Senior Platform Reliability Engineer / Lead SRE

Introduction

We are seeking a Senior Platform Reliability Engineer / Lead SRE with strong experience in Kubernetes and Rancher to support mission-critical production environments. The ideal candidate will improve platform reliability, optimize deployments, enhance observability, and collaborate with development and infrastructure teams to ensure stable, scalable application operations.

Responsibilities

• Improve Kubernetes/Rancher platform reliability and stability
• Optimize Helm deployments and CI/CD pipelines
• Troubleshoot pod crashes, OOMKills, deployment failures, and storage issues
• Implement monitoring, dashboards, alerts, and operational runbooks
• Review Kubernetes manifests and recommend best practices
• Partner with development and infrastructure teams to improve application reliability
• Support production deployments, go-live activities, and steady-state operations

Requirements

Required Skills

• 8+ years of Platform Engineering / DevOps / SRE / Production Operations experience
• Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes (Production)
• Hands-on experience with Rancher managed Kubernetes
• Expertise in Helm, RBAC, Namespaces, PVC/PV, ConfigMaps, Secrets, Ingress
• Troubleshooting OOMKills, Pod Failures, Storage, Networking, DNS & Resource Issues
• CI/CD experience with Azure DevOps and/or Jenkins
• Observability tools: Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, ELK, Datadog, Dynatrace, Azure Monitor
• Scripting using Bash, Python, or PowerShell
• Experience reviewing application architecture for reliability and scalability
• Excellent troubleshooting, documentation, and communication skills

Preferred Skills

• .NET Microservices
• SQL Server
• RabbitMQ on Kubernetes
• vSphere CSI / Enterprise Storage
• API Gateway / Ingress Controllers
• SAP Integration
• Manufacturing / MES / GMP environments