<p>We are seeking a <strong>Principal Cloud Kubernetes Engineer</strong> to join our global infrastructure team to lead the architecture, strategy, and evolution of our cloud-native platform across public cloud and on-premises environments. This role serves as the organization's technical authority for Kubernetes, platform engineering, automation, and cloud infrastructure, driving platform scalability, reliability, security, and developer experience.</p> <p>The Principal Engineer will work across infrastructure, application development, security, and operations teams to establish standards, guide architecture decisions, and deliver highly automated self-service platforms supporting mission-critical workloads.</p> <p><strong>Key Responsibilities</strong></p> <p><strong>Platform Architecture & Strategy</strong></p> <ul> <li>Define and maintain the Kubernetes platform roadmap and cloud-native strategy.</li> <li>Architect multi-cluster, multi-region, and multi-cloud Kubernetes platforms supporting enterprise-scale workloads.</li> <li>Establish platform engineering standards, reference architectures, and operational best practices.</li> <li>Evaluate emerging technologies and provide technical guidance on platform modernization initiatives.</li> <li>Lead technical decision-making for container orchestration, platform automation, and cloud infrastructure investments.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Kubernetes Platform Engineering</strong></p> <ul> <li>Design, deploy, and operate enterprise Kubernetes platforms using EKS, AKS, GKE, Rancher, Spectro Cloud Palette, or equivalent technologies.</li> <li>Define cluster lifecycle management processes including provisioning, upgrades, patching, and decommissioning.</li> <li>Architect multi-tenant Kubernetes environments with strong isolation, governance, and compliance controls.</li> <li>Design Kubernetes networking architectures leveraging Cilium, Calico, service mesh technologies, and eBPF-based observability.</li> <li>Establish cluster security baselines and platform governance standards.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Infrastructure Automation & Platform as Code</strong></p> <ul> <li>Lead adoption of Infrastructure as Code and GitOps methodologies across engineering teams.</li> <li>Develop reusable Terraform modules, Helm charts, and platform automation frameworks.</li> <li>Design self-service provisioning capabilities for Kubernetes clusters, environments, and application onboarding.</li> <li>Implement Kubernetes Operators, controllers, and automation frameworks to eliminate operational toil.</li> <li>Define platform engineering patterns enabling rapid and consistent infrastructure delivery.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Cloud Infrastructure & Hybrid Operations</strong></p> <ul> <li>Architect Kubernetes solutions spanning AWS, Azure, GCP, and on-premises environments.</li> <li>Design resilient multi-region and disaster recovery architectures.</li> <li>Lead cloud infrastructure modernization initiatives and workload migrations.</li> <li>Define backup, recovery, business continuity, and platform resiliency strategies.</li> <li>Establish storage architectures using Portworx, CSI drivers, OpenEBS, or cloud-native storage services.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Reliability Engineering & Observability</strong></p> <ul> <li>Define enterprise observability standards and platform reliability objectives.</li> <li>Establish SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets for critical platform services.</li> <li>Architect monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting solutions using Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Loki, and related technologies.</li> <li>Lead root cause analysis efforts for major incidents and drive systemic improvements.</li> <li>Develop resiliency testing, chaos engineering, and disaster recovery validation programs.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Security & Compliance</strong></p> <ul> <li>Establish Kubernetes security architecture and cloud security standards.</li> <li>Lead implementation of policy-as-code frameworks using Kyverno, OPA/Gatekeeper, and admission controllers.</li> <li>Define workload identity, secrets management, and zero-trust platform strategies.</li> <li>Partner with security teams to satisfy regulatory, audit, and compliance requirements.</li> <li>Drive secure software supply chain initiatives including image signing, SBOM validation, and runtime protection.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Technical Leadership</strong></p> <ul> <li>Serve as the highest-level Kubernetes and platform engineering subject matter expert.</li> <li>Lead architecture reviews and provide technical guidance across multiple engineering teams.</li> <li>Mentor senior engineers and influence engineering excellence across the organization.</li> <li>Drive cross-functional initiatives involving platform engineering, DevOps, SRE, security, and application teams.</li> <li>Contribute to organizational technology strategy and long-term infrastructure planning.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Required Qualifications</strong></p> <ul> <li>12+ years of infrastructure, cloud engineering, DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering experience.</li> <li>7+ years of hands-on Kubernetes experience in production environments.</li> <li>Deep expert