Technology

Platform Engineer- GCP and Kubernetes experience is a must

SonicWallPune🇮🇳IndiaPosted 2 Nov 2026

Why this role stands out

Elevate your career with SonicWall, a leader in cybersecurity, by leveraging your GCP and Kubernetes expertise to drive impactful platform engineering initiatives. This hybrid role offers excellent growth potential and the chance to contribute to innovative solutions within a reputable company. If you're a mid-senior engineer seeking to expand your skills and make a significant contribution, this opportunity is ideal for you.

Quick overview

SeniorityMid Senior

Work modeHybrid

LocationPune, India

GCPPythonTerraformKubernetesLinux

Job description

For more than 30 years, SonicWall has delivered a partner-first unified cybersecurity portfolio that helps SMBs, MSPs, and IT teams consolidate network security, endpoint security, security service edge (SSE), and threat response across hybrid environments. By bringing connected technology, real-time threat intelligence, automation, and expert services together, SonicWall helps organizations simplify security operations, achieve better security outcomes, and lower total cost of ownership. Backed by a global ecosystem of more than 17,000 partners, SonicWall delivers enterprise-grade protection built for SMB and mid-market realities.

For more information, visit www.sonicwall.com or follow us on X, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram.

We’re looking for a highly skilled Platform Engineer to help scale and strengthen our Kubernetes-based production environment. In this role, you’ll take ownership of platform reliability, performance, and observability while working hands-on across Kubernetes, GCP, Terraform, and modern infrastructure automation. You’ll collaborate closely with Engineering and Product teams to influence architecture decisions, solve complex performance challenges, and design resilient, scalable systems that support our growing platform. This is a high-impact role for someone who thrives in technical problem-solving, cares deeply about operational excellence, and enjoys building platforms that engineers love to use.

Responsibilities:

Maintain and extend our Kubernetes platform
Improve Performance & Reliability of our production platform
Ensure proper observability of the production systems
Assist with database and service performance tuning
Collaborate with Development Engineers on impacts of new features
Identify architecture bottlenecks and work with Engineering on new solutions
Experience handling on-call response for public-facing services
Collaborate with Support on operational runbooks

Requirements:

Minimum 3+ years Kubernetes
Operating System: Linux
GCP Cloud experience is mandatory, good to have multi-cloud experience.
Terraform
Container lifecycle
Programming Go, Python or similar
Database optimization
Network level troubleshooting

Education and Experience:
• At least 6 - 8 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 3 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 1 year experience; or equivalent experience preferred.
• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field preferred

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SonicWall is an equal opportunity employer.

We are committed to creating a diverse environment and are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.
At SonicWall, we pride ourselves on recruiting a diverse mix of talented people and providing active security solutions in 100+ countries.

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