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Qualcomm is a leading American semiconductor and telecommunications company based in San Diego, CA.
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The Kubernetes Platform Engineer (IT Engineer Staff) joins the Information Technology Group to manage high-performance bare-metal on-prem and cloud-based multi-tenant Kubernetes clusters using Rancher. This role involves constructing, deploying, managing, and troubleshooting infrastructure while monitoring performance for GPU-accelerated workloads. Key responsibilities include developing platform automation scripts, implementing self-healing systems, testing new Kubernetes versions, and migrating policies to Validating Admission Policy. The ideal candidate possesses expertise in Linux, Ubuntu, Docker, ContainerD, and Git. Technical requirements include proficiency with Kustomize, Helm, Cilium networking, Python or Go, and Bash scripting. Experience with GKE, EKS, AKS, Datadog, Open Policy Agent, and GitHub Actions is highly valued. The role focuses on solving complex infrastructure challenges by managing multi-tenancy patterns like vcluster and integrating high-performance compute platforms within a mature engineering environment.