# Senior Engineer – Managed Kubernetes Platform

**Company**: Target
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Retail

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## Description

We are looking for a Senior Engineer – Managed Kubernetes Platform to design, build, and operate reliable cloud-native platform capabilities across public cloud, hybrid cloud, and on-premises environments.

In this role, you will own Kubernetes platform components and problem spaces end-to-end, independently solve complex technical and operational problems, and partner with product and engineering teams to deliver secure, scalable, and easy-to-use platform services.

Responsibilities:

- Own Kubernetes platform services or components through design, implementation, deployment, and production operation;

- Build and maintain platform automation, tooling, controllers, and services, primarily using Go (Golang);

- Provision, configure, upgrade, troubleshoot, and optimize Kubernetes clusters and supporting infrastructure across cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments;

- Design and improve Kubernetes networking and connectivity, including CNI, ingress, services, network policies, load balancing, traffic routing, and service-to-service communication;

- Automate infrastructure and platform changes using Infrastructure as Code and Kubernetes tools such as Terraform, Helm, and Kustomize;

- Improve platform observability and operations through useful metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, alerts, health indicators, and service thresholds;

- Design for failure and recovery by establishing clear failure boundaries, applying retries, timeouts, and other appropriate resilience patterns;

- Participate in and independently manage incidents for owned systems, coordinate investigation and resolution, communicate status clearly, and follow through on root-cause analysis and reliability improvements;

- Apply secure-by-default practices to platform services and automation, understand relevant threats, manage secrets appropriately, remediate findings, and work with security and platform partners on effective controls;

- Lead technical discussions within the team and collaborate with partner teams on multi-component designs, integrations, operational improvements, and delivery of platform capabilities;

- Review code and designs with a focus on quality, testability, security, and operational risk;

- Document technical evaluations, decisions, runbooks, and operational procedures.

Required Skills and Experience:

- Strong software development experience in Go (Golang);

- Hands-on experience designing, administering, and operating Kubernetes platforms;

- Experience operating Kubernetes on a public cloud platform;

- Strong understanding of Kubernetes architecture and networking;

- Experience with Infrastructure as Code and Kubernetes configuration or deployment tools;

- Experience implementing GitOps practices;

- Experience with platform observability;

- Working knowledge of Kubernetes storage;

- Demonstrated ability to independently investigate problems and implement durable improvements;

- Ability to communicate technical decisions clearly and collaborate with business and engineering partners.

## Skills

### Required
- Go (Golang)
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- Helm
- Kustomize
- Argo CD
- Flux
- GCP
- GKE
- AWS
- Azure
- Linux

### Nice to have
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
- 5+ years of experience in software engineering
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
- Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)

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