Job Description
KUBERNETES ENGINEER
This is a full-time role in our product organization for an expert in systems design with considerable skill and expertise in large software development. Designs and implements Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) tooling using GitHub Actions / Azure DevOps, and related technologies. This includes defining and implementing build and test pipelines for containerized architectures, infrastructure as code (IaC) for the stateful deployment of environments, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), linting and other code quality controls, gitops and kubernetes pipelines, and managing SaaS deployment APIs.
Individuals in this role will assist in the design, engineering, development, planning and administration of Azure Kubernetes AKS clusters for a set of critical business applications. This role will work closely with application, engineering, security and operations teams to engineer and build Kubernetes and Azure PaaS \& IaaS solutions within an agile and modern enterprise grade operating model. Qualified applicants will have a demonstrated capability to learn new concepts quickly, and/or have robust domain expertise.
Essential Functions
Designing, implementing, and maintaining advanced Kubernetes solutions
Communicating these solutions in a professional way to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Collaborating with other engineers and members of the team using tools like git, in a secure, effective and scalable way
Qualifications
Advanced Kubernetes experience
GitOps (FluxCD, ArgoCD)
Highly experienced with Docker \& Containers and Custom Helm charts
Top notch Linux skills
SRE experience for a mid to large enterprise system
General cloud architecture experience with a major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, GCP) Preferred Azure.
Experience with building Kubernetes Operators a plus
General DevOps Experience a plus
Experience with Custom Controllers, Custom CRD and service mesh.
Software Engineering background is nice to have
Practices, Principles, Techniques
Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD)
Instrumentation strategy and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
Release Communication and Collaboration
Security and Compliance
TDD (Test Driven Development, especially with respect to CI/CD and DevOps
EXAMS / CERTIFICATIONS: (OPTIONAL)
Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert
CKAD and/or CKA certifications