Advanced Specialist–Kubernetes & Cloud Platform

Introduction: A Career at HARMAN Corporate

Were a global multi-disciplinary team thats putting the innovative power of technology to work and transforming tomorrow. At HARMAN Corporate you are integral to our companys award-winning success.

• Enrich your managerial and organizational talents from finance quality and supply chain to human resources IT sales and strategy
• Augment your comprehensive skillset with expert training across decision-making change management leadership and business development
• Obtain 360-degree support throughout your career life cycle from early-stage to seasoned leader

About the Role

The Advanced Specialist Kubernetes Platform role focuses on designing building and operating highly available scalable Kubernetes platforms across hybrid environments including on-premises and cloud services such as AWS EKS and Azure AKS. The engineer will take end-to-end ownership of Kubernetes cluster architecture application deployments using kubectl and Helm and progressively adopt GitOps practices through tools like ArgoCD. The role involves implementing robust observability frameworks using Prometheus Grafana Loki and Mimir to ensure system reliability along with defining and improving SLA/SLO metrics. A significant aspect of the role includes automating infrastructure provisioning using Terraform and scripting managing Kubernetes-native storage and networking and enforcing strong security controls such as RBAC OPA/Gatekeeper network policies and secrets management. Additionally the engineer will design and test backup and disaster recovery strategies lead incident response and root cause analysis and participate in on-call rotations. This position also requires mentoring team members documenting best practices and continuously driving improvements in cloud-native DevOps and Kubernetes ecosystem practices.

What You Will Do

• Design build and manage highly available Kubernetes clusters across hybrid environments (on-premises and cloud platforms such as AWS EKS Azure AKS).
• Deploy and manage applications manually using tools such as kubectl and Helm with growing integration of GitOps practices (e.g. ArgoCD).
• Implement and manage observability stacks using Prometheus Grafana Loki and Mimir to monitor infrastructure applications and system performance.
• Define monitor and improve SLA/SLO/SLI metrics and alerting systems to ensure platform reliability.
• Automate provisioning and configuration of infrastructure using Terraform Helm and scripting languages (e.g. Bash Python).
• Plan implement and test backup and disaster recovery (DR) strategies using tools like Velero Commvault etc.
• Manage Kubernetes-native networking storage and security configurations (Ceph NFS Ingress PodSecurityPolicies etc.).
• Configure and enforce Kubernetes security best practices using RBAC OPA/Gatekeeper NetworkPolicies and secrets management tools.
• Integrate and operate Kubernetes ecosystem tools such as Karpenter MicroK8s Service Meshes and kubectl plugins.
• Conduct root cause analysis (RCA) and lead resolution efforts for incidents.
• Participate in the on-call rotation for platform availability and incident management.
• Maintain up-to-date documentation architecture diagrams runbooks and SOPs.
• Mentor engineers and advocate for Kubernetes security observability and deployment best practices across teams.
• Continuously stay informed of industry trends in container orchestration GitOps security and cloud-native tooling

What You Need to Be Successful

• 69 years of IT/Infrastructure/DevOps experience with 5 years in Kubernetes operations in production environments.
• Strong hands-on experience in Kubernetes architecture cluster operations and manual application deployment practices.
• Intermediate-level experience in Kubernetes Security including:
  • Cluster hardening secrets management
  • Pod Security Standards (PSS) OPA/Gatekeeper
  • Network policies image scanning and runtime protections
• Intermediate experience with ArgoCD for GitOps-style Kubernetes deployments.
• Solid proficiency in Linux system administration (Ubuntu CentOS RHEL) and troubleshooting.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes-native storage (e.g. Ceph NFS) and persistent volume provisioning.
• Strong familiarity with observability tools: Grafana Prometheus Loki Mimir etc.
• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code using Terraform Helm and scripting.
• Experience with Velero Commvault or similar for backup and DR.
• Experience operating and optimizing cloud-native Kubernetes platforms like EKS AKS.
• Exposure to tools like Karpenter MicroK8s Service Mesh and Ingress Controllers.
• Familiarity with AI/ML workloads running on Kubernetes is a plus.

Bonus Points if You Have

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science IT or equivalent

• Strong problem-solving communication and leadership skills

What Makes You Eligible

• Be willing to travel internationally occasionally if required
• Be willing to work in an office

What We Offer

• Flexible work environment allowing for full-time remote work globally for positions that can be performed outside a HARMAN or customer location
• Access to employee discounts on world-class HARMAN and Samsung products (JBL HARMAN Kardon AKG etc.)
• Extensive training opportunities through our own HARMAN University
• Competitive wellness benefits
• Tuition reimbursement
• Be Brilliant employee recognition and rewards program
• An inclusive and diverse work environment that fosters and encourages professional and personal development

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