Cloud Engineer III-Kubernetes
Job Summary
Job Description
Smarsh is seeking a passionate Platform Engineer to join their Fabric API Management group. This role focuses on building and maintaining a Kong-based API Gateway platform that serves as the foundation for secure, scalable, and observable APIs across the enterprise. Responsibilities include developing and analyzing business/technical scenarios to drive executive decision-making, implementing automation for provisioning and monitoring services, creating reusable integrations for third-party tools, and ensuring efficient resource utilization. The engineer will also be responsible for debugging production issues, creating root cause analyses, and participating in an on-call rotation for 24/7 support.
Must have:
- 4-6 years of experience in DevOps/software engineering
- Kubernetes in AWS configuration and maintenance
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/CloudFormation)
- Scripting and automation with Python
- CI/CD pipelines (Concourse/Jenkins/Ansible)
- Observability/telemetry tools (Prometheus/Grafana/ELK)
- Cloud-native tools (Istio/Argo CD)
- Understanding of SRE principles and SLIs/SLOs
Good to have:
- Professional degree in Computer Science
- Experience with distributed tracing
- Experience with performance monitoring
- Experience with External Secrets Operator, Keda, Karpenter
- Excellent problem-solving skills
13 skills required
Job Details
Who are we?
Smarsh empowers its customers to manage risk and unleash intelligence in their digital communications. Our growing community of over 6500 organizations in regulated industries counts on Smarsh every day to help them spot compliance, legal or reputational risks in 80+ communication channels before those risks become regulatory fines or headlines. Relentless innovation has fueled our journey to consistent leadership recognition from analysts like Gartner and Forrester, and our sustained, aggressive growth has landed Smarsh in the annual Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing American companies since 2008.
About the team: The API Management team builds and maintains Smarsh's API Gateway platform that serves as the foundation for secure, scalable, and observable APIs across the enterprise. We provide "as a service" API management capabilities that enable product teams to expose, secure, and monitor their services while ensuring compliance and optimal performance.
For cloud/platform engineer - We are seeking a passionate Platform Engineer to join our Fabric API Management group. Our team combines cloud-native expertise with software engineering to build sophisticated API management solutions that empower Smarsh engineering teams to deliver reliable and secure APIs. We're looking for someone who can help build and evolve our Kong-based API Gateway platform that developers love to use.
Roles & Responsibilities
- Develop and analyze various business and technical scenarios to drive the highest levels of executive decision-making around Observability resources. Drive consensus and decisions with stakeholders.
- Develop and implement automation to provision, configure, deploy, and monitor Observability services.
- Create reusable integrations for third-party tools (e.g., CI/CD systems, monitoring platforms, container registries and many more) to consolidate workflows.
- Communicate risks and progress in a timely manner to reporting supervisor
- Ensure efficient resource utilization and continuously improve processes leveraging automation and internal tools resulting in enhanced Product delivery, maturity, and scalability.
- Support the features delivered by debugging and creating RCA for production issues and subsequently work towards short term and long-term fix
- On-Call Rotation: Participate in an on-call rotation to provide 24/7 support for critical systems.
Required Experience/Skills
- Professional degree in Computer Science from a reputed college with consistent academic record.
- 4-6 years of professional experience in DevOps or software engineering roles, with a focus on configuring, deploying, and maintaining Kubernetes in AWS
- Strong proficiency in infrastructure as code (IaC) using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or similar tools.
- Experience with scripting and automation using languages such as Python
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation tools such as Concourse, Jenkins, or Ansible.
- Experience with teams having delivered observability and telemetry tools and practices, such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, distributed tracing, and performance monitoring.
- Experience with cloud-native tools such as Istio, Argo CD, External Secrets Operator, Keda, Karpenter, etc
- Understanding SRE principles includes monitoring, alerting, error budgets, fault analysis, and automation.
- Concepts of SLI, SLO, SLA, Define SLIs (Service Level Indicators), SLOs (Service Level Objectives), and error budgets.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
About our culture
Smarsh hires lifelong learners with a passion for innovating with purpose, humility and humor. Collaboration is at the heart of everything we do. We work closely with the most popular communications platforms and the world’s leading cloud infrastructure platforms. We use the latest in AI/ML technology to help our customers break new ground at scale. We are a global organization that values diversity, and we believe that providing opportunities for everyone to be their authentic self is key to our success. Smarsh leadership, culture, and commitment to developing our people have all garnered Comparably.com Best Places to Work Awards. Come join us and find out what the best work of your career looks like.
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