Senior Kubernetes Platform Engineer

Quick Facts

• Role: Senior Kubernetes Platform Engineer (Day-2 operations)

Description

As a Senior Kubernetes Platform Engineer, you will maintain the stability, reliability, and operational health of production Kubernetes environments. You will act as the primary Day-2 operator by leading incident response, overseeing patching and node maintenance, and ensuring resilience through proactive monitoring, troubleshooting, and continuous operational improvements.

Responsibilities

• Own incident intake, monitoring triage, and alert handling across tools such as Icinga, Checkmk, Grafana, and other operational systems.

• Perform first-line incident response: validation, troubleshooting, evidence collection, and escalation management.

• Diagnose cluster and node issues using tools such as K9s, Kibana, SSH, logs, events, and monitoring platforms.

• Build evidence packs and collaborate with virtualization, network, storage, Linux, and application teams to resolve complex issues.

• Supervise weekly patching, including post-patch health validation and service verification.

• Manage Kubernetes node lifecycle tasks (cordon/uncordon, readiness validation, service checks).

• Resolve recurring infrastructure issues related to storage, filesystems, disk utilization, and node health.

• Maintain and improve incident runbooks, operational procedures, troubleshooting guides, and maintenance validation checklists.

Requirements

• Extensive experience as a Kubernetes, SRE, Platform, or Operations Engineer with strong Linux administration and debugging skills.

• Strong hands-on expertise in Kubernetes operations (node maintenance, patching, production support).

• Experience with monitoring, logging, observability, and incident management tools in mission-critical environments.

• Ability to investigate complex incidents and differentiate transient warnings from real service outages.

• Knowledge of troubleshooting across infrastructure layers: Linux, networking, storage, virtualization, and platform services.

• Experience making risk-based operational decisions during maintenance windows and production incidents.

• Strong communication and collaboration skills with cross-functional technical teams.

• Background in DevOps, Platform Engineering, Cloud technologies, and participation in on-call support for critical incidents.

Benefits

• Yearly financial bonus.

• Private medical care with Medicover (additional packages such as dental, senior care, and oncology on preferential terms), life insurance, and access to the NAIS benefit platform.

• Access to 70+ training tracks with certification opportunities via the NEXT platform.

• Hybrid working model: work from a modern office after onboarding with ergonomic work-from-home support (home office package including laptop, monitor, and chair).