Staff Software Engineer I - Kubernetes,ArgoCD

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 Kuberne .