Who are we?
Smarsh empowers its customers to manage risk and unleash intelligence in their digital communications. Our growing community of over 6500 organizations in regulated industries counts on Smarsh every day to help them spot compliance, legal or reputational risks in 80+ communication channels before those risks become regulatory fines or headlines. Relentless innovation has fueled our journey to consistent leadership recognition from analysts like Gartner and Forrester, and our sustained, aggressive growth has landed Smarsh in the annual Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing American companies since 2008.
You'll be joining the Hosting team, an integral component of the Smarsh Fabric, which is the platform that underpins our enterprise applications. The function is dedicated to enabling self-service, next generation capabilities across the engineering org, ensuring long term sustainability and innovation.
Core Responsibilities
Own and evolve robust runtime environments for enterprise workloads, spanningKubernetes and cloud-native platformsDrive the design and implementation of scalable, secure, and highly available hostingsolutions, primarily built on KubernetesFoster a culture of continuous improvement, automation, and engineering excellenceCollaborate with cross-functional engineering teams and Product Management to alignplatform capabilities with business objectivesEnsure best practices in security, reliability, observability, and performance across the platform estateContribute to strategic planning and help shape the technical roadmap for the Hosting functionAdvocate for and embed platform engineering principles, including self-service, standardization, and automation
Skills & Experience
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience At least 5+ years in Platform teams or strongly DevOps driven organizationsExcellent understanding of cloud platforms (AWS) - especially services such as EKS.Deep hands-on experience with Kubernetes, including cluster architecture, workload management, autoscaling, and production troubleshootingStrong experience across the Kubernetes ecosystem, including Helm, Kustomize, Karpenter and containerization.A solid background in Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform) and maintaining CI/CD driven deployment workflowsProficiency with Git, including repository management, automation, and workflow configuration.Strong scripting skills (e.g. Bash) for automation and operational toolingApplication development experience in Java, with knowledge of Spring Boot considered a significant plusExperience designing and operating Kubernetes clusters at high scale across large, multi cluster environments (e.g. hundreds of clusters)Sound general security awareness and experience embedding security best practices into CI/CD and production platformsExperience designing and operating observability stacks to support large-scale, multi cluster Kubernetes environments - preferably using Grafana/Prometheus.Strong communication and collaboration skills and ability to work effectively with stakeholders across the organizationStrong problem-solving skills and attention to detail
Desirable Skills & Experience
Experience designing and building Kubernetes controllers and operators, including use of controller frameworksGood understanding of RESTful API design principles, with hands-on experience developing and maintaining APIs for internal audiencesExperience implementing and promoting platform engineering practices/culture, including self-service capabilities.Experience working in regulated environments and building compliant workloads is a plus.A software engineering background where you've transitioned into Platform Engineering s of interest.
