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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Cloud Infrastructure Development Engineer III - Kubernetes - **Company:** Expedia Inc. - **Location:** Chicago, IL, United States - **Experience:** Experienced - **Salary:** $136,000.0 - $190,500.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Systems Engineering, User Authentication, Cloud Computing, Configuration Management, Continuous Delivery, Decision Support Systems, Python (Programming Language), Machine Learning, Networking Basics, Reliability Engineering, Software Engineering, YAML, Load Balancing, Cloud Platform System, Istio, System Availability, Kubernetes Helm Charts, Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Information Technology, Terraform, Golang, Programming Languages - **Published:** September 4, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/d6fac75b-63a5-42b0-91ba-4403005faa54 ## About the Role * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field; or Equivalent related professional experience. * 5+ years of relevant professional experience. * 3+ years of infrastructure automation, configuration management or container orchestration * Experience building, deploying, and operating cloud infrastructure or platform services, with ownership spanning multiple services or engineering teams. * Proficiency with software engineering and cloud-platform practices, including automation, infrastructure as code, APIs, data modeling, observability, and reliability engineering. * Demonstrated proficiency with at least one major public cloud provider, container orchestration concepts, networking, and security controls, including hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code and automation. * Proficiency in at least one programming language such as Python, Go, or Java., * Experience designing and operating cloud platforms at scale with strong availability, performance, security, and cost characteristics. * Familiarity with AI-driven systems, tools, or workflows and applying AI/ML concepts to real-world products. * Experience designing and implementing Service Mesh within Kubernetes environments, including strong knowledge of Istio and familiarity with emerging architectures such as Ambient Mesh. * Advanced proficiency developing Kubernetes-related tooling, controllers, operators, or automation using Go (Golang). * Proficient with Terraform for provisioning, automating, and managing cloud and Kubernetes infrastructure at scale. * Solid understanding of systems engineering and networking fundamentals, including proxy-based architectures, workload identity and authentication, service-to-service communication, and TCP/IP networking concepts within cloud environments. * Experience with cloud-native infrastructure tooling and frameworks such as Crossplane, Terragrunt, cert-manager, Kubernetes Load Balancer Controllers, or similar technologies used to support scalable and secure platform operations. * Prior experience creating, maintaining, and troubleshooting Kubernetes manifests, Helm charts, and YAML-based configurations. ## Description * Design, build, and operate reliable cloud platform capabilities that enable engineering teams to deliver and run services effectively. * Apply technical aptitude across infrastructure, automation, observability, security, and platform reliability to improve engineering outcomes. * Configure, implement, and enhance service mesh capabilities, including ingress controller patterns and Istio-based solutions, to support secure service-to-service communication and workload connectivity. * Drive observability, capacity planning, system and service performance analysis, and environment tuning, while debugging issues across production and pre-production environments. * Advance continuous delivery practices by automating application and infrastructure deployments, integrating infrastructure as code into CI/CD pipelines, and detecting and remediating deployment issues. * Take ownership of high-pressure operational scenarios by applying calm, data-driven decision making, advocating for operational excellence through resiliency, scalability, testing, and service-level practices, participating in on-call rotations, and exploring new technologies, including AI-driven tools and workflows, that improve engineering outcomes. * Safely integrate and operate AI/ML-enabled solutions that improve outcomes, while applying AI/ML concepts to real-world products and workflows. ## Related Videos - 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