Staff Software Engineer I - Kubernetes,ArgoCD
- Source: LinkedIn
- Blue Yonder
- On-site
- Full-Time
- Staff
Job Description
Overview
- We are seeking a highly skilled Staff Software Engineer with deep expertise in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Cloud Platforms, Kubernetes, and GitOps practices. This role will architect, scale, and operate enterprise-grade Kubernetes platforms while driving reliability, scalability, automation, and operational excellence across critical enterprise applications and infrastructure.
- The ideal candidate will provide technical leadership on Kubernetes platform strategy, influence engineering best practices, and partner with cross-functional teams to build resilient, secure, and highly available cloud-native platforms at scale. This position requires deep hands-on experience with Kubernetes architecture, ArgoCD, GitOps methodologies, Infrastructure Automation, and Production Engineering.
What You’ll Do DevOps & Platform Engineering
- Design, build, and optimize scalable CI/CD pipelines and Kubernetes-native platform solutions.
- Drive Infrastructure as Code (IaC), automation, and platform standardization initiatives.
- Improve developer experience through self-service infrastructure and deployment automation.
- Lead architecture discussions and establish Kubernetes and DevOps platform standards across engineering teams.
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
- Define and champion reliability standards, SLAs, SLOs, and operational excellence frameworks.
- Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and reliability improvement programs.
- Drive performance optimization, scalability enhancements, capacity planning, and disaster recovery strategies.
- Build proactive monitoring, observability, and alerting capabilities to improve system health and availability.
GitOps & Automation
- Architect and manage GitOps practices using ArgoCD for multi-cluster Kubernetes application delivery.
- Automate application deployment, configuration management, and environment provisioning.
- Establish deployment governance, release management processes, and operational controls.
- Ensure secure, consistent, and auditable deployments across all environments.
Kubernetes & Cloud Infrastructure
- Define and evolve enterprise Kubernetes platform architecture, standards, and multi-cluster/multi-region deployment strategies.
- Design, deploy, and operate production Kubernetes clusters at scale across cloud environments (EKS, AKS, GKE, or equivalent).
- Build and optimize containerized platform solutions using Docker and Kubernetes for high availability and performance.
- Lead adoption of Kubernetes-native tooling including Helm, Kustomize, operators, and service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd, or equivalent).
- Drive cluster lifecycle management including upgrades, autoscaling, capacity planning, disaster recovery, and cost optimization.
- Architect Kubernetes networking, ingress, storage (CSI), CNI, and workload isolation patterns for complex enterprise workloads.
- Establish Kubernetes security frameworks including RBAC, network policies, pod security standards, secrets management, and DevSecOps integration.
- Drive Infrastructure as Code adoption using Terraform or equivalent technologies for cloud and Kubernetes infrastructure.
- Partner with Security and Engineering teams to implement platform governance, compliance, and operational controls.
Technical Leadership & Collaboration
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers across DevOps and platform teams.
- Collaborate with Engineering, Product, Infrastructure, and Security stakeholders to drive strategic initiatives.
- Participate in architecture reviews and technology roadmap discussions.
- Work closely with global teams across EMEA and US regions.
- Demonstrate flexibility to work across overlapping business hours and shifts when required to support global stakeholders and critical production environments.
What We Are Looking For
- 12+ years of experience in Software Engineering, DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).
- Strong hands-on expertise in DevOps, SRE, CI/CD, Infrastructure Automation, and Cloud Engineering.
- Proven experience implementing GitOps practices using ArgoCD.
- Deep expertise in Kubernetes platform architecture, cluster operations, and troubleshooting at enterprise scale, including Docker, Microservices, and Cloud Platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP).
- Proven experience architecting, deploying, and operating large-scale production Kubernetes platforms in enterpris…
Skills
- Kubernetes
- argo-cd
- kubernetes-native
- Docker
- helm
- kustomize
- istio
- linkerd
- aws-auto-scaling
- Terraform
- amazon-web-services
- microsoft-azure
- google-cloud-platform
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- datadog
- splunk
- elk
- new-relic
- Python
- Golang
