Staff Site Reliability Engineer Kubernetes

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If you like to be challenged and have a passion for solving large-scale automation testing and tuning problems we would love to hear from you. The ideal candidate is someone who exemplifies the ethics of If you have to do something more than once automate it and who can rapidly self-educate on new concepts and tools.

The Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) will play a key role in building and managing Kubernetes platforms that support cloud-native applications and services. This position focuses on architecting and managing reliable scalable and secure Kubernetes-based platforms on AWS ensuring high availability and performance while optimizing costs and automation. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with AWS infrastructure Kubernetes platform creation Helm charts Karpenter scaling and Istio service mesh.

• Kubernetes Platform Creation: Design implement and maintain highly available scalable and fault-tolerant Kubernetes platforms. Ensure clusters are optimized for production workloads providing high resilience and operational efficiency.
• AWS Infrastructure Management: Build manage and optimize AWS cloud infrastructure including EKSECS S3 VPCs RDS IAM and more. Implement best practices for cost management scaling and security within AWS.
• Helm Management: Utilize Helm to automate and streamline the deployment of applications and services to Kubernetes clusters. Create maintain and manage Helm charts for production-ready deployments.
• Karpenter Implementation: Implement and manage Karpenter to dynamically scale Kubernetes clusters in response to workload demands.
• Istio Service Mesh Management: Configure and manage Istio to provide service-to-service communication security and observability within the Kubernetes clusters. Enable fine-grained traffic management service discovery and policy enforcement.
• Platform Automation & Scaling: Automate the deployment scaling and management of infrastructure and applications. Work with CI/CD pipelines to ensure a seamless flow from development to production with minimal downtime.
• Incident Management & Troubleshooting: Respond to incidents troubleshoot and resolve system issues related to performance availability and security in a timely and effective manner.
• Security & Compliance: Design and implement secure cloud infrastructure with appropriate access controls network security and compliance frameworks.
• Documentation & Knowledge Sharing: Create and maintain detailed documentation for Kubernetes platform setup operational procedures and best practices. Promote knowledge sharing across teams.
  
  

• 4 years of experience with Kubernetes/Helm;
• 4 years of Experience with Terraform.
• 5 years of Experience with AWS
• Experience with multi-region cloud environments.
• Proven experience with AWS (EC2 RDS S3 CloudFormation IAM etc.) and solid understanding of cloud-native architectures.
• Strong expertise in Kubernetes platform creation management and optimisation (e.g. setting up highly available clusters networking and storage).
• Hands-on experience with Helm for Kubernetes application deployment and management.
• Practical experience with Karpenter for dynamic scaling of Kubernetes clusters and optimising resource usage.
  Expertise in managing and securing Istio for service mesh including traffic management security and observability features.
• Proficiency in CI/CD pipelines and automation tools (e.g. Jenkins GitLab CircleCI Terraform Ansible Spinnaker).
  Strong scripting and automation skills in Python Bash or Go for infrastructure management and platform automation.
• Experience with monitoring logging and alerting tools such as Prometheus Grafana CloudWatch and ELK Stack.
  
  

• Understanding of security best practices for cloud platforms and Kubernetes (e.g. role-based access control (RBAC) encryption and compliance frameworks).
• Familiarity with Docker and containerization principles.
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or related field (or equivalent professional experience).
• Certifications (Preferred): CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator) CKAD (Certified Kubernetes Application Developer) or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer are highly desirable.

Additional requirements:

• This position requires the ability to access federal environments and/or have access to protected federal data. As a condition of employment for this position the successful candidate must be able to submit documentation establishing U.S. Person status (e.g. a U.S. Citizen National Lawful Permanent Resident Refugee or Asylee. 22 CFR 120.15) upon hire.
• Requires in-person onboarding and travel to our San Francisco CA HQ office or our Chicago office during the first week of employment.

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