Kubernetes Engineer

What You’ll Do

We are looking for a dedicated and experienced Kubernetes Engineer to join our Open Shift/Kubernetes Platform team. In this role, you will be at the forefront of our cloud-native strategy, collaborating with a talented team of engineers responsible for the reliability, scalability, and performance of our container platforms.

As a highly technical individual contributor, you will build, maintain, and optimize our Open Shift clusters hosted on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Microsoft Azure, ensuring a stable and efficient environment for our development teams.

• Platform Engineering & Operations: Contribute to the architecture, engineering, and day‑to‑day operations of our Open Shift and Kubernetes clusters on GCP and Azure, focusing on high availability, security, and scalability.
• Service Reliability: Define, monitor, and meet Service Level Agreements (SLAs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and Mean Time to Resolution (MTT) to consistently meet internal customer needs.
• Automation & Efficiency: Develop and implement automation solutions to streamline operations, reduce manual tasks, and improve overall efficiency, enforcing best practices for Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform or Ansible.
• Technical
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to shape the platform’s technical direction and roadmap, aligning capabilities with business requirements.
• Incident Response: Troubleshoot complex technical issues and contribute to post‑mortem analyses to prevent future occurrences.
• Tooling & Development: Design, develop, and maintain tools and services to enhance reliability, observability, and manageability of our Kubernetes environment.

• Proven experience: Typically 5 years as a Kubernetes Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), or Dev Ops Engineer with a strong focus on container orchestration.
• Deep expertise: With Kubernetes and Open Shift platforms, including cluster operations, networking, storage, and security.
• Public cloud expertise: Hands‑on experience with GCP and Azure.
• IaC proficiency: Terraform, Ansible, or similar.
• Scripting & programming: Python, Go, Bash for automation and tool development.
• Distributed systems knowledge: Microservices architectures, networking principles, and security best practices.
• Monitoring, logging, & alerting: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, Datadog, or similar.
• Problem‑solving & debugging: Excellent analytical skills.
• Communication & collaboration: Strong interpersonal skills within a team environment.

• Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage.
• Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp‑up programs, and subsidized backup child care.
• Family building benefits, including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more.
• Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases.
• Tuition assistance.
• Established and active employee resource groups.
• Paid time off for individual and team community service.
• A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day.
• Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status, or protected veteran status. In the United States, if you need a reasonable accommodation for the online application process due to a disability, please call 1‑888‑336‑0660.

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