Smarsh - Platform Engineer (Hybrid Infrastructure)
Requirements
• 4–7 years of experience in platform engineering, SRE, or infrastructure engineering roles. • Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes (cluster operations, Helm, workload troubleshooting). • Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code tooling, specifically Ansible and/or Terraform in production environments. • Strong Linux systems administration skills (Ubuntu) • Experience with GitOps workflows and CI/CD pipelines at scale. • Experience with VMware vSphere in a production environment. • Demonstrated ability to self-direct and drive projects to completion with minimal oversight. • Comfortable operating in evolving environments where processes and tooling are actively maturing. • Strong communication skills with cross-functional stakeholders. • Experience with one or more of Datadog, Splunk, or ELK for dashboards, monitors, and log management is preffered. • Familiarity with compliance-sensitive or regulated industry infrastructure (financial services, healthcare, or similar) is preffered. • Experience with ArgoCD, Flux, or similar GitOps continuous delivery tooling is preffered. • Familiarity with Jenkins or Concourse for CI/CD pipeline management is preffered. • Familiarity with VMware Kubernetes Service (VKS) or other VMware-native Kubernetes platforms is preffered. • Python scripting for automation and tooling is preffered. • Prior experience in an on-call rotation with a defined SLA structure is preffered.
Responsibilities
• How will you contribute? • Own Kubernetes platform operations, including cluster health, workload deployments, scaling, and incident response. • Design, implement, and operate infrastructure automation using Ansible, Terraform, and GitOps workflows (ArgoCD / Flux) • Lead migration projects moving on-premises workloads toward One Smarsh (cloud-native) platform services. • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (CircleCI, GitHub Actions) for infrastructure and application delivery. • Drive observability improvements across Datadog, Splunk, and ELK, including dashboards, alert tuning, and SLO/SLA definition. • Participate in the on-call rotation, responding to P1/P2 incidents; the team rotates on-call roughly every 4-6 weeks and performs scheduled overnight maintenance windows a few times per year. • Support security and compliance requirements, including patch management, access controls, and audit readiness for regulated workloads. • Contribute to runbooks and operational documentation as systems are built and changed • Collaborate with other Smarsh platform teams on the build and adoption of a One Smarsh platform. • $120,000 - $160,000 a year • The above salary range represents Smarsh's good faith and reasonable estimate of the range of possible base compensation at the time of posting. • Any applicable bonus programs will be discussed during the recruiting process. • The salary for this role will be set based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to, internal equity, experience, education, location, specialty and training. Local cost of living assessments are done for each new hire at the time of offer.
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