Kubernetes

Requirements:

• Strong hands-on RHEL/Linux administration and troubleshooting experience in enterprise environments.
• Strong knowledge of Linux storage, LVM, filesystems, RAID, server hardware, and system performance troubleshooting.
• Strong understanding of networking, TCP/IP, DNS, routing, load balancing, SSH, TLS/SSL, certificates, and PKI.
• Experience with enterprise storage and Pure Storage integration with Kubernetes, including CSI, persistent volumes, storage classes, and dynamic provisioning.
• Hands-on automation and scripting experience using Shell/Bash, Python, and Ansible.
• Experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for automated and repeatable infrastructure provisioning.
• Hands-on experience with Helm, Argo CD, and GitOps for Kubernetes application and platform deployments.
• Strong working knowledge of Git/GitHub and CI/CD pipelines, including version control, automated deployments, and environment promotion.
• Experience with container technologies including Docker and Podman, container images, registries, networking, storage, and runtime troubleshooting.
• Experience implementing observability and monitoring using Prometheus and Grafana, including metrics, dashboards, alerting, and performance analysis.
• Experience designing and operating highly available, scalable, resilient Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) environments supporting mission-critical workloads.
• Experience supporting platforms for large-scale data ingestion, ETL, distributed data processing, and high-throughput workloads.
• Strong end-to-end troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills across hardware -> storage -> OS -> network -> containers -> Kubernetes -> platform services -> applications.
• Experience with using LLDP for hardware network-layer identification and TCPDUMP for network troubleshooting.
• Strong knowledge equivalent to CCENT / Network+ for server network configurations / validations, inclusive of NIC bonding and LACP requirements.

Skills

Kubernetes, Linux, Terraform