Senior Staff Engineer

Why Zensar?
We’re a bunch of hardworking, fun-loving, people-oriented technology enthusiasts. We love what we do, and we’re passionate about helping our clients thrive in an increasingly complex digital world. Zensar is an organization focused on building relationships with our clients and with each other—and happiness is at the core of everything we do. In fact, we’re so into happiness that we’ve created a Global Happiness Council, and we send out a Happiness Survey to our employees each year. We’ve learned that employee happiness requires more than a competitive paycheck, and our employee value proposition—grow, own, achieve, learn (GOAL)—lays out the core opportunities we seek to foster for every employee. Teamwork and collaboration are critical to Zensar’s mission and success, and our teams work on a diverse and challenging mix of technologies across a broad industry spectrum. These industries include banking and financial services, high-tech and manufacturing, healthcare, insurance, retail, and consumer services. Our employees enjoy flexible work arrangements and a competitive benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, 401(k), among other benefits. If you are looking for a place to have an immediate impact, to grow and contribute, where we work hard, play hard, and support each other, consider joining team Zensar!
About the Role
Zensar is looking for a Senior Staff Platform Engineer / Principal Platform Engineer (Kubernetes & Cloud Infrastructure) to serve as the technical authority for our Kubernetes-based compute platform, owning it from design through ongoing evolution. This platform underpins the security, networking, efficiency, and developer-experience capabilities our Cloud Infrastructure organization provides and keeps behavior consistent across multiple cloud providers. Your work will give infrastructure, and product teams a reliable, scalable, and secure foundation for shipping high-quality features at scale.
This is a hybrid opportunity requiring three days onsite per week in Morrisville, North Carolina. The position is open to both full-time employees (FTE) and contract professionals, offering competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits for eligible employees, and excellent career growth opportunities.
What You'll Do
Lead the technical direction of high-visibility, high-impact initiatives
Mentor and guide a geographically distributed engineering team
Identify and deliver improvements that lower the cost of running the cloud platform
Bring teams into alignment on objectives, expected outcomes, and delivery schedules
Own prioritization, timelines, and delivery commitments for your projects
Help shape the long-range, multi-year roadmap for the cloud platform
Architect, build, test, ship, operate, and continuously improve the compute platform
What You Bring
Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in Computer Science or a related discipline, or comparable professional experience
Experience working in infrastructure engineering
Deep experience with at least one major public cloud GCP, AWS or Azure and its core infrastructure services, such as EC2
Expert-level, hands-on Kubernetes engineering skills, including:
Developing custom Kubernetes controllers
Designing and implementing admission webhooks
A track record of defining technical strategy and landing large, cross-team projects
A strong commitment to efficiency, availability, quality, and great developer experience
Nice to Have
Prior work at cloud-native, DevOps, or infrastructure-centric companies operating Kubernetes in production at scale
Advanced Golang skills
Handson experience with Istio or Envoy
Interested?
Apply or reach out directly to discuss how your experience aligns with this opportunity.
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Skills
Golang, AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes