Engineer III (Platform Infrastructure Engineer)

The role

You will be responsible for the operational health, maintenance, and reliability of Kubernetes infrastructure and in-cluster services. You will focus on maintaining the stability and performance of large-scale production environments.

What you will do

• Lead platform maintenance task, upgrades, and patching across Kubernetes clusters and in cluster services.
• Design and implement automation efforts to reduce manual tasks and improve system reliability.
• Troubleshoot and resolve production issues.
• Perform root cause analysis and participate in incident/problem management processes.
• Act as a technical lead, providing mentorship, guidance, and code reviews for junior engineers.
• Partner with engineering leads to define the technical roadmap for the Kubernetes platform and cloud infrastructure.
• Collaborate with development teams regarding Kubernetes and infrastructure queries.
• Develop and improve observability by developing dashboards and alerting within Grafana.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, mathematics, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Hands-on experience managing and supporting infrastructure in a Public Cloud environment (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• In depth knowledge and operational experience with large-scale and multi-tenant Kubernetes environments.
• A solid understanding of Linux system administration.
• Proficiency with Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tooling such as Terraform.
• Experience with Observability tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, or OpenTelemetry.
• Software development or scripting skills for automation (e.g., Python, Go, or Bash).
• Proven track record of designing, deploying, and maintaining highly available cloud architectures.
• Experience working in an operational context, including an understanding of incident management and on-call responsibilities.

Nice to have

• Experience with Kubernetes in-cluster services like Ingress Controllers (e.g., Traefik, Ingress NGINX), Cert Manager, and a Service Mesh (eg. Istio).
• Experience with configuration management tools like Ansible.
• Understanding of Agile/Kanban methodologies.

About the company

Anaplan is a team of innovators focused on optimizing business decision-making through an AI-infused scenario planning and analysis platform. Their customers include global companies such as Coca-Cola, LinkedIn, Adobe, LVMH, and Bayer.