Kubernetes Architect

Kubernetes Architect

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·       Contributes to the design and implementation of a software engineering culture that unifies Application Development and Operations. Will assist in engineering solutions that maximize the throughput of code releases through automated, secure and portable tools and functions.

 Responsibilities:

·       Participates in the analysis, design and development of technical specifications, programming, and testing of DevOps components.

·       Participates in design and scripting reviews to ensure that design and enterprise programming standards and guidelines are followed.  Assist with creating or updating the enterprise standards when gaps are identified.

·       Assists team members in issue resolution, scalability metrics, integration issues, and critical production issues as required.

·       Follows technology best practices and standards and escalates any issues as they deem appropriate. Follows architecture and design best practices (as guided by the Senior Engineer, Lead DevOps Engineer & Architectural team)

·       Responsible for assisting in configuration and scripting to implement fully automated infrastructure provisioning, image builds, and instance deployment capabilities.

·       Follows standard change control and configuration management practices.

·       Participates in 24-hour on-call rotation in support of the platform.

Required Skills/Qualifications

·       Drive and desire to automate repeatable processes

·       Excellent interpersonal skills and communication, as well as the willingness to collaborate with teams across the organization

·       Experience in DevOps practices, infrastructure, scripting/programming.

·       Linux/Unix OS experience

·       Kubernetes experience

Desired Skills/Qualifications

·       KCNA, CKA, and/or CKAD certification

·       Experience working with Kubernetes in an Enterprise environment

·       Working knowledge of cloud technologies (eg. OpenStack, Azure, AWS, etc.), container concepts (eg. Docker), infrastructure deployment tools (eg. Ansible, Chef, Terraform), CI/CD tools (eg. ArgoCD, Jenkins, GitHub Actions)