Kubernetes Platform Engineer (IT Engineer Senior)

Company:

Qualcomm Incorporated

Job Area:

Information Technology Group, Information Technology Group > IT Engineering

General Summary:

Qualcomm IT seeks a Kubernetes generalist who can assist with the construction, deployment, management, automation, and troubleshooting of high performance bare-metal on-prem and cloud-based multi-tenant Kubernetes clusters using Rancher.  Kubernetes distributions in use are RKE2 (on-prem) and GKE, EKS, AKS (cloud).  Day-to-day tasks include monitoring performance and availability of all Kubernetes clusters (including high performance GPU acceleration), as well as developing and deploying platform automation scripts and software. 

Candidates will join a mature and experienced team of Kubernetes platform administrators with a wide range of skill levels.  Candidates will have many opportunities for growth through project work and coaching from mentors.  Examples of possible project work include implementation of self-healing system automation; testing, validation, and deployment of new Kubernetes versions; transformation of existing platform automation to make use of new Kubernetes functionality; testing and integration of new high performance bare-metal compute platforms; implementation and troubleshooting of novel Kubernetes multi-tenancy patterns such as vcluster; migration of Gatekeeper OPA policies to Validating Admission Policy.

This role requires full-time onsite work in San Diego, CA (5 days per week).

**This position is not eligible for Qualcomm immigration sponsorship.**

Baseline requirements:

·         Comfortable using and developing on Linux as a primary OS, especially Ubuntu.

·         2+ years Kubernetes administration experience.

o    Intermediate knowledge of Kubernetes CNI networking internals (notably Cilium).

o    Direct experience deploying and maintaining enterprise Kubernetes clusters.

·         Proficiency with Docker/ContainerD and Linux container internals.

·         Advanced proficiency with git and Github.

·         Knowledge of Kubernetes control plane architecture and troubleshooting.

·         Intermediate proficiency with Python or Go.

·         Intermediate proficiency with bash scripting.

·         Comfortable with Agile project management in JIRA.

Beneficial additional experience:

·         Recent CKAD and CKA certifications.  CKS certification is a plus.

·         Bare-metal Kubernetes management with Rancher, RKE2, and Cilium.

·         Cloud Kubernetes management (GKE, EKS and AKS).

·         Datadog log and metrics collection; dashboarding.

·         Open Policy Agent (OPA) and Gatekeeper OPA.

·         Kubernetes Ingress/Gateway API implementations.

·         Deployment and management of Portworx and MetalLB.

·         Creating CI/CD workflows using Github Actions.

·         Experience with GPU-accelerated workloads in Kubernetes.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 3+ years of IT-related work experience with a Bachelor's degree.
OR
5+ years of IT-related work experience without a Bachelor’s degree.