Platform Engineer

At Nirmata, our mission is to accelerate adoption of cloud native technologies for enterprises. We believe that software can radically transform the world and are building a solution to help enterprises deliver and operate mission critical software at scale. Nirmata is an enterprise-grade multi-cloud Kubernetes platform.

As a Platform Engineer at Nirmata, you will play a key role in operation and lifecycle management of Nirmata’s cloud-native environment delivering SaaS services to customers. You will be implementing necessary tools and processes to deliver a highly available, secure, performant and compliant global SaaS service. You will be collaborating with development, operations and customer success teams to deliver the right solution for Nirmata customers. Your areas of responsibility will span cloud infrastructure builds, CI/CD pipeline, security, performance and availability, monitoring and site reliability engineering. 

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for production and development environment performance and availability. 
• Manage lifecycle of production and development cloud infrastructure, pipelines, security, monitoring and site reliability.
• Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues in production systems.
• Provide design and operational solutions for 
• Manage production and development escalations and work with engineering teams to resolve critical issues.
• Create and update technical documentation of different solutions and processes being implemented in the production and dev environment.
• Build tools and automation for smooth deployment of applications in production and development environments.
• Be a point of escalation to resolve production and development environment issues.
• Assist with scoping efforts for deployments and new integrations.
• Maintain current technical knowledge of relevant technologies, including Nirmata, Kubernetes, virtualization, networking, monitoring, converged infrastructure, and storage networks.
• Responsible for security and compliance of the production and development environments. 

Requirements:

• Bachelor of Arts/Science or equivalent degree in computer science or related field
• 4+ years of professional experience
• Experience with multi-account AWS infrastructure management
• Strong Linux OS administration and management skills
• Proficiency in shell scripting or Python
• Experience with containers, Docker, and Kubernetes
• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• Ability to diagnose complex technical problems and provide solutions
• Broad knowledge in other technical areas to manage complex integration efforts.

Skills:

• Kubernetes, docker, containers.
• AWS cloud - EKS, IAM, networking, storage, 
• Has experience in DevOps methodologies, tools, and automation.
• Linux OS administration and management skills.
• Automation skills with shell scripting or python.
• Experience with technologies like containers, Docker, and Kubernetes.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills to troubleshoot complex technical issues.
• Familiarity with compliance and security management in cloud environments.

ABOUT NIRMATA

Nirmata empowers organizations to innovate rapidly without compromising security or compliance. With Gartner forecasting that 99% of cloud security failures will result from misconfigurations by 2027, Nirmata's policy-as-code platform offers a proactive solution. Nirmata's highly customizable policies seamlessly integrate with your cloud-native environments, ensuring robust governance and security at scale. Trusted by top financial institutions and global enterprises—and with over 3.2 billion downloads of Kyverno, Nirmata's open source policy engine —Kyverno simplifies compliance, mitigates risk, and accelerates the enterprise journey to secure innovation.

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