Senior Platform Engineer (Kubernetes / Rancher / NeuVector)
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We are looking for a highly skilled Senior Platform Engineer to join ourinfrastructure and platform engineering team. The ideal candidate will havedeep expertise in building and managing Kubernetes platforms using Rancher, securing containerizedworkloads with NeuVector, and working acrosshybrid or multi-cloud environments. Experience with Harvester or hyperconverged infrastructure platformsis a strong plus.
This role is central to designing, deploying, and maintaining our modern infrastructure stack and enabling secure, scalable environments forapplication teams.
Key Responsibilities
• Design, deploy,and manage Kubernetes clusters using Rancher in production and non-production environments.
• Integrate and manage NeuVector forcontainer security (runtimescanning, policy enforcement, vulnerability management,etc.).
• Implement platformautomation using tools such as Terraform, Ansible,Helm, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Collaborate with security and networking teams to define and enforcepolicies across containerized platforms.
• Build and maintain observability (monitoring, logging, alerting)and operational dashboards.
• Work closelywith development and DevOps teams to providereliable platform capabilities.
• Participate in incident response, RCA, and performance tuning activities.
• Optionally contribute to HCI platformoperations and VM orchestration if using Harvester.
Required Skills and Experience
• 6+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or PlatformEngineering roles.
• Strong hands-onexperience with Kubernetes architecture and operations (preferably K8s v1.20+).
• Experience managingproduction-grade Kubernetes clusterswith Rancher.
• Solid understanding of container securitybest practices and operational experience with
NeuVector.
• Proficiency in infrastructure as code (e.g.,Terraform, Helm, Ansible).
• Experience with CI/CD toolssuch as GitLabCI, Jenkins, or ArgoCD.
• Good knowledgeof Linux systems,networking, and shell scripting.
• Understanding of monitoring/logging toolssuch as Prometheus, Grafana, Fluentd, ELK, or Loki.
Nice to Have
• Experience with Harvesteror other HCI platforms for VM management on bare metal.
• Familiarity with air-gapped or edge deployments.
• Exposure to hybrid/multi-cloud platformdeployments.
• Certifications in Kubernetes (CKA/CKS), Rancher, or relatedtechnologies