Staff Engineer (Kubernetes Architect)

You Are a Potential Match for This Role If You Have:

• A history of driving modernization projects to transition legacy deployments to containerized and cloud-native solutions.
• Expertise in Kubernetes ecosystem tools and technologies like Helm, Kustomize, and CI/CD integration with K8s.
• Experience with air-gap installations and securing containerized environments.
• Experience managing scalable, fault-tolerant storage solutions using Ceph or similar technologies.
• Familiarity with Apache Open Source components and a solid understanding of their deployment and runtime requirements.
• Familiarity with security best practices for Kubernetes, including RBAC, pod security policies, and secrets management.
• A track record of successfully transitioning from traditional deployment methods to modern containerized solutions.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive continuous improvement.

What we look for:

• 8 years of experience in developing, deploying, and operationalizing applications on Kubernetes (K8s).
• Good understanding of legacy deployment approaches, including manual deployment, script based automation and standalone updates on bare-metal with or without Ambari.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes technologies, Helm including setting up air-gapped installations and integrating with cloud-managed(e.g., GKE, EKS, AKS)  Kubernetes solutions.
• Solid understanding of networking concepts in containerized environments, including CNI plugins, ingress controllers, network namespaces, and multi-host networking while optimizing the latency and service meshes.
• A background in optimizing and automating build and release pipelines.
• Proven experience with Apache components such as Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, NiFi, and their dependencies.
• A passion for innovation, process improvement, and simplifying complex tasks.
• Work closely with the development teams to gather system requirements, new service proposals and large system improvements and develop the infrastructure architecture leading to stable, well-monitored fly, performant and secure systems.