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Kubernetes Architect

Location: Denver, CO

Job description:

The successful candidate will:

• Create and maintain the architecture of Kubernetes implementation using Tanzu, Rancher or K8 native tools in public or private cloud.
• Maintain strong knowledge of the CNCF Kubernetes projects.
• Build and maintain configuration and set-up best practices and guidelines for K8.
• Design and implement solutions that allow K8 to scale at the infrastructure and Pod levels.
• Build observability in the platform using open source or commercially available tools that allows to have full control over the K8 environment and services running on it.
• Collaborate with stakeholders including the executive, product, other architects, and engineers in the teams to assist with kubernetes-related technical issues and support their services.
• Able to come up with the solution that can overcome the shortcomings of the open source or commercial tool(s) used in the platform build.
• Have strong networking and storage knowledge in K8.
• We believe in knowledge sharing. So we strongly encourage our engineers to contribute to the open source community.
• Have good experience with CICD, RESTful APIs and SRE practices and apply in your work daily.
• Bring strong analytical, diagnostic and problem solving skills with the ability to  independently create solutions and work with others in the team.
• Prepare and present the high level solutions, architecture diagrams, write requirements, specifications, and white boarding to C-level executives, managers and engineers in the team.

Must have skills:

• A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science Engineering,or a related technical degree.

• Overall 12+ years of experience working in the field of Linux/Unix, AWS EC2s, DevOps, Cloud, Containers and its echo system.
• 4+ years of hands-on working experience with Kubernetes and its components - control plane, data plane, Containers - Docker, with deploying, managing and scaling on prem and in cloud.
• 2+ years of experience with Istio, Consul, automation using terraform/python, Helm charts.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with setting up monitoring and Observability for Kubernetes.
• Experience with multi-node setup of ELK, Prometheus, Fluentbit, Kibana and Kafka.
• Experience with BPF/eBPF is highly preferred.
• 1+ years handson experience with Tanzu, VMWare Virtualization is needed.
• Strong working experience in a Linux environment.
• Working with RESTful APIs and large volumes of data.
• Experience with Git-Ops continuous delivery tools and DevOps/SRE practices.

Good to have skills:

• Experience in building distributed, multi-region kubernetes clusters.
• Experience with the AWS environment.
• Good understanding of networking/firewall and storage in Kubernetes and in general.
• Understanding of container security (image, pod, network)
• Experience in microservices with container technologies like Docker/Kubernetes
• Experience with troubleshooting production systems.