Kubernetes Platform Engineer (IT Engineer Senior)
About The Position
Qualcomm IT seeks a Kubernetes generalist who can assist with the construction, deployment, management, automation, and troubleshooting of high performance bare-metal on-prem and cloud-based multi-tenant Kubernetes clusters using Rancher. Kubernetes distributions in use are RKE2 (on-prem) and GKE, EKS, AKS (cloud). Day-to-day tasks include monitoring performance and availability of all Kubernetes clusters (including high performance GPU acceleration), as well as developing and deploying platform automation scripts and software. Candidates will join a mature and experienced team of Kubernetes platform administrators with a wide range of skill levels. Candidates will have many opportunities for growth through project work and coaching from mentors. Examples of possible project work include implementation of self-healing system automation; testing, validation, and deployment of new Kubernetes versions; transformation of existing platform automation to make use of new Kubernetes functionality; testing and integration of new high performance bare-metal compute platforms; implementation and troubleshooting of novel Kubernetes multi-tenancy patterns such as vcluster; migration of Gatekeeper OPA policies to Validating Admission Policy.
Requirements
- Comfortable using and developing on Linux as a primary OS, especially Ubuntu.
- 2+ years Kubernetes administration experience.
- Proficiency in Kustomize or Helm (preferably both).
- Intermediate knowledge of Kubernetes CNI networking internals (notably Cilium).
- Direct experience deploying and maintaining enterprise Kubernetes clusters.
- Proficiency with Docker/ContainerD and Linux container internals.
- Advanced proficiency with git and Github.
- Knowledge of Kubernetes control plane architecture and troubleshooting.
- Intermediate proficiency with Python or Go.
- Intermediate proficiency with bash scripting.
- Comfortable with Agile project management in JIRA.
- 3+ years of IT-related work experience with a Bachelor's degree OR 5+ years of IT-related work experience without a Bachelor’s degree.
Nice To Haves
- Recent CKAD and CKA certifications. CKS certification is a plus.
- Bare-metal Kubernetes management with Rancher, RKE2, and Cilium.
- Cloud Kubernetes management (GKE, EKS and AKS).
- Datadog log and metrics collection; dashboarding.
- Open Policy Agent (OPA) and Gatekeeper OPA.
- Kubernetes Ingress/Gateway API implementations.
- Deployment and management of Portworx and MetalLB.
- Creating CI/CD workflows using Github Actions.
- Experience with GPU-accelerated workloads in Kubernetes.
Responsibilities
- Construction, deployment, management, automation, and troubleshooting of high performance bare-metal on-prem and cloud-based multi-tenant Kubernetes clusters using Rancher.
- Monitoring performance and availability of all Kubernetes clusters (including high performance GPU acceleration).
- Developing and deploying platform automation scripts and software.
- Implementation of self-healing system automation.
- Testing, validation, and deployment of new Kubernetes versions.
- Transformation of existing platform automation to make use of new Kubernetes functionality.
- Testing and integration of new high performance bare-metal compute platforms.
- Implementation and troubleshooting of novel Kubernetes multi-tenancy patterns such as vcluster.
- Migration of Gatekeeper OPA policies to Validating Admission Policy.
Benefits
- Competitive annual discretionary bonus program
- Opportunity for annual RSU grants
- Highly competitive benefits package
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
