Senior Platform Engineer

**Our New Teammate** We are seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to lead the engineering, operation, and evolution of Skyline’s on-premises Kubernetes and secrets management platforms. This role is a senior hands-on technical position responsible for the core services that enable other engineering teams to deploy, run, and secure modern workloads at scale. The engineer in this position will own critical platform capabilities centered on Kubernetes, workload orchestration, and PKI/secrets infrastructure, with a primary focus on expanding Skyline’s Kubernetes footprint from a small number of targeted clusters into a foundational hosting model for a much broader set of production services. This role is ideal for an engineer who wants deep ownership of infrastructure that matters and the opportunity to shape how the organization modernizes application hosting. The Senior Platform Engineer will serve as a key technical driver in scaling Skyline’s on-premises Kubernetes environment, guiding architectural decisions, improving platform reliability and operability, and helping other divisions successfully adopt platform services. This includes direct responsibility for the underlying engineering patterns, operational standards, and service maturity needed to support a significant increase in workload density and organizational dependence on the platform. As part of the Platform Engineering department, this position works across divisional boundaries to provide shared services rather than supporting a single application team. Success in this role requires strong technical judgment, comfort operating foundational production systems, and the ability to translate platform capabilities into practical outcomes for internal stakeholders. The right candidate will combine deep systems expertise with a service-oriented mindset and will play a central role in defining how Skyline delivers Kubernetes-based infrastructure and secure workload orchestration in the years ahead. You can expect to spend your time accomplishing the following: - 50% of the time on Objective 1: Kubernetes and Workload Orchestration Platform Ownership - 25% of the time on Objective 2: PKI, Identity, and Platform Access Services - 25% of the time on Objective 3: Cross-Functional Technical Leadership **Job Responsibilities – What to Expect** - Architect, implement, operate, and scale Skyline’s on-premises Kubernetes platforms used to host shared services and application workloads across the organization. - Administer and improve Kubernetes cluster architecture, node lifecycle practices, platform reliability, and operational standards to support growth in workload scale and organizational dependence on the platform. - Lead the engineering and execution required to expand Kubernetes from its current footprint into a broader hosting model capable of supporting a significantly larger portion of Skyline’s server-based workloads. - Administer and enhance platform services related to PKI, certificate lifecycle management via Hashicorp Vault and Certmanager - Design, implement, and maintain authentication and access patterns for platform and cluster services, including technologies such as OIDC, SAML, SCIM, OAuth2 Proxy, and related identity integrations. - Partner with engineering teams to guide the adoption of reliability and observability best practices. - Define and maintain operational standards for certificate issuance, renewal, trust distribution, and platform authentication services across shared environments. - Collaborate with Platform, Application, Security, and Infrastructure Engineering teams to ensure Kubernetes, PKI, and authentication services are embedded into architecture, operational workflows, and service delivery models. - Provide expert guidance on Kubernetes operations, workload placement, platform scalability, certificate management, authentication patterns, and production-readiness considerations. - Help guide internal adoption of platform services by translat…