Senior Software Engineer - Platform Operations

Senior Software Engineer - Platform Oppoerations 6 Month Contract to Hire 100% Remote We aim to empower teams to effectively deploy and operate their services. We offer expertise and guidance throughout the delivery lifecycle: building containers, authoring Kubernetes manifests, managing secrets, conducting zero-downtime upgrades, configuring routing, managing costs, and having the observability they need throughout. We also manage the fleet of Kubernetes clusters at Planet, as well as a suite of cross-cutting, shared services such as our API Gateway (through which all customer traffic flows), our shared event/message bus, and GitOps deployment tooling. Impact You''ll Own: * Managing our fleet of Kubernetes clusters and continuing to orchestrate smooth updates, staying on top of new community developments, and upcoming deprecations. * Improving cluster resource utilization and managing costs by informing and assisting service-owners in strategies for maximizing utilization without sacrificing stability. * Participating in an on-call rotation with our other team members. * Authoring technical design documents and architectural decision records. * Authoring runbooks, configuring dashboards, automating alerts, and finding strategies to automate away pain. What You Bring: * You have experience operating and troubleshooting Kubernetes clusters at scale. * You have a deep understanding of the Linux operating system. * You have experience with GCP or other cloud providers, including experience with Terraform or similar technologies such as CloudFormation. * You have experience using monitoring tools such as Prometheus. * You have experience writing Python and/or Golang. * You have familiarity with tools such as jsonnet, kustomize, helm, flux. * You''ve developed, tested, built and deployed, and scaled high-traffic services. * You''ve embraced and practiced principles around the 12-factor app and four golden signals . * You''ve managed networking of a high traffic (thousands to tens of thousands reqs/sec) service using technologies like nginx, Envoy, or HAProxy. * You''re excited about working with a distributed team and are well versed in various synchronous (Slack), asynchronous (E-mail, Jira tickets), and collaborative (Google Docs) systems. * You have a high degree of empathy for your colleagues and an ability to remain composed under pressure. About Infinity Consulting Solutions At Infinity Consulting Solutions our mission is to cultivate successful long term relationships with candidates and clients matching the right candidate with the right client. We believe technology cannot replace the real personal relationships we cultivate. We reject the notion that technology alone is the answer to staffing which is why we our successful partnerships rely on collaboration NOT automation. ICS has been providing flexible staffing solutions for over 20 years in Information Technology, Compliance, Accounting / Finance and Corporate Support. Our staffing solutions include Contract, Temp to Perm and Permanent Placement. ICS is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Created: 2025-11-15