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The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in Kubernetes, container orchestration, cloud-native technologies, platform engineering, automation, observability, and DevOps practices. This role will be responsible for developing a scalable, secure, and highly available Kubernetes ecosystem that enables application teams to rapidly deploy, manage, and modernize workloads. The candidate will work closely with cloud teams, infrastructure teams, application development teams, security teams, and SRE teams to deliver a robust cloud-native platform.\nKey Responsibilities\nKubernetes Platform Architecture\nDesign and implement enterprise Kubernetes platforms across cloud and hybrid environments.\nDefine platform standards, governance controls, and architectural best practices.\nBuild scalable, resilient, and highly available Kubernetes clusters.\nDevelop container platform roadmaps aligned with cloud strategy.\nEstablish multi-cluster and multi-region Kubernetes architectures.\nSupport application modernization and cloud-native transformation initiatives. ________________________________________ Kubernetes Administration & Operations\nDeploy, upgrade, patch, and manage Kubernetes clusters.\nPerform cluster lifecycle management and capacity planning.\nOptimize cluster performance, resource utilization, and availability.\nConfigure namespaces, RBAC, network policies, storage classes, and quota management.\nTroubleshoot complex platform, networking, storage, and container issues.\nEnsure platform reliability and operational excellence. ________________________________________ Containerization & Cloud-Native Solutions\nDesign and implement containerized application environments.\nSupport Docker and OCI-compliant container technologies.\nDevelop best practices for: o Container security o Container lifecycle management o Image management o Registry management\nEnable microservices architecture adoption.\nSupport modern cloud-native application deployments. ________________________________________ Platform Automation\nImplement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and GitOps practices.\nAutomate Kubernetes provisioning and configuration management.\nDevelop reusable deployment templates and platform services.\nBuild self-service capabilities for development teams.\nAutomate platform monitoring, compliance, and operational processes. Tools:\nTerraform\nAnsible\nHelm\nArgoCD\nFluxCD\nGitHub Actions\nAzure DevOps ________________________________________ DevOps & CI/CD Enablement\nDesign and support CI/CD pipelines for Kubernetes workloads.\nIntegrate Kubernetes with enterprise DevOps toolchains.\nSupport continuous deployment and release automation.\nImprove deployment speed, reliability, and application availability.\nEstablish standardized deployment frameworks. Platforms:\nAzure DevOps\nGitHub Enterprise\nJenkins\nGitLab CI/CD ________________________________________ Kubernetes Security\nImplement Kubernetes security best practices and governance controls.\nConfigure and manage: o RBAC o Pod Security Standards o Network Policies o Secrets Management o Service Mesh Security\nIntegrate security scanning into CI/CD pipelines.\nSupport Zero Trust architecture initiatives.\nConduct platform security assessments and remediation activities. Security Technologies:\nHashiCorp Vault\nAqua Security\nPrisma Cloud\nMicrosoft Defender for Containers\nTrivy\nFalco ________________________________________ Service Mesh & Traffic Management\nDesign and support service mesh implementations.\nConfigure traffic routing, ingress controllers, and API gateways.\nImplement secure service-to-service communication.\nEnable application observability and resilience patterns. Technologies:\nIstio\nLinkerd\nNGINX Ingress\nKong\nAmbassador ________________________________________ Monitoring & Observability\nBuild enterprise observability solutions for Kubernetes platforms.\nImplement centralized logging, monitoring, and alerting.\nDefine SLOs, SLIs, and platform health metrics.\nSupport Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices. 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