Sr Platform Engineer

Join Vonage and help us innovate cloud communications for businesses worldwide
Why This Role Matters
As a Sr. Site Reliability/Platform Engineer on the
Platform Engineering Team
, you'll help build and manage Kubernetes-based internal platforms that power our production APIs. Your work will streamline developer workflows, reduce manual toil, and support high availability, scalability, and cost efficiency all through modern GitOps practices. You'll collaborate with a skilled, cross-functional team to solve real engineering challenges and deliver impactful solutions.

Your Key Responsibilities
In this position you'll actively seek out ways to contribute and bring new ideas. You will have the opportunity to extensively utilize open source projects/software, often focusing on developing the 'glue' that integrates systems and enhancing their feature sets. Bringing a sense of vision and contributing to the requirements is expected and encouraged.

What You'll Bring

• Bachelor's degree in a STEM field with 5+ years of experience in cloud engineering and software development.
• Strong coding skills in languages like Python, Go, Shell Script, or Ruby.
• Proven experience automating Kubernetes infrastructure using tools like Terraform and Crossplane.
• Deep understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) on AWS and/or GCP with multi-cloud integration.
• Hands-on experience with Cloud SDKs (AWS/GCP) to build self-service infrastructure capabilities.
• Solid knowledge of Unix/Linux internals, networking, and large-scale cloud-native platforms.
• Familiarity with K8s managed services (EKS/GKE) and tools like Argo, Helm, Ansible, and the CNCF ecosystem.
• Experience managing Backstage - both hosting and creating plugins - Good to have
• Familiarity with GCP, especially Cloud Run Functions

Required

• Expertise in building platform tooling in Kubernetes, developing architecture patterns and templates for application runtimes, K8s cluster topology, traffic shaping, API, CI/CD, and observability stacks on AWS or GCP cloud.
• Familiarity with the CNCF tooling across the ecosystem
• Focus iteratively on a FinOps strategy to improve utilization and lower costs
• Exposure to any observability platforms using open-source tools like VictoriaMetrics, Thanos, Cortex, Prometheus, Datalog and Grafana
• Upstream contribution in open source project.

How You'll Benefit

• Attractive Discretionary Time Off
• Private Medical Insurance with optional dependent coverage
• Educational Assistance Reimbursement Program
• Opportunities for reimbursement for conferences, trainings, and other personal development events
• Maternity and Paternity Leave
• Ask recruiter for country specific information

There's no perfect candidate.
You don't need all the preferred qualifications to make a valuable impact on our team. Our employees and customers come from diverse backgrounds, so if you're passionate about what you could achieve at Vonage, we'd love to hear from you.

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Who We Are
Vonage is a global cloud communications leader. And your talent will further help brands - such as Airbnb, Viber, WhatsApp, and Snapchat - accelerate their digital transformation through our fully programmable-based unified communications, contact center solutions, and communications APIs. Ready to innovate? Then join us today.

Note: The purpose of this profile is to provide a general summary of essential responsibilities for the position and is not meant as an exhaustive list. Assignments may differ for individuals within the same role based on business conditions, departmental need or geographic location.