Sr. Kubernetes DevOps Engineer

Employment Type: Direct Hire/Perm

Workplace Type: Onsite/Hybrid

Location: Irvine, CA

Compensation: $280-$350k salary w/ a 20% annual bonus

Responsibilities:

• Utilize Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform and Ansible to automate cloud resource provisioning, ensuring consistency, repeatability, and efficient resource management.
• Deploy and manage Kubernetes clusters to effectively orchestrate containerized applications and microservices architectures.
• Continuously optimize cluster performance and ensure high availability to minimize downtime.
• Optimize Kubernetes resource management for continuous cost reduction.
• Implement robust monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions to gain real-time insights into system health.
• Proactively identify and troubleshoot performance bottlenecks and potential issues before they impact operations.
• Work closely with product and development teams to troubleshoot and resolve errors swiftly.
• Optimize systems to enhance operational efficiency and streamline workflows for improved service quality.
• Continuously iterate on operational processes, automating tasks and establishing standardization for a smoother and more efficient workflow.

RRequired Skills & Experience:

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 5 years of experience as a DevOps/SRE Engineer with a strong focus on Kubernetes, IaC, and cloud-native technologies.
• Advanced skills and knowledge in designing, deploying, troubleshooting, managing and maintaining Kubernetes clusters.
• Senior-level expertise in Kubernetes operation, familiarity with Helm and Istio, and a proven track record of optimizing high availability and disaster recovery architectures.
• Solid understanding of Linux kernel, including practical experience in relevant areas like networking, storage, file systems, memory management, scheduler, and cgroups.
• Strong troubleshooting skills to diagnose and resolve system and network layer performance issues and failures.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment.

Additional Skills (Preferred):

• Experience with both multi-cloud and multi-tenant deployments in Kubernetes.
• Advanced knowledge of AWS ecosystems and familiarity with other multi-cloud providers (Azure, GCP, OCI).
• Track record of successfully building, deploying, troubleshooting, and maintaining complex Kubernetes Operators.
• Experience operating open-source software like etcd, Zookeeper, Kafka, ELK Stack, and Nginx/HAProxy.
• Certifications in Kubernetes, AWS, IaC (i.e. Terraform), Cloud Providers (Azure, GCP, OCI), ect.
• Relevant Kubernetes certifications (i.e., CKAD, KCNA, CKA, CKS) and AWS cloud certifications.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, age, ancestry, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, or military or veteran status. We consider all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with state and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance.