DEVOPS ENGINEER L3
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Job Description
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of IT/Infrastructure/DevOps experience, with 5+ years in Kubernetes operations in production environments.
- Strong hands-on experience in Kubernetes architecture, cluster operations, and manual application deployment practices.
- Intermediate-level experience in Kubernetes Security, including:
- Cluster hardening, secrets management
- Pod Security Standards (PSS), OPA/Gatekeeper
- Network policies, image scanning, and runtime protections
- Intermediate experience with ArgoCD for GitOps-style Kubernetes deployments.
- Solid proficiency in Linux system administration (Ubuntu, CentOS, RHEL) and troubleshooting.
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes-native storage (e.g., Ceph, NFS) and persistent volume provisioning.
- Strong familiarity with observability tools: Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Mimir, etc.
- Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Helm, and scripting.
- Experience with Velero, Commvault, or similar for backup and DR.
- Experience operating and optimizing cloud-native Kubernetes platforms like EKS, AKS.
- Exposure to tools like Karpenter, MicroK8s, Service Mesh, and Ingress Controllers.
- Familiarity with AI/ML workloads running on Kubernetes is a plus.
- Excellent collaboration, communication, documentation, and incident resolution skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Kubernetes certifications: CKA, CKAD, or CKS.
- Strong understanding of container security, networking, and distributed system architecture.
- Experience using Portainer for container and Kubernetes management.
- Advanced knowledge of Grafana and other enterprise-grade observability tools.
- Experience managing large-scale Kubernetes clusters (200+ nodes) is highly preferred.
- Prior experience supporting production-grade, high-availability platforms and environments.