Summary
OVA.Work is seeking a skilled Kubernetes Engineer to design, deploy, manage, and optimize Kubernetes-based container platforms for modern cloud-native applications. The role involves collaboration with various teams to build secure, scalable, and highly available Kubernetes environments.
Responsibilities
- Design, deploy, configure, and manage Kubernetes clusters in on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments
- Build and maintain scalable container platforms for microservices-based applications
- Automate infrastructure provisioning and Kubernetes deployments using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and GitOps practices
- Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for containerized applications
- Monitor Kubernetes cluster health, application performance, resource utilization, and availability
- Implement autoscaling, load balancing, networking, ingress, and service discovery solutions
- Configure and manage Kubernetes security, RBAC, network policies, secrets management, and compliance controls
- Troubleshoot cluster, networking, storage, and container runtime issues
- Optimize Kubernetes environments for performance, reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency
- Collaborate with development, DevOps, cloud, and security teams to improve platform reliability
- Maintain documentation, operational procedures, and platform standards
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or a related field
- 3–6 years of experience in Kubernetes, DevOps, Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering
- Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes administration and container orchestration
- Experience with Docker and containerized application deployment
- Proficiency in Linux system administration
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud
- Strong understanding of networking concepts including DNS, TCP/IP, load balancing, ingress, and service mesh fundamentals
- Experience with Git and scripting using Bash, Python, or Go
- Experience with managed Kubernetes services such as Amazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), or Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
- Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, Pulumi, or AWS CloudFormation
- Experience implementing GitOps using Argo CD or Flux
- Knowledge of Helm, Kustomize, and Kubernetes Operators
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK Stack, Datadog, or Splunk
- Familiarity with service mesh technologies such as Istio, Linkerd, or Consul
- Experience with secrets management tools such as HashiCorp Vault or cloud-native secret management services
Qualifications
Must Haves
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or a related field
- 3–6 years of experience in Kubernetes, DevOps, Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering
- Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes administration and container orchestration
- Experience with Docker and containerized application deployment
- Proficiency in Linux system administration
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud
- Strong understanding of networking concepts including DNS, TCP/IP, load balancing, ingress, and service mesh fundamentals
- Experience with Git and scripting using Bash, Python, or Go
Nice to Haves
- Experience with managed Kubernetes services such as Amazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), or Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
- Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, Pulumi, or AWS CloudFormation
- Experience implementing GitOps using Argo CD or Flux
- Knowledge of Helm, Kustomize, and Kubernetes Operators
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK Stack, Datadog, or Splunk
- Familiarity with service mesh technologies such as Istio, Linkerd, or Consul
- Experience with secrets management tools such as HashiCorp Vault or cloud-native secret management services
Benefits
- Competitive salary and performance-based incentives.
- Comprehensive health and wellness benefits.
- Flexible or hybrid work arrangements.
- Learning, certification, and conference sponsorship opportunities.
- Access to modern cloud-native infrastructure and engineering tools.
- Opportunity to work on enterprise-scale Kubernetes platforms supporting mission-critical applications.