Senior Platform Engineer

Job ID 2026-19099 Date posted 17/09/2026 Location Bengaluru, India Category IT

We are seeking an experienced Platform Engineer to join our Engineering IT organization. In this role, you will play a key part in evolving Arm's Kubernetes platform and Hybrid Cloud infrastructure services, enhancing the developer and engineering user experience while ensuring the platform remains secure, reliable, and scalable across both public cloud and on-premises environments.

As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will be responsible for running Arm's Kubernetes platform services across public and private cloud environments. You will develop and implement platform capabilities, automation, and operational tooling that improve the reliability, scalability, security, and maintainability of the platform. Working across the full platform lifecycle, you will support cluster provisioning, upgrades, maintenance, observability, and workload enablement, ensuring Arm's engineering teams can efficiently deploy and own a diverse range of applications and compute-intensive workloads.

Responsibilities

• Build, develop, and maintain Arm's Kubernetes platform management/control pane services and workload cluster services.
• Develop and improve automation, self-service capabilities, and Infrastructure-as-Code solutions for cluster provisioning and lifecycle management.
• Operate Kubernetes clusters across public cloud and private cloud environments, including upgrades, patching, maintenance, and operational support.
• Improve platform reliability, scalability, observability, and security through engineering standards and automation.
• Support diverse workload requirements and collaborate with engineering teams to enhance platform capabilities and developer productivity.
• Solve complex platform issues, perform root cause analysis, and implement long-term improvements.
• Contribute to platform architecture, technical roadmaps, and engineering standards.
  
  

Required Skills And Experience

• Confirmed experience building and operating large scale distributed systems and/or operating multiple large Kubernetes clusters in production environments.
• Solid understanding of Kubernetes architecture and its broader tools ecosystem, with experience in Linux administration, networking, storage, security, and end-to-end cluster lifecycle management.
• Experience with public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud) and private cloud (VMware and OpenStack) infrastructure.
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform, Pulumi, or similar technologies.
• Software development and automation experience using languages such as Go, Python, or similar.
• Experience with CI/CD and GitOps tooling such as Argo CD, Flux, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Jenkins.
• Experience with observability solutions such as Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and centralized logging platforms.
• Ability to work effectively in a collaborative, globally distributed engineering environment.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills and excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Curious and willingness to learn new and evolving technologies and fast experimentation and prototyping.
  
  

Nice To Have Skills And Experience

• Experience handling the lifecycle of Kubernetes clusters at scale, involving system updates, patch application, ongoing servicing, and debugging across multiple cloud and on-premises environments!
• Familiarity with Cluster API, OpenShift, Rancher, or similar cluster management technologies.
• Experience contributing to open-source cloud-native projects.
• Kubernetes certifications such as CKA, CKAD, or CKS!
  
  

In Return

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Accommodations at Arm

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Hybrid Working at Arm

Arm's approach to hybrid working is designed to create a working environment that supports both high performance and personal wellbeing. We believe in bringing people together face to face to enable us to work at pace, whilst recognizing the value of flexibility. Within that framework, we empower groups/teams to determine their own hybrid working patterns, depending on the work and the team's needs. Details of what this means for each role will be shared upon application. In some cases, the flexibility we can offer is limited by local legal, regulatory, tax, or other considerations, and where this is the case, we will collaborate with you to find the best solution. Please talk to us to find out more about what this could look like for you.

Equal Opportunities at Arm

Arm is an equal opportunity employer, committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal opportunities are available to all applicants and colleagues. We are a diverse organization of dedicated and innovative individuals, and don't discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.