Overview
The Senior Platform Engineer will be responsible for ensuring the health, scalability, and security of a 24/7 cloud platform primarily using Kubernetes (AKS) and Azure. This fully remote role, with occasional overseas travel, involves hands-on Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) work, including incident management and performance monitoring, within a cloud and managed platform environment. The successful contractor will work collaboratively to enhance the existing infrastructure and observability frameworks.
Responsibilities
- Ensure the smooth operation of a 24/7 cloud platform.
- Lead incident responses and implement post-incident improvements.
- Build and enhance disaster recovery plans and performance testing initiatives.
- Migrate incident and alerting tools to a new service management platform.
- Optimize observability stacks using Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and Fluent Bit.
- Automate tasks using scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or Go.
- Manage CI/CD processes through GitHub Actions and configuration with Ansible.
Requirements
- Proven experience with production Kubernetes, specifically AKS.
- Strong expertise in Azure cloud services.
- Demonstrable experience in owning service-level objectives (SLOs) and managing incidents.
- Familiarity with observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki.
- Proficient in scripting with Python, Bash, or Go.
- Strong foundational knowledge of Linux systems.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and configuration management tools like Ansible.
- Multi-cloud exposure, ideally with Oracle Cloud as a bonus.