Senior platform engineer

Job Description
Critical Skills to Possess:
Kubernetes & Container Orchestration
• 3+ years of production Kubernetes experience; bare-metal / on-premises
experience is mandatory — cloud-managed Kubernetes experience alone does not
qualify
• Hands-on Helm chart authoring (not just consumption), Argo CD or equivalent
Git Ops tooling, and cert-manager
• Deep understanding of Kubernetes control plane HA: etcd Raft quorum, leader
election, minimum viable node counts
• Experience with Metal LB and Traefik or equivalent bare-metal ingress and load
balancing tools
Messaging & Streaming
• Production hands-on experience with Apache Kafka: topic configuration, partition
sizing, replication factor, consumer group management, KRaft mode
• Solid understanding of consumer lag monitoring and back-pressure patterns under
burst load
• Strong familiarity with MQTT protocol semantics: persistent sessions, Qo S levels,
TLS mutual authentication; hands-o...