Engineer, Platform II

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U.S.

Right Role. Right Tools. Right People. We invest in our talent starting on day one. You will be provided with personal and professional development opportunities that complement your interests and encourage you to build a career you’re passionate about. Whether it is employee stock options, profit‑sharing, 401K, professional development, or our competitive pay, we help prepare you for the future. Be part of an organization that values out‑of‑the‑box thinking and rewards employees for going above and beyond.

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• Medical, Dental, and Vision
• Basic/Supplemental Life
• Health Savings Accounts
• Flexible Savings Accounts
• Company Paid Holidays
• Paid Time Off
• 401k with Employer Matching Contribution
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Short Term Incentive Program
• Employee Assistance Program
• Pet Insurance

USX HEADQUARTERS

8:00 am - 5:00 pm

Position open to remote:
Yes

Grade: ES16

Compensation Range: $89,300-$118,900

The Platform Engineer II designs, implements, and manages a hybrid Kubernetes platform spanning on‑premises vSphere infrastructure and AWS cloud. This role is central to the organization's strategic initiative to build a resilient, cost‑effective hybrid environment where containerized workloads can be deployed to either environment seamlessly. The Engineer will build a secure, scalable on‑premises Kubernetes platform (Talos Linux, Cilium, Istio, Flux CD) that operates with architectural parity to the existing AWS EKS environment, enabling workload portability, cross‑environment disaster recovery, and consistent developer experience regardless of deployment target.

The Engineer collaborates with IT architects and leadership on strategic initiatives while working closely with backend, frontend, mobile, and data engineering teams.

• Define and implement the architecture for an on‑premises Kubernetes environment, ensuring high availability, scalability, and security.
• Design and implement a hybrid cloud platform strategy where on‑premises Kubernetes clusters operate with architectural parity to cloud‑based EKS clusters, enabling workload portability and cross‑environment disaster recovery.
• Establish standards and best practices for cluster configuration, networking (Cilium CNI, Istio service mesh), and storage integration (Rook‑Ceph).
• Design and implement disaster recovery strategies including cross‑datacenter Active‑Passive failover, backup and restore with Velero, and cross‑environment (on‑prem to cloud) workload recovery procedures.
• Establish workload classification criteria (stateful vs. stateless) to guide placement decisions across on‑prem and cloud environments.
• Install, configure, and maintain Kubernetes clusters on Talos Linux (immutable, API‑driven OS) and supporting components (Cilium CNI, Istio ambient mesh, Flux CD, cert‑manager).
• Manage RBAC, name spaces, resource quotas, and policies (Kyverno) for governance and security.
• Implement backup and restore strategies for clusters and workloads using Velero with S3 and on‑prem storage targets.
• Manage VMware vSphere infrastructure including VM provisioning, content libraries, resource pools, and datacenter operations.
• Develop automation for cluster provisioning, scaling, and lifecycle management using Terraform, Helm, and Kustomize.
• Manage Git Ops workflows using Flux CD including multi‑repo architectures (bootstrap, cluster orchestration, platform components), Kustomization dependency chains, Helm Release management, and branch‑based environment promotion.
• Integrate Kubernetes with existing infrastructure services and monitoring solutions (Open Telemetry Collector, Prometheus, Grafana).
• Manage CI/CD pipelines using Git Hub Actions (CI) and Octopus Deploy (CD) including variable management, release lifecycle configuration, channel/lifecycle strategies, and multi‑environment promotion workflows.
• Design and implement cross‑environment workload deployment strategies enabling seamless movement of containerized applications between on‑prem and cloud.
• Integrate on‑premises Kubernetes workloads with AWS services using certificate‑based…