K3S Engineer

Portland, TX - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 30+ days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Job Title: K3S Engineer
Job Location: Portland Oregon
Jon Duration: 3 Months Contract to Hire

Job Summary:

K3s Deployment & Hybrid Cluster Management
The K3SEngineer will contribute to Converixs platform by managing Kubernetes (K3s) deployments across hybrid architectures (x86 ARM and specialized accelerators).
The role ensures multi-node configurations are provisioned operated and maintained reliably enabling application manifests to be deployed in a declarative GitOps-driven way.
This work provides the foundation for higher-level PaaS services and developer self-service.

Job Responsabilities:

Cluster Provisioning & Configuration

Deploy and configure K3s clusters across heterogeneous hardware (bare metal ARM/x86 nodes and accelerators).
Manage hybrid multi-node topologies (single-node edge clusters dual-node HA and multi-node deployments).
Define and maintain consistent OS images networking and storage settings across nodes.

Declarative Deployment Enablement

Implement GitOps workflows for declarative application management (e.g. ArgoCD Flux).
Define validate and manage Kubernetes manifests Helm charts and CRDs.
Automate lifecycle management of applications and infrastructure through declarative pipelines.

Operations & Reliability

Monitor and maintain cluster health including networking storage and node availability.
Implement self-healing scaling and failover strategies for hybrid deployments.
Develop and maintain backup/restore upgrade and security hardening processes.

Integration & Hybrid Architecture

Enable interoperability across ARM and x86 nodes in the same deployment.
Configure workloads to leverage specialized accelerators (e.g. GPUs DPUs FPGAs).
Ensure consistent declarative workflows regardless of underlying hardware architecture.

Collaboration & Documentation

Work with DevOps SRE and PaaS teams to align K3s cluster deployments with platform goals.
Document cluster provisioning deployment flows and operational playbooks.
Train internal teams on hybrid K3s management and declarative deployment practices.

Mandatory Skills:

Hands-on experience with K3s/Kubernetes deployment and lifecycle management.
Strong understanding of multi-node hybrid clusters across x86 ARM and accelerators.
Proficiency with GitOps tools (ArgoCD Flux) and declarative deployment workflows.
Experience with container runtime configuration (containerd CRI-O Docker).
Familiarity with Linux OS images networking (CNI) and storage provisioning (CSI).
Knowledge of infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform Ansible Helm).
Strong debugging skills for cluster bring-up networking and workload scheduling.

Job Title: K3S Engineer Job Location: Portland Oregon Jon Duration: 3 Months Contract to Hire Job Summary: K3s Deployment & Hybrid Cluster Management The K3SEngineer will contribute to Converixs platform by managing Kubernetes (K3s) deployments across hybrid architectures (x86 ARM and specialized ...