APN Consulting, Inc. · 23 hours ago
Senior Platform Engineer – Kubernetes & Middleware Platforms
Jersey City, NJ
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
15+ years expAPN Consulting, Inc. is a progressive IT staffing and services company offering innovative business solutions to improve client business outcomes. They are seeking a strategic technologist and Kubernetes/Container platform engineer to lead and scale their Kubernetes container platform and middleware stack.
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Responsibilities
Design and implement infrastructure abstractions and APIs that simplify deploying AI workloads using Kubernetes-native operations and GitOps patterns
Architect, deploy, and manage Kubernetes platforms (AWS EKS and Red‐Hat OpenShift) across different environments
Implement GitOps workflows with ArgoCD to manage declarative app deployments
Design and operate middleware infrastructure: Highly available Kafka clusters (mirroring, partitioning, tooling), Managed Redis Enterprise clusters (sharding, high‐availability, replication), 3Scale API Gateway development and administration
Build and manage helm charts, templating, parameterization, and versioning for both platform and middleware stacks
Enforce container security and policy governance using policies-as-code tools (e.g. OPA, Kyverno), scanning (e.g. Clair, Snyk), and automated admission controls
Implement network policies (Kubernetes NetworkPolicy / Calico) to enforce segmentation and micro‐segmentation
Configure and manage service mesh (e.g. Istio, Linkerd) for observability, traffic controls, and secure service‐to‐service communication
Conduct capacity planning, cluster sizing, resource tuning, and autoscaling strategies
Conduct architecture reviews, train engineers, and drive platform best practices across teams
Partner with SREs to define platform SLAs, uptime targets, resilience benchmarks, and alerting/monitoring
Lead incident response and root cause analysis, automating recovery workflows and improving platform resiliency
Qualification
Required
15+ years of overall engineering experience, including: At least 8+ years with Kubernetes platforms (EKS, OpenShift) in production
Experienced in managing streaming and caching infrastructure at scale (Kafka, Redis Enterprise Clusters)
Prior hands-on administration or development of API Management / Gateway platforms - preferably Red Hat 3Scale
Demonstrated ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams to deploy AI workloads on Kubernetes or cloud-native platforms
Deep knowledge of DevSecOps principles, container security, governance, and compliance in enterprise environments
Strong automation experience: Helm, GitOps, ArgoCD, IaC (Terraform/AWS-CloudFormation/Ansible)
Experience configuring service mesh, network policy controls, and multi-tenancy in Kubernetes
Demonstrated expertise in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, Groovy, or equivalent; hands‐on experience developing automation tooling, custom Kubernetes operators/controllers, or other platform‐level integrations. A candidate with a software development background or experience building production-grade automation frameworks is strongly preferred
Thorough understanding of core Kubernetes concepts, and observability tooling
Demonstrated experience in capacity planning, cluster sizing, and performance tuning for critical infrastructure
Strong troubleshooting skills across Kubernetes, middleware, and distributed systems; experienced in leading incident response and root cause analysis
Preferred
EKS and/or OpenShift administration certification (CKA, AWS Certified Kubernetes Administrator, Red Hat Certified OpenShift Administrator, or equivalent)
Knowledge of middleware architecture for high-throughput, low-latency messaging systems
Experience with cloud cost optimization, chargeback models
Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions), alerting (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/Splunk or similar tools/platforms)
Familiarity with CNCF ecosystem tools and emerging trends in platform engineering and cloud-native environment
Company
APN Consulting, Inc.
APN Consulting, Inc. is a technology and talent solutions company helping enterprises maximize the value of their IT investments.
201-500 employees
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