Kubernetes / VKS Engineer
Summary
Senior L3 platform engineer owning the resiliency, deployment standards, and performance of Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (VKS) clusters — architecting HA environments, leading root-cause troubleshooting of critical failures, governing lifecycle/security compliance, and mentoring L2 engineers. Core stack: Kubernetes, Docker/containerd, Helm, Linux.
Job Overview:
We are looking for a highly accomplished Kubernetes / VKS Engineer L3 with 8-10 years of core infrastructure experience to provide advanced technical leadership, platform architecture validation, and root-cause troubleshooting. In this high-impact, full-time role, you will take full ownership over the resiliency, deployment standards, and performance of critical VKS (Tanzu Kubernetes Grid) environments. This position is built for an expert platform engineer capable of driving infrastructure automation while mentoring engineering teams.
Key Responsibilities:
- Platform Architecture & Design: Architect, deploy, and manage highly available, fault-tolerant Kubernetes and VKS clusters across distributed enterprise environments.
- Advanced L3 Troubleshooting: Lead complex technical deep-dives to diagnose and resolve critical cluster failures, low-level networking anomalies, storage bottlenecks, and application runtime issues.
- Governance & Standards: Define, implement, and maintain global Kubernetes platform standards, security baselines, image hardened policies, and automated configuration definitions.
- Lifecycle Management: Govern cluster lifecycle upgrades, perform intensive capacity planning simulations, manage cluster security compliance, and direct technical Root Cause Analysis (RCA) workflows.
- Engineering Mentorship: Deliver technical leadership across cross-functional DevOps and application development groups while directly mentoring and upskilling L2 infrastructure engineers.
Required Skills & Qualifications:
- 8-10 years of intensive software engineering experience focused heavily on Kubernetes orchestration, infrastructure operations, and modern DevOps engineering.
- Deep, hands-on architectural and production-grade mastery over VKS platforms, container runtimes (Docker/containerd), and Kubernetes networking/storage primitives.
- Proven expertise building and managing deployments using Helm, maintaining Linux operating systems, and building automated cloud infrastructure pipelines.
- Exceptional technical troubleshooting capabilities paired with an ownership-driven mindset to lead high-severity incident resolutions in high-availability environments.
- B.E. / B.Tech or equivalent technical undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related engineering discipline.