Kubernetes Engineer

Required Qualifications

• Typically 35 years of experience in Kubernetes/OpenShift engineering container platform operations or infrastructure automation.
• Demonstrated ability to partner across teams and act as a liaison helping applicationdevelopment teams onboard to and adopt Kubernetes/OpenShift.
• Hands-on experience maintaining production Red Hat OpenShift Container Platformclusters including upgrades scaling and day-2 operations.
• Strong familiarity with the OpenShift platform architecture including control plane/worker node lifecycle Operators/OLM and cluster upgrades.
• Familiarity with Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management (ACM) for multi-cluster policygovernance and application lifecycle management.
• Solid understanding of Kubernetes core concepts pods deployments servicesingress/routes namespaces RBAC persistent storage and networking (OVN-
  Kubernetes/SDN Calico).
• Experience managing Kubernetes networking and traffic management concepts including HAProxy load balancer services ingress controllers and routes for exposing and load- balancing application traffic.
• Experience with container security practices including image scanning Security ContextConstraints and secrets management.
• Experience with monitoring/observability tooling incident response change management runbooks rollback planning and on-call support.
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or Certified Kubernetes Application Developer(CKAD) certifications or equivalent hands-on experience.
• Strong technical documentation troubleshooting and stakeholder communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure and/or other public cloud platforms (AWS GCP OCI) including Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO) or AKS.
• Hands-on experience with OpenShift GitOps (Argo CD) including managing Applicationsand ApplicationSets for automated git-based deployments.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins GitLab CI Tekton ArgoCDor similar) integrated with container registries and Kubernetes deployments.
• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code and configuration management tools (AnsibleHelm Kustomize Terraform) and Git-based workflows.
• Experience with advanced Argo CD patterns such as the app-of-apps model and multi-cluster ApplicationSets for fleet-wide deployments.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes storage solutions (OpenShift Data Foundation/Ceph NetApp
• Trident CSI drivers).
• Experience using AI tools for log analysis anomaly detection or operational automation.
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Technology or a related field orequivalent practical experience.

Certain states and localities require employers to post a reasonable estimate of the salary range. A reasonable estimate of the current base pay range for this position is $90000 to $135000 annually. Actual salary will be based on a variety of factors including shift location experience skill set performance licensure and certification and business needs. The range for this position in other geographic locations may differ. Certain positions may also be eligible for variable incentive compensation such as bonuses or commissions that are not included in thebasepay.

The well-being of WWT employees is essential. When it comes to our benefits package WWThasone of the best. We offer the following benefits to all full-time employees:

• Health and Wellbeing:Health (Medical & Prescription) Dental and Vision Care Onsite Health Centers (MO & IL) Employee Assistance Program Wellness program
• Financial Benefits: Competitive Pay Profit Sharing 401k Plan with Company Matching Life and Disability Insurance Flexible Spending Accounts Tuition Reimbursement
• Paid Time Off:PTO & Holidays Parental Leave Medical Leave Military Leave Bereavement Day of Caring
• Additional Perks:Family Planning Benefits Nursing Mothers Benefits Voluntary Legal Voluntary Supplemental Accident/Illness/Hospital Voluntary ID Theft Pet Insurance Employee Discount Program

Note: This is not an all-encompassing list and should not be used as a complete description of the plans benefits. For more information seeourUS Benefits Website

We strive to create an environment where all employees are empowered to succeed based on their skills performance and dedication. Our goal is to cultivate a culture of belonging that encourages innovation collaboration and respect for all team members ensuring that WWTremainsa great placeto work for all!

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What is the Internal WWT IT Team and why join

The Internal WWT IT team is the backbone of our companys technological infrastructure ensuring seamless operations and continuous innovation. Our team is dedicated to managing and supporting the companys technology infrastructure ensuring the smooth operation of hardware software networks and data systems while providing top-notch technical support to employees.

By joining the Internal WWT IT team you will play a crucial role inmaintainingthe efficiency and security of our IT environment enabling the company to achieve its strategic goals. The Internal IT team offers the opportunity to work in a dynamic and collaborative environment where your contributions will have a direct impact on the companys success. If you are passionate about technology and eager to take on new challenges we encourage you to apply and join our team.

As a Kubernetes Engineer OpenShift youll sit at the center of WWTs container platform strategy in a role that blends strong partnership and hands-on engineering. Youll act as a liaison between the infrastructure team and application development teams helping them design containerize and onboard their workloads to Kubernetes and OpenShift guiding them through approved standards self-service patterns and best practices for running applications on the platform.

Youll also help design deploy and maintain large-scale highly available Red Hat OpenShift clusters and build and maintain the CI/CD and GitOps pipelines that move application code from commit to production safely and efficiently. Youll help extend these platform capabilities into the cloud with exposure to Microsoft Azure and other cloud platforms as WWTs container strategy grows.

With guidance from senior engineers youll join an on-call rotation and make a direct impact on the reliability security performance and scalability of the platforms application teams depend on.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a liaison between the infrastructure team and application development teams guiding them through onboarding containerization patterns and self-service deployment to Kubernetes/OpenShift.
• Assist in designing building and maintaining OpenShift clusters control plane workernodes networking storage and Operators ensuring high availability performance andcapacity for production workloads.
• Maintain OpenShift platform health through node lifecycle management cluster upgrades and Operator Lifecycle Manager (OLM) keeping the fleet current and secure.
• Build maintain and continuously improve CI/CD and GitOps pipelines that automate build test and deployment for application teams.
• Manage and maintain Argo CD Applications and ApplicationSets driving automated git-based deployment and lifecycle management of workloads across clusters.
• Use Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management (ACM) to manage policy governance andapplication lifecycle across multiple OpenShift clusters.
• Partner with application development teams to containerize applications define resource requests/limits and autoscaling policies and design namespace RBAC and network policy structures.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code and automation (Ansible Helm KustomizeTerraform) to standardize cluster provisioning configuration and upgrades.
• Partner with security team to implement and maintain platform security controls including image scanning Security Context Constraints admission policies (e.g. OPA/Gatekeeper) and secrets management (Vault).
• Configure and maintain monitoring logging and alerting (Prometheus Grafana) to ensure platform health and rapid incident response.
• Extend platform capabilities into the cloud working with Microsoft Azure (Azure Red HatOpenShift/AKS) and other cloud platforms to support hybrid and multi-cloud container strategies.
• Maintain reliability through capacity planning backup and disaster recovery changemanagement and tested rollback procedures; execute change tickets with validation; andparticipate in an on-call rotation.
• Produce technical documentation runbooks and onboarding guides communicatingclearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.