Lead Engineer - Managed Kubernete
Target
Bangalore,IndiahybridPosted 1 month ago
Skill Required
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Key highlights
- Role: Lead Engineer – Kubernetes Platform at Target
- Required: 10+ years of experience in software, cloud, platform, or infrastructure engineering (preferred qualification)
- Key requirement: Strong software development experience in Go (Golang) and extensive hands-on Kubernetes platform experience
- Nice-to-have: Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) and/or Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) certification
- Focus areas: reliability, scalability, security, and operational excellence across hybrid cloud and on-premises environments
- Key tools: Terraform, Helm, Kustomize, Argo CD, Flux, and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
Role overview
Working at Target means helping all families discover the joy of everyday life, brought to life through the company's values and culture. Target is hiring a Lead Engineer – Kubernetes Platform who will serve as the technical anchor for the engineering team supporting a product, owning the application architecture and driving architectural changes to accelerate feature development and improve quality of service. This role requires extensive platform engineering experience in designing, building, automating, and operating cloud-native platforms, with deep expertise in Kubernetes, cloud-native technologies, and platform automation across hybrid cloud and on-premises environments.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the technical anchor for the engineering team that supports a product
- Create, own, and be responsible for the application architecture that best serves the product in its functional and non-functional needs
- Identify and drive architectural changes to accelerate feature development or improve the quality of service (or both)
- Stand up an architecture in its whole on your own when needed
- Influence a wider team by acting as a "force multiplier"
- Design, build, automate, and operate Kubernetes platform services across hybrid cloud and on-premises environments
- Develop platform tooling, controllers, and automation using Go (Golang)
- Design, implement, and manage GitOps and CI/CD workflows to automate application and infrastructure deployments across multi-cluster Kubernetes environments
- Manage, optimize, and scale Kubernetes clusters, including Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), and the supporting cloud infrastructure
- Drive platform observability, reliability, security, resiliency, and operational excellence
- Lead platform initiatives including Kubernetes upgrades, cluster migrations, networking enhancements, storage architecture, scalability improvements, and platform modernization
- Define platform architecture, engineering standards, and long-term technical strategy
- Partner with engineering teams to deliver secure, scalable, resilient, and self-service cloud-native platform capabilities
- Serve as a technical subject matter expert, mentor engineers, and influence engineering best practices across teams
- Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to define platform roadmaps and balance product requirements with long-term platform sustainability
Requirements
- Strong software development experience in Go (Golang)
- Extensive hands-on experience designing, administering, and operating Kubernetes platforms, including cluster provisioning, configuration, upgrades, troubleshooting, and production operations
- Strong experience running Kubernetes on public cloud platforms; experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) is preferred; equivalent experience with AWS, Azure, or other public cloud platforms is also acceptable
- Deep understanding of Kubernetes architecture and networking, including CNI plugins, ingress controllers, services, network policies, load balancing, traffic routing, and service connectivity
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Kubernetes deployment tools such as Terraform, Helm, and Kustomize
- Experience implementing GitOps practices using tools such as Argo CD and/or Flux
- Strong understanding of CI/CD automation and modern software delivery practices for Kubernetes platforms
- Experience with observability solutions, including metrics, logging, monitoring, alerting, distributed tracing, and platform reliability
- Experience administering Linux operating systems and optimizing container host environments
- Experience with Kubernetes storage technologies, including CSI drivers, Persistent Volumes (PV), Persistent Volume Claims (PVC), Storage Classes, StatefulSets, and disaster recovery strategies
- Strong automation-first mindset with experience managing infrastructure and platform services as code using version control, GitOps, and Infrastructure as Code practices
Nice to have
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) and/or Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) certification
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering, cloud engineering, platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, or a related field
Additional details
- Target's vision is helping all families discover the joy of everyday life, brought to life through Target's values and culture
- Core responsibilities of the lead engineer job are described within the job description
- Job duties may change at any time due to business needs
- The role provides technical leadership in evolving Target's Kubernetes platform across hybrid cloud and on-premises environments