Platform Engineer

Job Title: Platform Engineer

Location: Santa Monica, CA-Hybrid is ideal, but remote is an option if timezone is +/- 1 hour within PT

Contract Duration: 12+ months

Job Description:

• The Clients Platform Department focuses on a large-scale migration to Microsoft Azure and the development of our managed and scalable Kubernetes solution.
• We maintain Kubernetes controllers and provide self-service patterns for internal teams by leveraging projects within the Cloud Native Landscape.
• Our goal is to provide all our services and technologies to internal customers in a secure, scalable and repeatable way.
• We are looking for an experienced Platform & Cloud Native Engineer to join our team which is mostly based in Vancouver. If you're excited about working with technologies for low-latency, large scale systems in a collaborative environment then we'd love to hear from you!
• You will be involved in building an internal Kubernetes platform on Azure. Additionally, you will implement security best practices and support the migration of diverse workloads to Kubernetes, ensuring they are set up securely and efficiently.

Responsibilities:

• Help develop best practices and tooling for Azure & Kubernetes usage across the organization
• Implement Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) at scale
• Deploy, maintain and build Kubernetes controllers
• Execute key platform and infrastructure projects involving multiple teams
• Troubleshoot and debug, often in collaboration with other teams
• Collaborate with other engineers in design and code reviews

Requirements:

• 6 + years practical Kubernetes experience, preferably in high-volume and/or critical production service environments
• Hands on experience with Azure is required.
• Experience with Cluster API or other cluster management frameworks
• Experience with Kubernetes Operator pattern
• Experience with development in Golang
• Proven experience in architecting and provisioning services using public cloud services, preferably Azure, but also GCP or AWS

Nice to Haves:

• Experience with managed Kubernetes services such as Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) at scale

Key Attributes:

• A desire to automate all things
• Tenacity for debugging and solving technology problems down to their root cause

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remote long term contract gaining additional enterprise experience

Background Check : Yes


Drug Screen : No


Notes :
Selling points for candidate :remote long term contract gaining additional enterprise experience
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Exclusive to Apex :No
Face to face interview required :No
Candidate must be local :No
Candidate must be authorized to work without sponsorship ::No
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