Senior Container Platform Engineer

C.H. Robinson•Eden Prairie, MN

25d•Remote

About The Position

C.H. Robinson seeks the services of a Senior Container Platform Engineer based out of our U.S. headquarters in Eden Prairie, MN. This is a remote position whereby the employee must reside in and retain the ability to attend required meetings at a C.H. Robinson facility in the following U.S. states: MN, IL, and MO. As Senior Container Platform Engineer you will provide operational support for C.H. Robinson’s Kubernetes environment, both on-premises and in our Azure cloud. In this role, you will: effectively design, build, configure, and expose cloud native applications for Kubernetes; define application resources and use core primitives to build, monitor, and troubleshoot scalable applications and tools in Kubernetes; support the related technologies in the platform’s domain such as routing, monitoring, alerting, performance, and capacity planning; and work closely with and in conjunction with a U.S. based team, as well as other global team members, to deliver follow-the-sun support for the Kubernetes ecosystem. C.H. Robinson is a 24/7 Support Team supporting a global environment and as such, you may be asked to cover alterative shifts and be part of a weekly on-call rotation.

Requirements

At least a Bachelor’s degree, or its foreign equivalent, in Computer Science, Software Engineering, IS, MIS, Mechanical Engineering, or a related technical field.
At least three (3) years of experience developing open-source platforms for containerized workloads, including container engineering, cloud infrastructure, DevOps, or related areas.
1 year of experience architecting and maintaining multi-site deployments of Avi Load Balancer (NSX Advanced Load Balancer) in production environments.
3 years of experience developing and managing Ansible playbooks specifically for Kubespray-based Kubernetes clusters, including lifecycle automation and cluster upgrades.
3 years of experience executing large-scale application migrations across heterogeneous Kubernetes distributions (e.g., OpenShift to EKS, GKE to onprem), with minimal downtime and full observability.
3 years of experience customizing and troubleshooting Kubernetes Container Network Interfaces (CNIs), with production-level experience in at least two of the following: Cilium, Calico, or Kubenet.
3 years of experience with cost governance and performance tuning of Kubernetes workloads, including real-time monitoring, autoscaling strategies, and rightsizing compute resources across cloud and hybrid environments.

Responsibilities

Provide operational support for C.H. Robinson’s Kubernetes environment, both on-premises and in our Azure cloud.
Effectively design, build, configure, and expose cloud native applications for Kubernetes.
Define application resources and use core primitives to build, monitor, and troubleshoot scalable applications and tools in Kubernetes.
Support the related technologies in the platform’s domain such as routing, monitoring, alerting, performance, and capacity planning.
Work closely with and in conjunction with a U.S. based team, as well as other global team members, to deliver follow-the-sun support for the Kubernetes ecosystem.
Cover alternative shifts and be part of a weekly on-call rotation.

Benefits

Three medical plans which include Prescription drug coverage
Enhanced Fertility benefits
Flexible Spending Accounts
Health Savings Account (including employer contribution)
Dental and Vision
Basic and Supplemental Life Insurance
Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
Paid observed holidays
2 paid floating holidays for U.S. hourly employees
Flexible Time Off (FTO) offered to U.S. salaried employees — no accruals and no caps.
Paid Time Off (PTO) offered to all other employees in the U.S. and Canada
Paid parental leave
Paid time off to volunteer in your community
Charitable Giving Match Program
401(k) with 6% company matching
Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Career development, networking, and team-building opportunities