Kubernetes Engineer

Job Description

About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Kubernetes Engineer to join our DevOps team. In this role, you will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining scalable Kubernetes infrastructure while developing and managing robust CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins. A strong focus on observability, monitoring, and alerting is essential to ensure system reliability and performance across our environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain scalable, secure, and resilient Kubernetes clusters in production.
• Architect and manage CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, ensuring fast, reliable, and repeatable delivery.
• Implement and maintain observability solutions using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, Datadog, or OpenTelemetry.
• Work closely with application and platform teams to containerize and deploy applications following best practices.
• Develop automation scripts/tools using Python, Bash, or similar to support infrastructure provisioning and management.
• Define and implement disaster recovery strategies and high-availability configurations.
• Collaborate in cross-functional teams to improve deployment, incident response, and on-call processes.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to the DevOps engineering culture.

Required Qualifications

• 5 years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering roles.
• Expert-level knowledge of Kubernetes (e.g., cluster lifecycle management, Helm, custom operators, RBAC).
• Strong hands-on experience with Jenkins, including pipeline-as-code (Declarative or Scripted).
• Proficiency with observability stacks (e.g., Prometheus/Grafana, ELK, Datadog, New Relic, OpenTelemetry).
• Solid understanding of networking, service meshes (e.g., Istio, Linkerd), and container security.
• Proven experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform or Pulumi.
• Proficient in scripting (Python, Bash, or Go).
• Experience managing Kubernetes on AWS (EKS) is required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with AWS services such as IAM, VPC, EC2, S3, CloudWatch, and RDS.
• Experience with GitOps workflows and tools (e.g., ArgoCD, Flux).
• Exposure to policy enforcement tools (e.g., OPA/Gatekeeper, Kyverno).
• Background in incident management and postmortem practices (SRE mindset).

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