Kubernetes, Linux, Infra, Devops Milpitas - CA - California

Experience: 10+ years in infrastructure engineering, including hands-on Kubernetes administration and architecture, DevOPs

Skill set:

Must to have - Kubernetes, Linux, Infra, Devops

Good to have - Ceph storage, networking

Key Responsibilities

- Design and implement enterprise infrastructure across bare-metal, virtualized and hybrid environments, covering capacity, availability, networking, storage and disaster recovery.

- Deploy, administer and troubleshoot Rancher-managed RKERKE2 Kubernetes clusters, containerized applications and distributed computing platforms.

- Manage Kubernetes lifecycle activities, including control-plane HA, worker provisioning, upgrades, etcd backuprecovery and workload resilience.

- Administer Linux systems, networking, file systems and storage technologies perform capacity planning and performance tuning for production workloads.

- Design and operate Ceph storage, including MON, MGR, OSD, MDS and RGW services, and integrate RBDCephFS with Kubernetes through CSI.

- Configure Kubernetes networking, ingress, load balancing, DNS, certificates, network policies and persistent storage.

- Automate cluster provisioning, installation, configuration management and deployment orchestration using Ansible, Terraform and appropriate provisioning platforms.

- Develop Python, Bash and other automation tools for installation, validation, monitoring, health checks and operational workflows.

- Diagnose Linux device-driver, kernel-module and operating-system issues, ensuring compatibility across hardware, firmware and software dependencies.

- Evaluate and qualify enterprise server platforms, validating BIOS settings, BMCIPMI firmware, hardware health and system configurations.

- Deploy and support GPU-accelerated infrastructure, including NVIDIA drivers, CUDA and AIML platforms optimize compute-intensive workloads.

- Configure and troubleshoot high-performance networking using NVIDIAMellanox technologies, RDMA, RoCE, InfiniBand and high-speed Ethernet.

- Implement observability, logging and cluster health management using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, OpenTelemetry or equivalent platforms.

- Establish GitOps, CICD, Helm and Infrastructure-as-Code practices, including automated validation, release management and rollback procedures.

- Implement enterprise identity integration, RBAC, secrets management, security hardening and container security controls.

- Support secure, mission-critical and air-gapped environments, including customer deployments, controlled upgrades and critical incident resolution.

- Lead troubleshooting and root-cause analysis across applications, Kubernetes, Linux, storage, networking, GPUs and server hardware.

- Coordinate with vendors, customers and cross-functional teams to resolve integration issues and deliver validated infrastructure.

- Maintain architecture diagrams, configuration baselines, runbooks and recovery procedures mentor engineers and lead operational handover.

Preferred qualifications

- CKAD, CKA, CKS or relevant Linuxcloud certifications.