Hello,
Hope you are doing great.
This is Gangadhar from Intellectt INC; we have an immediate opportunity with one of our clients. Please find the below job description and if you are interested, please forward your resume to gangadhar@intellectt.com
Role: Kubernetes Engineer
Location: Irvine, CA (Hybrid)
Duration: Long Term
Description:
Seeking a Kubernetes Engineer with deep expertise in container orchestration and CNCF ecosystem tooling. This role will focus on designing, managing, and troubleshooting Kubernetes clusters to provide a resilient and scalable platform for application teams. Looking for strong communication skills, high energy, taking ownership, and not afraid to engage with customers.
Qualifications:
- Strong knowledge of Kubernetes internals and APIs.
- Good experience in scripting in Python.
- Hands-on experience with AWS EKS and/or self-managed Kubernetes.
- Experience with Helm, Operators, and CRDs.
- Familiarity with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK).
- Strong communication skills, high energy, take ownership and not afraid to engage with customers.
- Kubernetes certifications (CKA, CKAD) preferred.
- Strong Kubernetes knowledge with Red Hat OpenShift Operator framework is a plus.
- Experience with Portworx (installation, configuration, troubleshooting) is a plus.
Responsibilities:
- Administer Kubernetes clusters (EKS, self-managed, and hybrid).
- Automate cluster provisioning, upgrades, and scaling.
- Monitor and troubleshoot containerized workloads and cluster-level issues.
- Implement RBAC, network policies, and security best practices.
- Support CI/CD pipelines and GitOps-based deployments (ArgoCD, Flux).
- Integrate CNCF tools (service mesh, observability, policy management).
- Collaborate with developers to ensure optimal application performance on Kubernetes.