Senior Platform Engineer (On-Prem Infrastructure)
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Emumba, a technology company building platforms for AI, cloud, and distributed systems, is hiring a Senior Platform Engineer in Islamabad, Pakistan. This role focuses on designing and operating secure, production-grade on-premises and air-gapped Kubernetes infrastructure. The tech stack includes Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, Kafka, Grafana, Prometheus, and Python. Requires 5+ years of Platform Engineering, DevOps, or SRE experience with strong hands-on Kubernetes, Terraform, and Helm. Offers a remote-first work model across Pakistan, sponsored certifications, and comprehensive health coverage.
- Design, deploy, and maintain Kubernetes-based platforms in on-premises and air-gapped environments.
- Build reusable infrastructure using Terraform and Helm.
- Improve platform scalability, reliability, and operational efficiency.
Operate Distributed Systems
- Deploy and manage distributed infrastructure including Kafka, object storage, messaging platforms, and background processing services.
- Support data platforms such as Spark clusters or Lakehouse architectures where required.
- Ensure high availability, resilience, and disaster recovery across production systems.
Drive Operational Excellence
- Build production-ready CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
- Implement monitoring, dashboards, alerting, and observability using Grafana and Prometheus.
- Improve incident response, operational health, and platform performance.
Champion Security & Engineering Best Practices
- Implement secure deployment pipelines and infrastructure security controls.
- Design access management using RBAC, secrets management, and least-privilege principles.
- Collaborate closely with software engineers to productionize services and continuously improve developer experience.
- 5+ years of Platform Engineering, DevOps, Infrastructure Engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering experience.
- Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes.
- Strong Terraform experience.
- Strong experience creating and maintaining Helm Charts.
- Experience building and operating production CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience deploying and managing production infrastructure in on-premises or air-gapped environments.
- Experience with distributed systems such as Kafka, message queues, or background processing services.
- Experience with Grafana, monitoring, metrics, dashboards, and alerting.
- Experience implementing deployment security, RBAC, access control, and infrastructure security best practices.
- Experience with MinIO or similar object storage solutions.
- Experience deploying API services in production environments.
- Working knowledge of AWS.
- Comfortable writing code for automation and platform tooling (Python preferred).
- Experience with Spark, Lakehouse architectures, or modern data platforms.
- Experience with GitOps tools such as ArgoCD or FluxCD.
- Experience with Azure or Google Cloud Platform.
- Experience building or deploying backend API services.
- Experience supporting AI/ML infrastructure.
- Knowledge of service mesh technologies.
- Experience with distributed storage systems.
- Work on challenging infrastructure problems at production scale.
- Build platforms powering AI, cloud, and distributed systems for global customers.
- Collaborate with experienced engineers across Platform, Cloud, AI, and Backend teams.
- Sponsored certifications and continuous learning opportunities.
- Comprehensive OPD and IPD health coverage.
- Flexible remote-first work model across Pakistan.
About the Company
Most employees today look forward to the Fridays but at Emumba, we strive to create a place where people look forward to the Mondays. Emumba stands out for its exceptional work ethic and culture, offering everything one could hope for in a workplace.
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