Lead Platform Engineer

Job description

**Key Responsibilities:** Reliability & Operations - Design, implement, and maintain highly available and resilient systems in Kubernetes-based environments - Define and enforce SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets - Lead incident response, RCA, and postmortems - Drive reliability improvements through automation **Observability (Core Focus)** - Architect and operate observability platforms for metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting - Work with Prometheus, Alertmanager, OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Loki / ELK / OpenSearch - Implement cloud-native monitoring (GCP Cloud Monitoring & Logging preferred) - Establish actionable alerting standards **Cloud & Platform Engineering** - Build and manage infrastructure on GCP (preferred) or AWS - Operate Kubernetes clusters (GKE preferred) - Deploy services using Helm - Manage containerized workloads using Docker Automation & Tooling - Strong Python skills with emphasis on reliability, automation, and observability tooling - Develop automation and tooling using Python - Create internal reliability and monitoring tools - Integrate CI/CD pipelines with observability and reliability checks **Collaboration & Leadership** - Mentor junior engineers - Influence architecture decisions - Collaborate across engineering teams