Role: Kubernetes Engineer
Location: Sunnyvale/Austin - Hybrid
Duration: 6+ months
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain high-performance, low-latency REST/gRPC APIs and microservices using Go, Java, Python, or Node.js.
- Own the full software lifecycle, including design, development, testing, deployment, monitoring, and production support.
- Build, deploy, and manage cloud-native, containerized applications on Kubernetes.
- Implement CI/CD, GitOps, observability, and leverage Helm, Kustomize, Service Mesh, Ingress, Operators, and Autoscaling.
- Design and operate distributed systems with technologies such as Kafka, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Spark, etcd, or distributed caching, ensuring scalability, fault tolerance, and high availability.
- Troubleshoot complex distributed system issues involving networking, partitioning, consensus, and retries.
- Develop and manage cloud infrastructure on AWS, Google Cloud Platform, or Azure, utilizing services such as S3, GCS, Pub/Sub, IAM, VPC, and Load Balancers.
- Automate infrastructure using Terraform while implementing security and cost optimization best practices.
- Build and integrate Agentic AI solutions using LangChain, AutoGen, CrewAI, or custom LLM agents for automation, developer productivity, and operational workflows.
Required Skills
- 8+ years of backend software development experience building and deploying production-grade web services.
- Strong expertise in Kubernetes (CKA/CKAD preferred) with experience running both stateful and stateless workloads.
- Hands-on experience with distributed systems in large-scale production environments.
- Strong knowledge of AWS, Google Cloud Platform, or Azure and core cloud services.
- Proficiency in Go, Java, or Python (Node.js is a plus).
- Practical experience building or integrating AI agents into DevOps, engineering, or product workflows.
Aspire IT Solutions is an equal opportunity employer.
All applicants must submit accurate information; misrepresentation may disqualify candidacy.
This role may require background checks/work authorization verification.
Rate/benefits are negotiable.
Aspire IT Solutions reserves the right to modify or withdraw this posting.