Architect and evolve Affirm's EKS platform, driving strategy across cluster lifecycle, node management, and shared cluster components
Lead the technical direction for cluster provisioning, upgrades, and teardown through standardized IaC (Terraform, Spacelift) and self-service workflows
Own the reliability of core shared components across the fleet (Karpenter, CoreDNS, VPC CNI, Kube Proxy, Metrics Server, etc) and the CI/CD pipeline that ships them consistently
Build the enforcement and automation path that moves each standard from research and white-glove onboarding through broad adoption to policy-enforced defaults for new workloads
Establish the observability, baseline audits, and reporting needed to identify hot spots and measure risk mitigation over time
