Director, Kubernetes Platforms

Who Are We?

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Job Category

Technology

Compensation Overview

The annual base salary range provided for this position is a nationwide market range and represents a broad range of salaries for this role across the country. The actual salary for this position will be determined by a number of factors, including the scope, complexity and location of the role; the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of employment. As part of our comprehensive compensation and benefits program, employees are also eligible for performance-based cash incentive awards.

Salary Range

$129,200.00 - $213,200.00

Target Openings

1

What Is the Opportunity?

We are seeing a Director, Kubernetes Platforms to lead and manage Travelers’ Kubernetes Based platforms. This team lead will leverage a product-focus, value defined methodology to define platform capabilities, partner with line-of-business application teams and ensure best-in-class operational success of a strategic application hosting platform. The Director, Kubernetes Platforms will foster a culture of innovation to enable strategic business solutions, optimize operating costs and drive workforce strategy via talent development and leadership.

What Will You Do?

• Lead the Kubernetes Platform Product within the Managed Container Services team.

• Lead and coach a team of 5+ platform engineers.

• Define self-service offerings and a product driven mindset to drive seamless adoption and usage by platform users.

• Set the strategic direction for new and existing Kubernetes Platform capabilities.

• Manage the operational success and reliability of a large fleet of Kubernetes clusters.

• Define and execute on regular platform currency and upgrade lifecycles to align with support.

• Manage and ensure on-call support for incident resolution as appropriate.

• Define new evaluations and proof-of-concepts to address identified gaps and expand platform capabilities.

• Regularly engage with Stakeholders and Consumers to understand Platform Usage.

• Partner with other Product Driven Teams including CyberSecurity, Observability, CI/CD.

• Define, manage and adhere to a set of KPIs to measure operational success.

• Lead product planning and execution via a Scrumban Methodology.

• Support transformation and migration efforts from on-premise to Cloud based Containers.

• Perform other duties as assigned.

What Will Our Ideal Candidate Have?

• Five (5) plus years of Kubernetes experience.

• Five (5) plus years of team leadership/management experience.

• Demonstrated experience in product-driven organizations

• Ability to build and maintain a trusted relationship with stakeholders and partners

• Advanced knowledge of AWS EKS and General Kubernetes

• Understanding of public cloud concepts, specifically AWS

• Comprehensive understanding of containerized application design

• Experience with enterprise-scale application migrations

• Familiarity with CNCF Products and Solutions such as Istio, Argo CD, Cert Manager, Kyverno and more

• Advanced IAC skills using tools like Terraform or Helm

• Familiarity with GitOps principles and tools such as Argo CD

• Bachelors degree preferred in Technology or a similar field (or equivalent experience).

• Manages cross-functional objectives and/or priorities supporting an assigned business area(s).

Technical Skills: Kubernetes • AWS Networking • Docker/OCI Based Containers • Application Networking • Contai