Senior Staff Engineer - Container Engineering

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve Kubernetes platforms (Rancher/RKE2 or AKS), defining standards for upgrades, scaling strategies, performance tuning, cost/capacity management, backups, and HA architecture.
• Design and lead automation and golden path initiatives, including Terraform modules, Helm/ Kustomize frameworks, reusable CI/CD workflows, and scalable self-service onboarding.
• Own GitOps architecture with Argo CD, including digest-pinned deployments, policy-as-code, image signing/SBOM integration, drift detection, and rollback strategies.
• Define and harden CI/CD patterns that balance speed, security, and compliance, including identity-based cloud access, approvals, and immutable audit trails.
• Set strategy for container supply chain security and registry governance (ACR), including promotion models and immutability.
• Own platform observability, defining SLOs, alerting standards, dashboards, and capacity hygiene across clusters.
• Partner closely with engineering, infrastructure, and security leaders on platform adoption, incident response, runbooks, and long-term planning.
• Act as a technical leader on the team: mentoring engineers, influencing design decisions, and contributing to roadmap planning.
• Ensure security and compliance controls are built into the platform by default without slowing delivery.

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