Engineer II, Site Reliability, Kubernetes

What you'll do

• Operate and maintain large Kubernetes clusters in data centers and public clouds.
• Troubleshoot problems with nodes, pods, networking, DNS, storage, and the control plane.
• Participate in an on-call rotation to resolve production incidents.
• Execute planned changes including cluster upgrades, certificate rotations, and capacity additions.
• Build and tune alerts and dashboards using Prometheus, Thanos, Alertmanager, and Grafana.
• Write tools in Go or Python to automate repetitive manual tasks.
• Maintain up-to-date runbooks and technical documentation.
• Utilize AI tools to troubleshoot issues and streamline engineering workflows.

What we're looking for

• Must be eligible for CJIS clearance, requiring U.S. citizenship or Green Card/permanent resident status.
• 3+ years of experience in infrastructure, systems, or platform engineering.
• At least 2 years of experience running Kubernetes in production.
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes workloads, services, networking, ingress, DNS, storage, and RBAC.
• Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting skills.
• Experience with Prometheus, Alertmanager, and Grafana.
• Programming or scripting experience in Go or Python.
• Experience with at least one of AWS, GCP, or OCI.
• Experience with Ansible, Terraform, Helm, or similar tools, and with git.
• Experience using AI tools in engineering work.
• Thanos experience (preferred).
• Experience with Kubernetes add-ons such as CoreDNS, ingress controllers, CNI plugins, or cert-manager (preferred).
• Experience deploying microservices (preferred).
• Exposure to writing Kubernetes controllers or operators (preferred).
• Experience with bare metal or on-premises infrastructure (preferred).
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or a similar certification (preferred).
• Experience working with both local and remote teams (preferred).
• Clear written and verbal communication (preferred).
• Comfortable working on your own and knows when to ask the team for help (preferred).
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (preferred).