What you’ll be doing...

You will be part of a World Class Container Platform team that builds and operates highly scalable Kubernetes based container platforms(EKS, OCP, OKE and GKE) at a large scale for Global Technology Solutions at Verizon, a top 20 Fortune 500 company. This individual will have a high level of technical expertise and daily hands-on implementation working in a product team developing services in two week sprints using agile principles. This entitles programming and orchestrating the deployment of feature sets into the Kubernetes CaaS platform along with building Docker containers via a fully automated CI/CD pipeline utilizing AWS, Jenkins Ansible playbooks, AWS, CI/CD tools and process (Jenkins, JIRA, GitLab, ArgoCD), Python, Shell Scripts or any other scripting technologies. You will have autonomous control over day-to-day activities allocated to the team as part of agile development of new services

• Automation and testing of different platform deployments, maintenance and decommissioning

• Full Stack Development

• Participate in POC(Proof of Concept) technical evaluations for new technologies for use in the cloud

What we’re looking for...

You’ll need to have:

• Bachelor's degree or four or more years of work experience.

• Three or more years of relevant kubernetes-centric development experience

• Address Jira tickets opened by platform customers

• Hands-on experience with one or more of the following platforms: EKS, Red Hat OpenShift, GKE, AKS, OCI

• RBAC and Pod Security Standards, Quotas, LimitRanges, OPA & Gatekeeper Policies

• Expertise in one or more of the following: Ansible, Terraform, Helm, Jenkins, Gitlab VSC/Pipelines/Runners, Artifactory

• Proficiency with monitoring/observability tools such as New Relic, Prometheus/Grafana, logging solutions (Fluentd/Elastic/Fluentbit/OTEL/ADOT/Splunk) to include creating/customizing metrics and/or logging dashboards

• Infra components like Flux, cert-manager, Karpenter, Cluster Autoscaler, VPC CNI, Over-provisioning, CoreDNS, metrics-server

• Familiarity with Wireshark, tshark, dumpcap, etc., capturing network traces and performing packet analysis

• Working experience with Service Mesh lifecycle management and configuring, troubleshooting applications deployed on Service Mesh and Service Mesh related issues 

• Demonstrated expertise with the K8S ecosystem (inspecting cluster resources, determining cluster health, identifying potential application issues, etc.)

• Experience creating self-healing automation scripts/pipelines

• Bash scripting experience to include automation scripting (netshoot, RBAC lookup, etc.)

• Demonstrated Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills

• Demonstrated expertise with the K8S security ecosystem (SCC, network policies, RBAC, CVE remediation, CIS benchmarks/hardening, etc.)

• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills

• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

• Excellent cross collaboration and communication skills