Kubernetes Architect

• Design and development: Working closely with an agile development team of Kubernetes engineers to co-design and develop a Kubernetes managed service for telco functions within a high security private cloud environment.
• Automation: Automating cluster deployment, scaling, and management using infrastructure as code (IaC) and container orchestration tools. Collaborating with development teams on infrastructure deployment best practices, encompassing CI/CD pipelines and related frameworks such as Terraform, Jenkins, and Ansible.
• Operations: Utilising a DevOps approach, providing documentation and incident escalation support to operations teams to facilitate brilliant in life service and incident management of the Kubernetes managed service.
• Integration: Building a deep understanding of varied software spanning security, logging, monitoring, cloud infrastructure, networks, and how best to integrate these into a cohesive platform solution.
• Innovation and Evaluation: Contributing to the exploration of cutting-edge technologies through the deployment of new technology proof-of-concept projects related to Kubernetes, participation in their assessment, and development into an in-life service.

Do you have experience in Terraform?, * Strong Linux OS experience

• Worked in on-prem or private cloud environments
• Hands-on Kubernetes experience (using K8s, not necessarily running the control plane)
• Experience with at least one automation/IaC tool (Terraform or Ansible ideal)
• Strong networking fundamentals

Nice to have

• Experience with OpenStack
• Bare-metal provisioning
• Experience with Rancher/RKE2, or other on-prem K8s flavours
• CI/CD tooling
• Scripting in Python/Golang
• GitOps concepts
• Telco networking technologies (SR-IOV, DPDK)