Lead Software Engineer - Kubernetes and ArgoCD

Overview

We are looking to hire a Lead Software Engineer specializing in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Cloud Platforms, Kubernetes, and GitOps methodologies. The successful candidate will craft, manage, and scale Kubernetes-based production platforms with a focus on enhancing reliability, automation, observability, and operational excellence for enterprise cloud-native applications.

This position involves close collaboration with Engineering, Product, Infrastructure, and Security teams to develop robust cloud-native solutions based on Kubernetes and to advocate for modern DevOps approaches utilizing ArgoCD, GitOps, and container orchestration best practices.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect, implement, and optimize continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines alongside Kubernetes deployment strategies.
• Construct and maintain highly available, secure, and scalable cloud infrastructures.
• Lead infrastructure automation, manage configuration, and enforce platform standardization.
• Boost developer efficiency by building platform engineering solutions and enabling self-service capabilities.
• Set and uphold reliability frameworks including SLAs and SLOs, steering incident management and driving initiatives for reliability improvements.
• Enhance performance, scalability, availability, and disaster recovery for systems.
• Deploy proactive monitoring, alerting, and observability systems.
• Implement GitOps approaches with ArgoCD for Kubernetes application deployments, automating deployments, environment setup, and configuration management.
• Ensure deployment processes are consistent, secure, and auditable across environments.
• Promote and institutionalize DevOps and GitOps standards across engineering teams.
• Design, deploy, and maintain production Kubernetes clusters on cloud platforms (EKS, AKS, GKE, or equivalents).
• Manage containerized application deployments using Docker and Kubernetes ecosystem tools such as Helm and Kustomize.
• Configure and troubleshoot Kubernetes networking, ingress controllers, storage, autoscaling, and resource allocation.
• Drive cluster health through upgrade planning, capacity assessments, and performance tuning.
• Collaborate with security teams to enforce Kubernetes security best practices like RBAC, network policies, and pod security standards.
• Provide mentorship and technical leadership on DevOps and SRE practices.
• Work flexibly across global teams located in EMEA and US time zones.

Candidate Profile

• 8 to 10 years of relevant experience in Software Engineering, DevOps, Platform Engineering, or SRE roles.
• In-depth hands-on expertise in DevOps, SRE, CI/CD processes, and infrastructure automation.
• Experience applying GitOps models leveraging ArgoCD.
• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes cluster architecture and administration, Docker, microservices, and cloud platforms including AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
• Proven ability to deploy and maintain Kubernetes clusters in production enterprise settings.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes tooling such as Helm, Kustomize, kubectl, and cluster management solutions.
• Experience in container orchestration patterns and cloud-native microservices design.
• Working knowledge of Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform or similar.
• Expertise using monitoring and observability tools including Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Splunk, or ELK stack.
• Strong skills in troubleshooting, production support, and incident response.
• Development experience with automation scripts using Python, Shell scripting, or equivalent technologies.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and leadership capabilities.
• Prior exposure to collaborating with international teams across various time zones.
• Willingness to support global operations across different shifts as needed.

Additional Information

The company values a culture centered on shared core principles that fuel both their own success and that of their customers. They are committed to equal opportunity employment, ensuring all applicants receive fair consideration regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, or protected veteran status.