Kubernetes Platform Engineer

Role: Kubernetes Platform Engineer
Location: Okemos, MI (Day One onsite/ Hybrid)

Duration: Long term

Rate: Market

Description:

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

• 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)
• 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
• OpenShift experience
• Kubernetes experience

Desired Skills/Qualifications:

• KCNA, CKA, and/or CKAD certification