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Kubernetes Engineer

Ztek Consulting
Plano, TX Full Time
POSTED ON 6/3/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 7/3/2026

Job Role: Kubernetes Engineer

Location: Plano, TX

Job Description:

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

  1. 5 years of hands-on platform experience of Kubernetes engineering and development.
  2. 5 years of experience in working with hybrid Infra architectures
  3. 5 years of experience with AWS cloud infrastructure.
  4. Hands on experience with IaC such as Terraform.
  5. Strong understanding of Infrastructure capacity planning, monitoring, upgrades, IaaC automations using Terraform, Ansible, CICD using Jenkins/GitHub Actions.
  6. Understanding of the entire infrastructure lifecycle Plan, Build, Deploy, and Operate
  7. Experience collaborating with multiple stakeholders/teams (architecture and infrastructure delivery teams) to ensure consistent solution design and integration.
  8. Hands on experience with GitHub Actions, Artifactory/JFrog, python scripting, EKS
  9. Required Certifications: Certified Kubernetes Administrator

Nice to Have

  1. Knowledge of Nutanix environment
  2. Strong understanding of how to secure AWS environments and meet compliance requirements.
  3. Certification - AWS Certified Solution Architect.
  4. Experience with Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP)

Roles & Responsibilities

  1. Work with hybrid Infra architectures Strong hands-on experience using AWS Services and Kubernetes engineering and development.
  2. Onboarding applications to Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP)
  3. Understanding of Infrastructure capacity planning, monitoring, upgrades, IaaC automations using Terraform, Ansible, CICD using Jenkins/GitHub Actions.
  4. Understanding of how to secure AWS environments and meet compliance requirements.
  5. Work with engineering teams to support the entire infrastructure lifecycle Plan, Build, Deploy, and Operate
  6. Collaborate with multiple stakeholders/teams (architecture and infrastructure delivery teams) to ensure consistent solution design and integration.
  7. Hands on experience with GitHub Actions, Artifactory/JFrog, python scripting, EKS
  8. Knowledge of Kubernetes environment

Generic Managerial Skills, If any

Project Management skills (Good to have)

Salary : $100,000 - $110,000

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