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Microsoft · 3 days ago

Senior Platform Engineer - Kubernetes

Redmond, WA

Full-time

Remote

Mid, Senior Level

$117K/yr - $229K/yr

4+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Build and maintain infrastructure-as-code for cloud-hosted game services and websites, with a specific focus on improving security across our portfolio.

Develop effective and reusable monitoring and alerting to achieve high availability.

Design and implement processes to securely maintain and update infrastructure across our portfolio.

Collaborate with the team to address security incidents and initiative-driven change requests as they arise.

Troubleshoot and resolve service, website, and infrastructure failures.

Participate in 24x7 on-call rotation.

Qualification

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KubernetesCloud computing (Azure)Infrastructure-as-codeC#PythonGoObservability stack PrometheusObservability stack GrafanaTerraformCI/CD (Azure DevOps)Helm chartsASP.NET CorePHPWordPressApacheKusto Query LanguageREST servicesSoft skills

Required

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C#, Python, Go + OR equivalent experience.

Experience developing and operating Kubernetes clusters and applications deployed on them.

Experience with a cloud computing environment (Azure or others).

Operational Excellence with an observability stack (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, etc.) and automation experience with IaC tools like Terraform, Kubernetes cloud management operators.

Preferred

CI/CD pipeline development experience (Azure DevOps or others).

Demonstrable experience creating or contributing to Helm charts.

ASP.NET Core service development experience.

Website development and/or operations experience, especially with PHP/WordPress/Apache.

Experience using the Kusto Query Language.

Demonstrable experience with Go/Python.

History of game development experience or a passion for online gaming.

Self-motivated and comfortable working in a fast-paced environment.

Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Understanding of and experience with operating REST services.

Company

Microsoft

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Founded in 1975

Redmond, Washington, USA

10,001+ employees

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