About the role

Senior Platform Engineer'

Your Job

Koch Technology is on a mission to transform how we deliver reliable, scalable services across Koch. We’re hiring a Senior Platform Engineer to help build this capability from the ground up—modernizing legacy monitoring tools and practices while establishing a strong foundation for the future.

This transformation is about more than technology. It’s about fostering a culture of reliability, accountability, and automation that empowers teams to move faster with confidence. If you’re passionate about designing resilient systems, influencing strategic direction, and mentoring the next generation of SREs, this is your opportunity to make a lasting, enterprise-wide impact.

Our Team You’ll be part of a dynamic and forward-thinking team at Koch Capabilities, collaborating across engineering, IT, and business functions to build scalable, observable, and resilient systems that support Koch’s global operations.

What You Will Do

• Develop, operate, and expand platforms running enterprise grade observability solutions.

• Build and maintain containerized workloads and Kubernetes infrastructure on AWS EKS. '

• Implement and iterate CI/CD pipelines and GitOps flows using GitHub Actions and ArgoCD for secure, repeatable deployments.

• Author and maintain Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) for cloud infrastructure and platform components.

• Lead incident response, root-cause analysis, and post-incident improvement plans

. • Mentor and develop engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and growth.

Who you are (required qualifications)

• Hands-on experience architecting, deploying, and managing production level Kubernetes clusters.

• Practical experience implementing CI/CD and GitOps deployments with tools like GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Jenkins, etc.

• Strong IaC experience (i.e. Terraform): writing modules, state management, lifecycle, and collaboration patterns.

Solid understanding of observability fundamentals: metrics, logging, tracing, alerting, and dashboarding.

• Familiar with core observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, or equivalent).

• Familiarity with AWS services commonly used with EKS (IAM, VPC, ELB/NLB, EBS, CloudWatch).

• Clear communicator able to work across technical and non-technical stakeholders and mentor peers

What will put you ahead (preferred)

• Background building reusable Terraform module libraries.

• Experience managing multiple enterprise clusters with Rancher.

• Knowledge of cluster autoscaling, multi-cluster architectures, and cost optimization on EKS.

• Cross-domain experience (networking, security, finance or product) that helps influence broader decisions.

• Experience managing large Kafka deployments.

• Hands-on Open Telemetry experience for generating and collecting traces/metrics.

• Experience deploying and operating Grafana, Loki, Tempo, and Mimir at scale

Join Us and Shape the Future of Reliability Engineering This role is more than just engineering about driving a transformation in how we deliver reliable, scalable, and observable services. If you’re excited about the opportunity to build and influence a modern capability from the ground up, we want to hear from you!