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You’ll be expected to get into the technical details, writing specifications, deploying and testing Kubernetes environments, troubleshooting issues, validating features, and working alongside engineers to ensure the right capabilities are built and shipped successfully.\nThe ideal candidate combines product management skills with genuine hands-on Kubernetes expertise and is comfortable operating within highly technical engineering environments.\nWhat You’ll Do\nWrite detailed product requirements and technical specifications for Kubernetes and container capabilities, including cluster lifecycle, storage, networking, autoscaling and upgrades.\nDeploy Kubernetes clusters, test new features, reproduce customer issues and validate fixes prior to release.\nWork directly with engineering through sprint planning, backlog grooming, technical design reviews and day-to-day problem solving.\nTriage and prioritize bugs, customer escalations and feature requests based on technical severity and business impact.\nPartner with engineering and QA teams to develop test plans and acceptance criteria for new platform capabilities.\nSupport customer-facing technical teams with product knowledge, demonstrations and Kubernetes troubleshooting.\nEvaluate Kubernetes distributions, platforms and CNCF ecosystem technologies through hands-on installation, testing and comparison.\nContribute to release notes, technical documentation and internal enablement materials.\nWhat We’re Looking For\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related technical discipline.\n5+ years of experience in Product Management, Engineering, DevOps, SRE or a similarly hands-on technical role.\nStrong, practical experience working with Kubernetes and containerized environments.\nComfortable working in a terminal, deploying clusters, reading logs and independently troubleshooting technical issues.\nAbility to work closely with engineers and translate technical requirements into clear, actionable product specifications.\nTechnical Experience\nWe’re particularly interested in candidates with hands-on experience across:\nKubernetes: Control plane components, kubelet, RBAC, namespaces, cluster autoscaling, upgrades and cluster lifecycle management.\nStorage / CSI: Dynamic volume provisioning, snapshots, StorageClasses and storage policies.\nNetworking / CNI: Pod networking, overlay networks and connectivity troubleshooting.\nMulti-cluster & multi-tenant environments: Namespace isolation and multi-tenancy configurations.\nInfrastructure-as-Code: Terraform and/or Ansible for provisioning, automation and testing.\nCNCF ecosystem: Prometheus, Grafana, Calico or similar cloud-native technologies.\nScripting: Python, Bash and/or Go for testing, automation and lightweight tooling.\nVirtualization: Exposure to Kubernetes running on VMware, KVM-based hypervisors or bare metal would be advantageous.\nWhat Will Make You Successful\nYou’re someone who enjoys getting into the technical details rather than operating solely at the roadmap or strategy level. 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