12 Yrs Remote - Kubernetes Engineer - Google Cloud

Kubernetes Engineer

Position Summary The Kubernetes Engineer is a specialist responsible for the design, deployment, and operations of all GKE clusters in the H100 platform. This includes the KCC management cluster (Config Connector, Config Sync, Policy Controller), the GitHub Actions runner clusters (ARC, External Secrets Operator), and any future tenant workload clusters. You will ensure cluster security hardening, node pool optimization, workload scheduling, and GitOps delivery are operating at enterprise-grade reliability.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and operate GKE clusters: private clusters with Shielded Nodes, Workload Identity, CMEK encryption, custom node SAs
• Manage Config Connector (KCC) on the management cluster: namespace isolation, ConfigConnectorContext per project, IAM SA bindings
• Operate Config Sync across multiple clusters: RootSync/RepoSync configuration, Git/OCI/Helm sources, drift detection and remediation
• Deploy and manage ARC (Actions Runner Controller) on runner clusters: scale-set configuration, autoscaling, ephemeral runner lifecycle
• Implement and manage External Secrets Operator (ESO): ClusterSecretStore for Google Cloud Platform Secret Manager, ExternalSecret resources for GitHub App credentials