Production Engineer Kubernetes

You will build and scale tooling and features for managed Kubernetes and virtual machine platforms. You will monitor alerts, performance metrics, and logs; develop monitoring tools; and maintain service-level indicators and objectives. You will participate in incident response, post-mortems, root-cause analysis, and proactive automated remediation. You will work with software engineers on resilient code, deployment reviews, and data-center action plans. You will document your work and share operational insights.

Responsibilities

• Build and scale tooling and features for managed Kubernetes and managed virtual machine platforms.
• Collaborate on daily priorities, incidents, and action plans for new or retrofitted data centers.
• Advise software engineers on resilient code and review changes before deployment.
• Review alerts and system performance metrics.
• Analyze system logs and develop monitoring tools.
• Participate in incident response drills, post-mortems, and root-cause analysis.
• Automate remediation for common errors.
• Maintain high service-level indicators and service-level objectives.
• Document work and share insights.

Requirements

• 3–6 years of professional Production Engineer experience.
• Experience building Kubernetes platforms or Kubernetes controllers.
• Exposure to server-class hardware and provisioning.
• Understanding of distributed-systems architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
• Understanding of infrastructure design and operational trade-offs in network, storage, and RPC serving designs.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language, such as Python or Go.
• Exposure to observability tooling, including logging, monitoring, and alerting.
• Experience with Unix/Linux environments.
• Understanding of TCP/IP and network programming fundamentals.
• Awareness of basic information security best practices.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or self-education in computer science fundamentals.
• Strong communication skills.

Benefits

• Pension contributions.
• Private health insurance.
• Private dental insurance.
• Income protection.
• Life assurance.