Key Responsibilities
- Own and operate Kubernetes infrastructure: cluster lifecycle, upgrades, networking, and multi-tenant isolation for customer workloads.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and deployment infrastructure.
- Leverage AI to automate analysis and resolution of production issues, and improve software development speed, reliability and maintainability.
- Build dashboards, alerting, and anomaly detection across systems.
- Define and enforce SLOs and build out incident response processes.
- Manage and improve networking, load balancing, and service mesh configurations.
- Drive reliability improvements across the stack through automation, runbooks, and chaos engineering.
Requirements
- 5+ years experience in managing critical production systems and software development workflows.
- Strong production experience setting up and operating Kubernetes at scale, using infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible).
- Deep knowledge of Linux networking, container networking (CNI plugins, VXLAN, BGP), and DNS.
- Experience building CI/CD systems and GitOps workflows (FluxCD, ArgoCD).
- Proficiency in Python and either Go or Bash for tooling and automation.
- Strong experience with logging, monitoring and alerting (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Thanos, VictoriaMetrics, Datadog).
- Excellent communication and ability to drive technical decisions across teams.
- Self-starter who executes quickly, takes ownership, and constantly seeks improvement.
Nice-to-Haves
- Experience with managing GPU and AI/ML workloads.
- Experience with kernel-based monitoring and routing (eBPF, XDP).
- Experience with security tooling (Falco, Coroot, SIEM).
- Experience with bare metal Kubernetes networking (Calico, Cilium, MetalLB).
- Experience with distributed storage systems (Ceph, Longhorn, etc.).
Compensation
$180,000-250,000 plus equity + benefits (Range is based across 3 levels Mid, Senior and Staff).