Kubernetes Engineer

Kubernetes DevOps Engineer

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Kubernetes DevOps engineer to join our platform engineering team. The candidate is responsible for designing, implementing, and operating an abstraction layer over our Kubernetes to simplify the developer experience for running workloads by encapsulating best practices such as scalability and security. This role involves a deep understanding of Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, security, and an obsession over promoting changes to a central platform without impacting its customers.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement a platform specification file based on the OAM format that conforms to both developer and platform infrastructure requirements. Leverage your experience with K8s and infrastructure to ensure that deployments are secure, scalable, and conform to best practices.
• Collaborate with team that manages underlying infrastructure to ensure that they are providing the required capabilities for you to build and manage your platform. Design a developer experience around the specifications to make it as easy to use as possible. Built integrations using code or scripting to deliver this experience. Consider experiences related to workload deployment and day 2 operations.
• Create a set of recommendations for how development teams should consume the specification file to reduce the risk of outages.
• Build out an SDLC for the specification to support fast code development and the ability to update the specification file without causing downtime or impacting customers. Design and implement release, development, and testing processes.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 7-10 years of experience building platforms.
• Strong background in Kubernetes architecture, deployment, and management.
• Deep understanding of Kubernetes, including security, the object model, and architecture.
• Strong understanding of K8s ecosystem tooling: Argocd, Flux, ingress controllers, service-mesh.
• Expertise building CI/CD pipelines for Kubernetes environments using tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, or GitHub.
• Proficiency with Golang.
• Strong understanding of the SDLC and experience of how developers develop, release and operate systems. Strong opinions on how software development should be done.
• Proficiency in GitOps and the software development life cycle in cloud-native and Kubernetes environments.
• Excellent problem-solving and teamwork skills.
• Strong communication and documentation abilities.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Terraform.
• Experience with OAM and Kubevela.
• Experience writing controllers via Kubebuilder or Crossplane.
• Experience with GitLab.
• Experience in implementing and managing service mesh solutions like Istio or Linkerd to improve microservice communication and reliability within Kubernetes.
• Experience writing tests using the ginkgo/gomega frameworks.

About Us: InterSources Inc, a Certified Diverse Supplier, was founded in 2007 and offers innovative solutions to help clients with Digital Transformations across various domains and industries. Our history spans over 16 years and today we are an Award-Winning Global Software Consultancy solving complex problems with technology. We recognize that our employees and our clients are our strengths as the diverse talents and opportunities they bring to the table enable us to grow as a global platform and they are causally linked with our success. We provide strategic and technical advice, and we have expertise in areas covering Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Migration, Custom Software Development, Data Analytics Infrastructure & Cloud Solutions, Cyber Security Services, etc. We make reasonable accommodations for clients and employees and we do not discriminate based on any protected attribute including race, religion, color, national origin, gender sexual orientation, gender identity, age, or marital status. We also are a Google Cloud partner company. We align strategy with execution and provide secure service solutions by developing and using the latest technologies that thrive our resources to deliver industry-leading capabilities to our clients and customers, making it convenient for our clients to do business with InterSources Inc. Our teams also drive growth by refining technology-driven client experiences that put the users first, providing an unparalleled experience. This results in strengthening the core technologies of clients, enabling them to scale with flexibility, create seamless digital experiences and build lifelong relationships.