Senior Kubernetes DevOps Engineer - K0rdent AI Apps/Core Services

Mirantis•San Jose, CA

About The Position

Mirantis is seeking a skilled Kubernetes DevOps Engineer to drive end-to-end custom integration across their k0rdent-ai platform. The role involves collaborating with engineering teams to design and deliver scalable AI infrastructure on Kubernetes environments. Responsibilities include contributing to open-source projects, making strategic architectural decisions, and partnering with external organizations to integrate cutting-edge solutions. The engineer will work within an agile framework and directly impact how enterprises deploy and manage AI workloads at scale.

Requirements

Strong Kubernetes expertise as a user and operator
Strong knowledge of hardened, high-quality Kubernetes integration
General experience with Linux, virtualization, networking, and storage
Overall system architecture, scalability, reliability, and performance experience
Experience in debugging, diagnosing, and troubleshooting complex production software
Experience in developing and maintaining services built on microservice architecture
Experience in large enterprise IT ecosystem
Excellent communication in English - written and spoken

Nice To Haves

OpenStack experience - familiarity with the APIs as a user
Experience handling talks at events and running webinars
Experience in onboarding applications to the cloud
Production operations experience
Experience with design, development, testing, and monitoring of large-scale and data-intensive systems
Experience with operating AI-related workloads
Preferably a university/master degree in Mathematics, Electronics, Telecommunications, or Software Engineering

Responsibilities

Design, implement, and document Kubernetes hardened integrations that connect with enterprise customer environments
Build comprehensive automation pipelines for infrastructure provisioning and service deployment across hybrid cloud architectures
Provide operational support by diagnosing, triaging, and resolving complex system issues with clear prioritization based on customer business impact
Work with core cloud-native technologies and AI frameworks including k0rdent, k0s, k0smotron, Kubeflow, Kserve, vLLM, Nvidia AI Enterprise, Kubevirt, Harbor, ArgoCD, Grafana monitoring platforms and more
Partner closely with customer development teams to ensure successful application deployment and optimization on Kubernetes infrastructure