Principal Platform Engineer- GCP and Kubernetes is a must

The role

The Principal Platform Engineer will lead the evolution and performance of a Kubernetes-based production environment. You will drive reliability, scalability, and observability while working with Kubernetes, GCP, and Terraform.

What you will do

• Maintain, scale, and enhance the Kubernetes production platform
• Improve performance, reliability, and availability of production systems
• Ensure comprehensive observability across services, infrastructure, and applications
• Diagnose and tune database and service performance across distributed systems
• Partner with Development teams to assess platform impact of new features
• Identify workflow friction and contribute to scalable, resilient technical solutions
• Collaborate with Support teams to build operational runbooks and improve incident response
• Provide leadership and mentoring within the team
• Participate in on-call rotations, lead incident response, and drive Root Cause Analysis

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on Kubernetes experience in production environments
• 3+ years GCP cloud experience required
• Strong expertise with Linux systems administration and troubleshooting
• Proficiency with Terraform and infrastructure-as-code workflows
• Strong understanding of container lifecycle management and deployments
• Programming experience in Go, Python, or a comparable language
• Experience with database performance optimization and tuning
• Experience handling on-call response for public-facing services
• Solid knowledge of networking fundamentals and network-level troubleshooting

Nice to have

• multi-cloud exposure
• Prior team lead and mentorship experience
• At least 10+ years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree
• 8 years and a Master’s degree
• PhD with 5 years experience
• equivalent experience
• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

About the company

SonicWall has delivered a partner-first unified cybersecurity portfolio for more than 30 years. The company helps SMBs, MSPs, and IT teams consolidate security across hybrid environments.