Kubernetes - DevOps Lead
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Summary
DevOps Lead in Melbourne administering Linux servers and Kubernetes clusters: handling incidents via ServiceNow, monitoring with Prometheus/Grafana/Kibana, managing Docker containers, and mentoring the team. Strong Linux, networking and K8s skills are core; electric-utility/CNI and DERMS experience are value-adds.
- Provide technical mentorship to team members and foster a culture of operational excellence.
- Manage and ensure timely resolution of incidents and service requests in Service Now.
- Maintain documentation and operational procedures for incident response and recovery.
- Hands on experience on Linux operating system administration and proficiency in Linux command line and shell scripting.
- Linux file system and backup management
- Manage disk space and partitions
- Configuring and managing RAID arrays
- Oversee server administration, ensuring optimal performance, security and reliability
- Strong understanding of Kubernetes architecture – including nodes, pods, services, deployments and namespaces.
- Familiarity with key Kubernetes objects
- Hands on in using K8S management tools using tools like Openlens, kubectl, Lens etc.
- Familiarity with K8S resource management and cluster health performance monitoring – hands on tools like Kibana, Grafana, Prometheus, ELK etc.
- Managing containers with Docker and orchestration with Kubernetes
- Integrating with DevOps tools and CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Gilab CI etc is a value add.
- Basic understanding of Apache Kafka*
- Basic knowledge of networking fundamentals
- Configuring network interface, routing and hostname resolution
- Managing network services
- Hands on in using network diagnostic tools like ping, netstat, traceroute, ip and ip tables
- Good knowledge of protocols such as TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, HTTPS, LDAP, SMTP and SNMP
- Coordinate with internal teams and stakeholders to accomplish the task.
- Triage and route calls / tickets to appropriate resources and domains who can best support to address the issue/problem adhering to the SLA.
- Basic understanding on Zero Trust cybersecurity principles
- Industry/domain experience in Electric Utility / Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) is a value add.
- Experience in DERMS application is a value add.