Senior Kubernetes Platform Engineer

Senior Platform Engineer / Technical Lead with 5+ years in cloud infrastructure and platform engineering, and 17+ years overall in software engineering. Strongest areas include Kubernetes-based infrastructure, Terraform/IaC, CI/CD, observability, production reliability, and platform security. Proven experience leading a migration of multiple services from VM-based infrastructure to Kubernetes, building a Fluent Bit logging pipeline processing around 12 MB/s, and driving Distroless image adoption, reducing image size by about 70% and significantly lowering critical CVEs. Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA). Seeking Senior/Staff Platform Engineer, SRE, DevOps, or Cloud Infrastructure roles focused on reliable infrastructure, internal developer platforms, automation, and observability.