Our client, an airliner out of Euless, is looking for a DevOps who has heavy experience with Kubernetes and ServiceMesh tools, ideally Istio but will work with Kuma and Rancher.

You will be on the enterprise Kubernetes as a Service product team, building high-performance, highly available, secure and resilient IaaS platforms for internal development teams. If you have any exposure with Datadog/Prometheus/Grafana, than that is a plus.

This is a 6-12 month contract-to-hire, on-site 3 days a week at around $80-85/hr based on experience.

Responsibilities

• Develop Infrastructure as code using Terraform, Python, and GitHub action to manage Cloud Kubernetes infrastructure
• Lifecycle management on Kubernetes clusters which included upgrades and implementing best practices.
• Document solutions, architectural patterns, and best practices around the Kubernetes environment
• Work with Internal IT teams (Risk, Security, Compliance) to implement security policies on Kubernetes clusters.
• Implementing observability solutions on Kubernetes and develop alerting and monitoring solutions
• Tune performance
• Set up and manage the networking plumbing for Kubernetes.
• Troubleshooting Kubernetes issues related to resources deployed on the cluster, Network issues and CICD pipeline, etc.
• Collaborate with internal application teams, to onboard onto the Kubernetes cluster.
• 24/7 on call rotation supporting business critical applications or systems.
  
  

Required Qualifications:

• 2+ years of Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service(AKS) with deep understanding of Container Orchestration and Distributed System Concepts
• 2+ years of experience implementing infrastructure as code
• 3+ years of experience keeping production environments operating at peak performance on cloud and in containers
• 2+ years of experience managing production Kubernetes infrastructure with exposure to the use of cloud vendor Kubernetes solutions such as AKS
• 3+ hands on experience with Infrastructure as code and configuration as code build and deployment using CICD pipeline. Working experience with Github/Github Actions and ArgoCD are preferred.
• Extensive experience automating system tasks and infrastructure using Python, Terraform
• Experience with Service Mesh such as Istio, Kuma, and Control Plane such as Rancher
• Experience with Observability technologies and optimizing monitoring using technologies such as Dynatrace, Grafana, LogDNA, Datadog
• Knowledge of Linux OS, network, Azure PaaS solutions
• Desire to be part of an incredible team. That means being someone the team can count on, who communicates honestly; respects others and their views; can adapt quickly to changing priorities; drives positive change, and is committed to giving 110%.
  
  

This position does not offer sponsorship or C2C at the current moment.

Posted By: Evan Coldwell