Platform Engineer- GCP and Kubernetes experience is a must
Job description
SonicWall is a cybersecurity forerunner with more than 30 years of expertise and is recognized as a leading partner-first company, ensuring our partners and their customers are never alone in the fight against cybercrime. With the ability to build, scale and manage security across the cloud, hybrid and traditional environments in real-time, SonicWall provides relentless security against the most evasive cyberattacks across endless exposure points for increasingly remote, mobile and cloud-enabled users. With its own threat research center, SonicWall can quickly and economically provide purpose-built security solutions to enable any organization—enterprise, government agencies and SMBs—around the world. For more information, visit www.sonicwall.com or follow us on Twitter, 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
● 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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