
- Experience deploying and managing production infrastructure in on-premises or air-gapped environments
- Experience with distributed systems such as Kafka, message queues, or background processing services
- Experience with Grafana, monitoring, metrics, dashboards, and alerting
- Experience implementing deployment security, RBAC, access control, and infrastructure security best practices
- Experience with MinIO or similar object storage solutions
- Experience deploying API services in production environments
- Working knowledge of AWS
- Ability to write automation and platform tooling, preferably in Python
- Experience with Spark, Lakehouse architectures, or modern data platforms
- Experience with GitOps tools such as ArgoCD or FluxCD
- Experience with Azure or Google Cloud Platform
- Experience building or deploying backend API services
- Experience supporting AI/ML infrastructure
- Knowledge of service mesh technologies
- Experience with distributed storage systems
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The Company
What We Do
Emumba is a global software services company specializing in enterprise-grade software, AI systems, cloud, and DevOps solutions, enabling innovation for Fortune 500 customers.
