Kubernetes Systems Engineer

Austin, TX - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 30+ days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Overview:

TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. This Client is an American multinational semiconductor company based in Santa Clara California that develops computer processors and related technologies for business and consumer markets. global company that specializes in manufacturing semiconductor devices used in computer processing. The company also produces flash memories graphics processors motherboard chip sets and a variety of components used in consumer electronics goods.

Job Title: Kubernetes Systems Engineer

Work Location: Austin TX 78728

Duration: 12 Months

Work Type: Temporary Assignment

Job Type: Hybrid

Job Description:

We are seeking an experienced On-Prem Kubernetes Systems Engineer to manage and support our self-hosted Kubernetes infrastructure.
This role will involve maintaining cluster health troubleshooting both application and infrastructure-level issues and developing new features and automation to improve the performance and reliability of services running in the Kubernetes environment.

Key Responsibilities:

Deploy maintain and scale on-premises Kubernetes clusters.
Troubleshoot and resolve issues across the full stack-containers pods nodes networking and storage.
Collaborate with application developers to identify and fix deployment and runtime issues.
Develop tools operators and automation to streamline workflows and cluster operations.
Monitor cluster performance and resource usage; implement enhancements to improve reliability and scalability.
Write and maintain Helm charts manifests and CI/CD pipelines for Kubernetes-based applications.
Stay current with Kubernetes ecosystem trends and recommend improvements.
Document infrastructure components design decisions and troubleshooting procedures.

Required Qualifications:

Proven experience managing on-prem Kubernetes clusters (Kubeadm RKE etc.).
Proficiency in container technologies like Docker and containerd.
Strong understanding of Linux systems networking and storage as they relate to Kubernetes.
Experience with monitoring tools (Prometheus Grafana etc.).
Familiarity with CI/CD tools (e.g. GitLab CI Jenkins ArgoCD FluxCD).
Experience writing Helm charts Kustomize or other templating tools.
Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills across application and infrastructure layers.
Scripting skills (Bash Python or Go preferred).

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience with service mesh (Istio Linkerd) ingress controllers (NGINX Traefik) or internal DNS.
Familiarity with GitOps and Infrastructure as Code principles.
Exposure to secure Kubernetes practices (RBAC PodSecurityPolicies NetworkPolicies).
Experience supporting high-availability and disaster recovery configurations.

Top 3-5 Must Have Skills for this role:

Ability to diagnose and resolve complex issues involving networking pod scheduling node health and persistent volumes.
Proficient with Helm ArgoCD and GitOps pipelines for cluster and application lifecycle management.
Strong ability to collaborate with mid-level engineers perform code and configuration reviews and guide technical decisions.

TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.

Overview: TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. This Client is an American multinational semiconductor company based in Santa Clara California that develops computer processors an...