Platform Engineer- GCP and Kubernetes experience is a must

Sonicwall
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Who this role is best for

A natural match if you have hands-on Kubernetes and GCP experience.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with 3+ years of Kubernetes and GCP experience, plus a background in infrastructure automation
    — “Kubernetes-based production environment”
  • Individuals who thrive in high-impact technical problem-solving and system design
    — “design resilient, scalable systems that support our growing platform”
  • Professionals with a strong interest in observability and performance tuning of cloud-native systems
    — “Ensure proper observability of the production systems”

Things to consider

  • The role requires a significant time commitment for on-call responsibilities
    — “Experience handling on-call response for public-facing services”
  • Candidates should be prepared to meet substantial experience requirements
    — “At least 6 - 8 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree”

How to stand out

  • Highlight your contributions to improving Kubernetes and GCP platform reliability
    — “take ownership of platform reliability, performance, and observability”
  • Demonstrate experience with Terraform and infrastructure automation in your resume
    — “working hands-on across Kubernetes, GCP, Terraform, and modern infrastructure automation”
  • Showcase collaboration with engineering and product teams on architecture decisions
    — “collaborate closely with Engineering and Product teams to influence architecture decisions”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • Maintain and extend Kubernetes platform
  • Improve performance and reliability of production platform
  • Ensure proper observability of production systems
Typical background
6-8 years of experience in software engineeringDegree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Skills & requirements

Required

KubernetesGCPTerraformLinuxGoPythonDatabase OptimizationNetwork Troubleshooting

Preferred

Multi-cloud Experience

Stack & domain

KubernetesGCPTerraformGoPythonDatabase OptimizationNetwork Level Troubleshooting

About the role

Original posting from Sonicwall via Greenhouse

For more than 30 years, SonicWall has delivered a partner-first unified cybersecurity portfolio that helps SMBs, MSPs, and IT teams consolidate network security, endpoint security, security service edge (SSE), and threat response across hybrid environments. By bringing connected technology, real-time threat intelligence, automation, and expert services together, SonicWall helps organizations simplify security operations, achieve better security outcomes, and lower total cost of ownership. Backed by a global ecosystem of more than 17,000 partners, SonicWall delivers enterprise-grade protection built for SMB and mid-market realities. 

For more information, visit www.sonicwall.com or follow us on X, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram. 

We’re looking for a highly skilled Platform Engineer to help scale and strengthen our Kubernetes-based production environment. In this role, you’ll take ownership of platform reliability, performance, and observability while working hands-on across Kubernetes, GCP, Terraform, and modern infrastructure automation. You’ll collaborate closely with Engineering and Product teams to influence architecture decisions, solve complex performance challenges, and design resilient, scalable systems that support our growing platform. This is a high-impact role for someone who thrives in technical problem-solving, cares deeply about operational excellence, and enjoys building platforms that engineers love to use.

Responsibilities:

Maintain and extend our Kubernetes platform

Improve Performance & Reliability of our production platform

Ensure proper observability of the production systems

Assist with database and service performance tuning

Collaborate with Development Engineers on impacts of new features

Identify architecture bottlenecks and work with Engineering on new solutions

Experience handling on-call response for public-facing services

Collaborate with Support on operational runbooks

Requirements:

Minimum 3+ years Kubernetes

Operating System: Linux

GCP Cloud experience is mandatory, good to have multi-cloud experience.

Terraform

Container lifecycle

Programming Go, Python or similar

Database optimization

Network level troubleshooting

Education and Experience:

  • At least 6 - 8 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 3 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 1 year experience; or equivalent experience preferred. 
  • Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field preferred

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SonicWall is an equal opportunity employer.  

We are committed to creating a diverse environment and are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.

At SonicWall, we pride ourselves on recruiting a diverse mix of talented people and providing active security solutions in 100+ countries.

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