Kubernetes DevOps Engineer

Hello ,

My name is
Rajat
, and I am a Technical Recruiter at
K-Tek Resourcing
. We are searching for professionals for the below business requirements for one of our clients.

My number is
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Role: Kubernetes DevOps Engineer L4

Location: Jersey City, NJ

Job Description and key Responsibilities

• Developing, Testing, Debugging, and Troubleshooting of Containerized Infrastructure.
• Ensure solutions are well-engineered, maintainable, and delivered on schedule.
• Work with business and engineering partners to deploy new infrastructure for private and public cloud platform.
• Monitor the availability, latency, and overall system health. On-call incident and change management
• Willingness to enhance the team learning environment by providing and encouraging mentorship and technical leadership.
• Manage Cloud and containerized environment setup and deployment in AWS & Azure and On Prem environments.
• Ensure security of application and development processes
• Mature Configuration Management processes
• Establish an automated DevOps release management pipeline which delivers tooling for next generation application development efforts and on-going production operations.
• Cultivate a Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery mindset.
• Troubleshoot code build and deployments, product releases, and integration issues with the CI/CD workflow.
• Manage deployment and licensing of all Kubernetes/Container platforms, software, and hardware.
• Cloud virtualized and physical machine/system creation, configuration, management for both application and internal usage.
• Work with all the stake holders to on application migration from on-prem to cloud. Provide recommendations to app teams to design cloud architecture.
• Use appropriate tools to automate deployment and orchestrate governance and security of Infrastructure as code and infrastructure in general.
• Compose and leverage Infrastructure as code using CloudFormation and terraform templates for the repeatable deployment of infrastructure.
• Review Cloud Architecture diagrams and deploy the solutions accordingly.
• Design Well architected solutions in AWS/Azure.
• Engineer cloud operational standards for new approved services and review/update existing ones.
• Work with DevOps team to build Ci/CD pipelines for infrastructure and app teams.
• Design, Review, Build and deploy and Manage Kubernetes Clusters in Multi Cloud Environment.
• Managing IAM permissions the in the cloud and ensuring that the right users have access to the right services with the least privileges.
• Work with vendors to bring new tools/ services to Jefferies.
• Setting naming/ working and operational standards for new services
• Follow change control procedures and policies.
• Create Documentation and provide reports to management. Be on call and Fulfill On-Call Support duties once a month.

Skills, Qualifications and Experience Requirements

Must have 8+ Years' experience in a Multi Cloud and preferrable Hybrid Cloud environment.

• 8+ years deploying distributed apps with containers (Docker) & orchestration (Kubernetes, EKS, GKE). Experience with Rafay is highly desirable for multi cloud orchestration.
• 5+ years development experience in config management (Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Terraform)
• 5+ Years using gitops to deploy applications to Kubernetes.
• 7+ years working within and building on AWS (IAM, Orgs, API Gateway, Lambda, KMS)
• 7+ years Linux system engineering experience
• 5+ years developing or infrastructure and application security for Highly Sensitive Customer Data & Environments (IAM, CI/CD, PKI)
• 5+ years' experience deploying with a CI orchestration service (GitLab/GitHub, Bitbucket, Bamboo, Jfrog, Xray, antifactory, ECR)
• 7+ years working experience scripting/programming language (Bash Shell, Python, JavaScript)
• Experience with TCP/IP networking protocols and components as implemented in IAAS (VPC, TGW, route tables, security groups, etc.)
• Experience with Log Management and Analytics tools such as Splunk, fluentbit etc.
• Excellent experience with observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Otel, AppDynamics etc.
• Excellent experience in securing Kubernetes environment using service mesh, secrets vaulting, service discovery, certificate and AppSSO management,
• Must have in depth AWS development experience (Containerization - Docker, Amazon EKS, Lambda, EC2, S3, Azure blob, Azure VM, service fabric, Azure AKS)
• Scripting capability and the ability to develop AWS/Azure Infrastructure environments as code.
• Experience with core AWS/Azure platform architecture, including areas such as: Organizations, Account Design, VPC, Subnet, segmentation strategies., subscriptions, VNet, resource groups. Security groups, DNS, and routing. etc.
• Data Protection, Persistent Storage, Backup, HA and Disaster Recovery approach and design.
• Network connectivity, Direct Connect, Express Route and VPN
• Good understanding of Compute, Databases, Analytics and security services and best practices in AWS and Azure.
• Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with executives, IT Management, and developers.
• Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly.
• A continuous learner and a critical thinker.
• A team player with great communication skills both verbal and written.

Nice To have Skills.

• DEVOPS certification highly desirable.
• AWS/Azure/Kubernetes Certification Preferred.
• Rafay Certification Highly desirable.
• Knowledge of Internal Developer Portal is highly desirable preferably TAP.
• VMWare and Nutanix Hypervisors - Desired
• Block storage (PURE), Netapp FSX experience is a plus.
• Compute (UCS & Synergy) is a plus.
• Knowledge on VMC and Nutanix on AWS is desired.

Critical Beyond the Technical Skills Required:

• Strong oral and written communication skills with the ability to communicate technical and non-technical concepts to peers, customers, and management.
• Must be capable of routinely making effective and timely decisions in alignment with departmental direction and based on sound business knowledge and industry best practices.
• Possess excellent technical problem solving and customer service skills.
• Ability to cope well under pressure.
• Initiative, drive, and ability to work effectively as part of a local team as well as a global team.
• Must work well without direct supervision and as part of global teams.