Kubernetes Platform Engineer

Role: Kubernetes Platform Engineer

Duration: Long term
Rate: Market

Manager Note: Candidates with Kubernetes experience on the resume as managed Kubernetes solution utilizing (AKS, EKS, OpenShift, etc) will not work. I'm looking for someone with more in depth knowledge of Kubernetes at a high level of expertise. Our current environment is all managed without a management plane that you'd find in a public K8s as a service offering.

Job Description:

• Please vet the candidates and provide a skill rating below along with their resumes. It is expected that you will confirm the identity and background of the candidates that you present.
• Contributes to the design and implementation of a software engineering culture that unifies Application Development and Operations. Will assist in engineering solutions that maximize the throughput of code releases through automated, secure and portable tools and functions.

Responsibilities:

• Participates in the analysis, design and development of technical specifications, programming, and testing of DevOps components.
• Participates in design and scripting reviews to ensure that design and enterprise programming standards and guidelines are followed. Assist with creating or updating the enterprise standards when gaps are identified.
• Assists team members in issue resolution, scalability metrics, integration issues, and critical production issues as required.
• Follows technology best practices and standards and escalates any issues as they deem appropriate. Follows architecture and design best practices (as guided by the Senior Engineer, Lead DevOps Engineer & Architectural team)
• Responsible for assisting in configuration and scripting to implement fully automated infrastructure provisioning, image builds, and instance deployment capabilities.
• Follows standard change control and configuration management practices.
• Participates in 24-hour on-call rotation in support of the platform.

Required Skills/Qualifications

• Drive and desire to automate repeatable processes
• Excellent interpersonal skills and communication, as well as the willingness to collaborate with teams across the organization
• Experience in DevOps practices, infrastructure, scripting/programming.
• Linux/Unix OS experience
• Kubernetes experience

Desired Skills/Qualifications

• KCNA, CKA, and/or CKAD certification
• Experience working with Kubernetes in an Enterprise environment
• Working knowledge of cloud technologies (eg. OpenStack, Azure, AWS, etc.), container concepts (eg. Docker), infrastructure deployment tools (eg. Ansible, Chef, Terraform), CI/CD tools (eg. ArgoCD, Jenkins, GitHub Actions)