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.
  • Experience deploying and operating Grafana, Loki, Tempo, and Mimir at scale.

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here .

Who We Are

Koch creates and innovates a wide spectrum of products and services that make life better. Our work spans a vast number of industries across the world, including engineered technology, refining, chemicals and polymers, pulp and paper, glass, electronics and many more. Headquartered in Wichita, Kansas, Koch employs about 120,000 employees across the globe.

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here , aquí , or tu ).

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Skills:
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Autoscaling, Best Practices, Cloud Computing, Communication Skills, Continuous Deployment/Delivery, Continuous Integration, Cost Control, Diversity, Electronics, Entrepreneurship, Finance, GitHub, Identify Issues, Incident Response, Jenkins, Mentoring, Metrics, Network Security, Philosophy, Polymers, Problem Solving Skills, Production Management, Reliability Engineering, Reporting Dashboards, Root Cause Analysis, Writing Skills


About the Company:
Koch



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