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Core Competencies
Role fitCore Competencies
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Demonstrates expertise in managing infrastructure engineering teams, particularly in Kubernetes and cloud environments. Capable of fostering innovation, ensuring platform stability, and driving impactful delivery through effective people management and technical leadership.
Highest-signal resume keywords
Kubernetes ManagementCloud Infrastructure (AWS, GCP)Distributed SystemsKafka at ScaleInfrastructure as Code (Terraform, GitOps)
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Hard Skills
Kubernetes InternalsNetworking and Service MeshDesign Document ReviewIncident Management PracticesObservability Pipelines (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus)
Soft Skills
People ManagementCollaborationCuriosityDesire to LearnRelationship Management
Tools & Technologies
TerraformArgoCDIstioEnvoyCilium
Industry Keywords
DevOpsSREInfrastructure EngineeringPlatform EngineeringCloud Computing
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesAWSCloudDistributed SystemsGoogle Cloud PlatformKafkaKubernetesMySQLPostgresPrometheusTerraform
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Lead a team of infrastructure platform engineers with a tech lead partner
- Own people management, team operations, delivery, and commitments
- Challenge technical designs and participate in design reviews
- Help set the vision with the director and shape the group's organization as it grows
- Lead work across Kubernetes compute, Kafka, networking, and observability
- Conduct 1:1s and planning with the team
- Review designs with the tech lead
- Analyze production learnings, incidents, alerts, and on-call feedback
- Collaborate with R&D teams, the director, and sister groups
- Develop engineers and future technical leads
- Hire engineers to a high standard
- Maintain focused execution and re-plan when priorities shift
- Foster innovation and platform improvements
- Keep the platform stable and use production feedback to improve designs
- Define team scope, ownership, priorities, and boundaries
- Use load, incident, on-call cost, and delivery data to support decisions
- Ensure platform changes are announced, adopted, and owned across teams
Requirements
What you’ll need- Several years of experience managing infrastructure engineers, including platform, DevOps, or SRE engineers
- Experience managing engineers at a company running Kubernetes at large scale through real growth
- Experience with thousands of nodes, many clusters, real traffic, and scaling teams, systems, and processes
- Engineering background in Kubernetes internals
- Experience with cloud infrastructure on AWS or GCP
- Experience with distributed systems
- Experience with Kafka at scale
- Experience with networking and service mesh in production, such as Istio, Envoy, Cilium, or equivalent
- Experience with infrastructure as code and GitOps, such as Terraform, ArgoCD, or equivalent
- Ability to review design documents or Kubernetes operator code
- Ability to provide technical advice to engineers
- Experience introducing lasting delivery, on-call, incident, or definition-of-done practices
- Ability to set boundaries with other teams while maintaining relationships
- Curiosity and willingness to learn unfamiliar domains
- Desire to build and deliver impact
- Hunger, humility, and intelligence
- Advantage: experience leading AI for operations, such as SRE bots, automated triage, or AI-assisted incident response
- Advantage: experience with large observability pipelines, including OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, or OpenSearch
- Advantage: experience with relational databases on RDS, including MySQL or PostgreSQL
- Advantage: experience with self-service or internal platform capabilities adopted by other engineers
Benefits
Comp & perks- Equal opportunity employer
- Culture of innovation and continuous learning
- Encouragement to challenge the status quo and contribute to the shared mission