102608 - SRE

Summary

The Purple Platform Engineer – SRE is a hybrid engineering role combining Site

Reliability Engineering excellence, cloudnative software engineering expertise,

and deep knowledge of our internal Purple Platform, HealthEquity’s cloudnative

application delivery ecosystem.

Responsibilities

• You will design, build, and operate highly reliable systems while enabling product teams to selfserve, deploy, and operate applications securely and efficiently—aligned with the platform’s core tenets: GitOps integration, and cloudnative operational excellence.
• This role requires an engineer who thrives in modern DevOps environments, understands distributed systems deeply, writes high-quality code, and can translate platform guardrails and policies into a world class developer experience.

Required Expert Skills & Technical Experience

 CloudNative Ecosystem

• Strong Kubernetes expertise (workloads, scaling, networking, operators, CRDs).
• Advanced containerization practices (Docker multi-stage, security hardening).
• Hands On Experience implementing service mesh (ISTIO) and API gateways
• (Kong).
• Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform).
• Understanding and ability to configure and troubleshoot MongoDB collections,
• Redis Cache, Azure Service Bus, Azure Document Storage etc.

 Software Engineering Core

• Strong background in C#, Python and/or Node.js.
• Ability to build highly reliable distributed applications and automation tools.
• Building CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with AI Assisted development to improve quality and productivity

 GitOps & Platform Delivery

• Deep understanding of declarative deployment workflows (Argo CD, Flux).
• Expertise in Helm, Kustomize, deployment manifests, and environment modeling.
• Experience integrating automated tests, scans, and policy controls into Git workflows—supporting the platform’s “shift-left feedback and shift-right enforcement” model.

 Observability & Monitoring

• Strong experience with configuring and using Dynatrace for observability, setting up OpenTelemetry integrations, App Insights
• Competence using Kusto (KQL), analyzing logs, distributed traces, and performance metrics.
• Incident response leadership, postmortem writing, error budget management.

 Security & Governance

• Familiarity with container scanning, supply chain security, SBOM tools.
• Experience applying and troubleshooting policies for security and using secure
• secret management (Vault/KMS).
• Configuring and implementing Managed Identities for secure authentication
• Understanding of compliance frameworks relevant to healthcare systems.

 Developer Tooling & Automation

• Building internal tools, CLIs, templates, plug-ins that improve velocity.
• Knowledge of Backstage or internal developer portals is a plus.
• Strong scripting skills (Bash, PowerShell, Python, Go utilities).

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ Years Experience in large-scale, enterprise-grade cloud native platforms.
• Previous work in SRE, Platform Engineering, DevOps, or Production Engineering roles.
• Experience with self-service portals and cloud resource orchestration.
• Familiarity with classification-driven policy models and governance automation.