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Platform Operations Engineer

Location: Remote
Compensation: Salary
Reviewed: Wed, Jul 22, 2026
This job expires in: 30 days

Job Summary

Owning the day-to-day reliability and performance of Kubernetes clusters, the full-time remote Platform Operations Engineer will partner with internal teams to onboard workloads, diagnose complex issues, and enhance observability monitoring for service availability.

Key responsibilities:
  • Manage the reliability and operations of Kubernetes clusters supporting internal customer use cases
  • Collaborate with program teams to onboard new workloads and forecast capacity needs
  • Enhance monitoring and alerting systems to improve service availability and reduce downtime
Required qualifications:
  • University degree or equivalent experience with a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience, or an Advanced Degree with 3 years of experience
  • Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued security clearance; U.S. citizenship required
  • Experience with installing, deploying, and supporting Kubernetes clusters on-premises and/or in the cloud
  • Proficiency in Kubernetes-adjacent tooling such as Helm, Ansible, Terraform, Python, and Bash
  • Experience with observability tools like Grafana and Prometheus

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