Senior Platform Engineer

Your Job

As a Platform Engineer at Koch Technology you will be a critical part of our mission to transform how we deliver reliable and scalable services across Koch.

We are building an enterprise-wide observability platform that runs on modern, scalable infrastructure.

If you are passionate about designing resilient systems, influencing strategic decisions, and mentoring the next generation of Platform Engineers, this is your opportunity to be part of building something special!

Our Team

The Koch Technology Site Reliability Engineering team is responsible for championing SRE best practices across Koch Technology and partnering with teams on improving service resiliency.

Our team has built and continues to innovate a modern Observability Platform that provides real-time actionable insights that enables our customers to proactively identify and resolve issues.

Location: This role can be located in Wichita, KS / Plano, TX / Atlanta, GA and requires an in office presence with flexibility

This role is not eligible for VISA sponsorship

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 (Basic 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.


* 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



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


* 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 OpenTelemetry experience for generating and collecting traces/metrics.
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