Platform Engineer

What We’ll Expect From You:

•  At least 5 years of experience in platform engineering, infrastructure automation, SRE, or a similar role.
• Understanding of Kubernetes architecture, concepts, and components, with hands-on experience in building and managing Kubernetes platforms in production environments.
•  Experienced with Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery principles (examples: Github Actions, Concourse).
•  Solid experience with containerization technologies such as Docker or ContainerD.
•  Strong foundation of Linux administration fundamentals.
•  Familiarity with observability best practices and tools, such as Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK Stack.
•  Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
•  Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.
•  Technical Writing (Documentation, process documents, proposals).
•  Experience with Go programming language not mandatory but a nice to have skill.
•  Kubernetes certifications are desirable (e.g. Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)).
•  Knowledge of the DigitalOcean cloud platform (e.g., droplets, spaces, networking) and infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., ansible, chef) is advantageous.