Kubernetes Platform Engineer, Staff Level - Cork, Ireland

Company:

QT Technologies Ireland Limited

Job Area:

Information Technology Group, Information Technology Group > IT Engineering

General Summary:

About The Role

Qualcomm offers flexible work options tailored to our employee’s needs. These include a combination of work from home and working in our brand new, state of the art office in Penrose Dock, Cork. Well-being and life balance are fundamental to Qualcomm as an employer.  We recognise and understand that employees have missed spending quality time with loved ones and extended family. As such, Cork Qualcomm policy allows our employees to blend short-term remote working with annual leave.

Qualcomm IT seeks a Kubernetes generalist who can assist with the construction, deployment, and troubleshooting of bare-metal on-prem and cloud-based multi-tenant Kubernetes clusters using Rancher.  Kubernetes distributions in use are RKE (on-prem) and GKE, EKS, AKS (cloud).  Day to day tasks also include monitoring performance and availability of all Kubernetes clusters, as well as performing capacity planning activities.  Candidates will join a mature and experienced team of Kubernetes platform administrators with a wide range of skill levels.  Candidates will have many opportunities for growth through project work and coaching from mentors.  Examples of possible project work include implementation of self-healing system automation; testing, validation, and deployment of new Kubernetes versions; transformation of existing platform automation to make use of new Kubernetes functionality; testing and integration of new bare-metal compute platforms; implementation and troubleshooting of novel Kubernetes multi-tenancy patterns such as vcluster. 

Baseline requirements:

• Comfortable using and developing on Linux as a primary OS, especially Ubuntu. 
• 4+ years administering Linux systems, intermediate proficiency. 
• 2+ years Kubernetes administration experience. 
• Advanced proficiency in Kustomize or Helm (preferably both). 
• Intermediate knowledge of Kubernetes networking internals (notably Flannel+Calico). 
• Direct experience deploying and maintaining enterprise Kubernetes clusters. 
• Advanced proficiency with Docker and Linux container internals. 
• Advanced proficiency with git and Github. 
• Comprehensive knowledge of Kubernetes control plane architecture and troubleshooting. 
• Intermediate proficiency with Python. 
• Intermediate proficiency with bash scripting. 
• Comfortable with Agile project management in JIRA. 

Beneficial additional experience: 

• Recent CKAD and CKA certifications.  CKS certification is a plus. 
• Bare-metal Kubernetes management with Rancher and RKE. 
• Cloud Kubernetes management (GKE, EKS and AKS). 
• Datadog log and metrics collection; dashboarding. 
• Writing Operators in Python using KOPF. 
• Open Policy Agent (OPA) and Gatekeeper OPA. 
• Kubernetes Ingress/Gateway API implementations. 
• Deployment and management of Portworx. 
• Creating CI/CD workflows using Github Actions. 
• Deployment and management of MetalLB. 

Where you will be working

Cork has a proud reputation as Ireland's second largest economic engine and is now one of the Top 20 location choices in Europe with 39,000 people being employed by over 170 overseas companies.
There's a growing diversity in the region with people from many nationalities relocating to Cork, relishing the opportunity to work and live in a location that offers an excellent quality of life.
A gateway to Europe, Cork airport provides access to almost 50 international destinations including transatlantic air routes.

Equal Opportunities
We are an Equal Opportunity employer; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any protected classification.

What's on Offer

Apart from working in an open, relaxed and collaborative space, you will enjoy:

• Salary, stock and performance related bonus
• Maternity/Paternity Leave
• Employee stock purchase scheme
• Matching pension scheme
• Education Assistance
• Relocation and immigration support (if needed)
• Life, Medical, Income and Travel Insurance
• Subsidised memberships for physical and mental well-being
• Bicycle purchase scheme
• Employee run clubs, including, running, football, chess, badminton + many more

Minimum Qualifications:

• 4+ years of IT-related work experience with a Bachelor's degree.
OR
7+ years of IT-related work experience without a Bachelor’s degree.

Physical Requirements:
• Frequently transports and installs equipment up to 20 lbs.

*References to a particular number of years experience are for indicative purposes only. Applications from candidates with equivalent experience will be considered, provided that the candidate can demonstrate an ability to fulfill the principal duties of the role and possesses the required competencies.

Qualcomm expects its employees to abide by all applicable policies and procedures, including but not limited to security and other requirements regarding protection of Company confidential information and other confidential and/or proprietary information, to the extent those requirements are permissible under applicable law.

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