Google / Apigee Kubernetes Engineer SR

What youll 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 were looking for...

Youll need to have:

• Bachelors 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.)