Kubernetes Platform Engineer (IT Engineer, Staff)

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Responsibilities

• ▹Build, deploy, manage, automate, and troubleshoot high-performance bare-metal on-prem and cloud-based multi-tenant Kubernetes clusters
• ▹Monitor performance and availability of all Kubernetes clusters, including high-performance GPU acceleration
• ▹Develop and deploy platform automation scripts and software
• ▹Implement self-healing system automation
• ▹Test, validate, and deploy new Kubernetes versions
• ▹Test and integrate new high-performance bare-metal compute platforms
• ▹Implement and troubleshoot novel Kubernetes multi-tenancy patterns such as vcluster
• ▹Migrate Gatekeeper OPA policies to Validating Admission Policy

Requirements

• ▹Comfortable using and developing on Linux as a primary OS, especially Ubuntu
• ▹2+ years of Kubernetes administration experience
• ▹Advanced proficiency in Kustomize or Helm (preferably both)
• ▹Intermediate knowledge of Kubernetes networking internals (notably Cilium)
• ▹Direct experience deploying and maintaining enterprise Kubernetes clusters
• ▹Advanced 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
• ▹4+ years of IT-related work experience with a Bachelor's degree, or 7+ years without one

Nice to have

• ▹Recent CKAD and CKA certifications; CKS a plus
• ▹Bare-metal Kubernetes management with Rancher, RKE2, and Cilium
• ▹Cloud Kubernetes management (GKE, EKS, 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

What we offer

• ▹Annual discretionary bonus program
• ▹Opportunity for annual RSU grants
• ▹Highly competitive benefits package

About the company

Qualcomm IT's Kubernetes platform team is a mature, experienced group of administrators offering growth opportunities through project work and mentoring.