Google / Apigee Kubernetes Engineer SR

Overview

What you’ll be doing...

You will be part of a World Class Container Platform team that builds and operates highly scalable Kubernetes based container platforms at a large scale for Global Technology Solutions at Verizon, a top 20 Fortune 500 company. This individual will have a high level of technical expertise and be hands-on as part of the product team that is involved in engineering and enabling new products and services. This entitles programming and orchestrating the deployment of feature sets into the Kubernetes CaaS platform along with building Docker containers via a fully automated CI/CD pipeline utilizing AWS, Jenkins Ansible playbooks, AWS, CI/CD tools and process ( Jenkins, JIRA, GitLab, ArgoCD), Python, Shell Scripts or any other scripting technologies You will have autonomous control over researching and doing POCs on new services and products. This individual will lead design, architecture and problem resolution for business impacting failures and drive the resolution to meet platform service level objectives.

Responsibilities

Exposure to different components of a container platform like, Logging, Monitoring, Security and SRE practices

Responsible to provide technical guidance to the product engineering team, including architecture, design, development and end user support

Evaluate new services and solutions to determine value within Verizon

Analyzes new product opportunities/technologies and makes appropriate suggestions for the enhancement of the platform

Perform POC(Proof of Concept) technical evaluations for new technologies for use in the cloud

Requirements

What we’re looking for...

You’ll need to have:

Bachelor’s degree with 7 or more years experience in the IT industry and a relevant experience of 5 or more years in Kubernetes platform automation

Hands-on experience with one or more of the following platforms: EKS, Red Hat OpenShift, GKE, AKS, OCI

GitOps CI/CD workflows (ArgoCD, Flux)and Working in Agile Ceremonies Model

Very Strong Development and Engineering Expertise in the following- Ansible, Terraform, Helm, Jenkins, Gitlab VSC/Pipelines/Runners, Artifactory

Have written Terraform Modules and Code in GitOps setting for K8s Lifecycle Management (any k8s flavor is fine)

Strong proficiency with monitoring/observability tools such as New Relic, Prometheus/Grafana, logging solutions (Fluentd/Elastic/Fluentbit/OTEL/ADOT/Splunk) to include creating/customizing metrics and/or logging dashboards

Familiarity with Cloud cost optimization (e.g. Kubecost, CloudHealth)

Strong experience with infra components like ArgoCD, Flux, cert-manager, Karpenter, Cluster Autoscaler, VPC CNI, Over-provisioning, CoreDNS, metrics-server, Keda

Familiarity with Wireshark, tshark, dumpcap, etc., capturing network traces and performing packet analysis

Demonstrated expertise with the K8S ecosystem (inspecting cluster resources, determining cluster health, identifying potential application issues, etc.)

Strong Bash scripting experience to include automation scripting (netshoot, RBAC lookup, etc.)

Strong Development of K8S tools/components which may include standalone utilities/plugins, cert-manager plugins, etc.

Development and working experience with Istio Service Mesh lifecycle management and configuring, troubleshooting applications deployed on Service Mesh and Service Mesh related issues

Expertise creating, modifying RBAC and Pod Security Standards, Quotas, LimitRanges, OPA & Gatekeeper Policies

Working experience with security tools such as Sysdig, Crowdstrike, Black Duck, Xray, etc.

Demonstrated expertise with the K8s security ecosystem (SCC, network policies, RBAC, CVE remediation, CIS benchmarks/hardening, etc.)

Networking of microservices, solid understanding of Kubernetes networking and troubleshooting

Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

Terraform Certified

Demonstrated very strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills

Excellent verbal communication and written skills

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)

Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist(CKS)

Red Hat Certified OpenShift Administrator

Expertise of SDLC and Agile Development

Development Experience with the Operator SDK, HTTP/RESTful APIs, Microservices

Experience creating validating and/or mutating webhook, Serverless Lambda Development, AWS Event Bridge, AWS Step Functions, DynamoDB, Python

Familiarity with creating custom EnvoyFilters for Istio service mesh and integrating with existing web application portals

Experience with OWASP rules and mitigating security vulnerabilities using security tools like Fortify, Sonarqube, etc.

Backend development experience with languages to include Golang (preferred), Spring Boot, and Python

Database experience (RDBMS, NoSQL, etc.)