Full Time Senior Kubernetes Platform Engineer at InfluxData (United States)
Senior Kubernetes Platform Engineer
InfluxData United States
Date Posted: 20 Jul, 2022
Work Location: San Francisco, United States
Salary Offered: Not Specified
Job Type: Full Time
Experience Required: 1+ years
Remote Work: Yes
Vacancies: 1 available
You'll be using your operations skill, software crafting abilities, and teamwork to maintain and extend foundational technologies to provide highly available Kubernetes infrastructure that powers InfluxDB Cloud in 8 regions on every major cloud provider.
You'll join an awesome globally-distributed team, bringing experience in designing, implementing, and operating large-scale, multi-cloud, Kubernetes-backed infrastructure.
Your teammates work closely together to conquer projects together. They recently nurtured the adoption of SLOs throughout the engineering organization and have several proof-of-concepts running to test out theories and ideas. They’re curious, looking for the next challenge, and eager to welcome you aboard.
What you’ll do:
- Operate and grow numerous Kubernetes clusters on Amazon, Google, and Azure platforms.
- Improve operator and developer ergonomics at scale; iterate on and directly impact and influence the InfluxDB Cloud infrastructure.
- Collaborate with tightly aligned teams to ensure their services are fast and resilient.
- Embrace the challenge of multi-cloud complexity but plan to simplify and streamline our ops practice.
- Mentor teammates on architecture, design, and best practices.
What you’ll need:
- Experience running Kubernetes in production for at least 2 years.
- Strong DevOps/Ops background. We are 100% Linux, Proficiency with Terraform, immutable infrastructure, and familiarity with the GitOps configuration management model.
- Hands-on, production-level experience with AWS, Google, or Azure. We use all three but do not expect you to have mastered them all.
Bonus if you've had experience:
- Operating and being responsible for Kubernetes clusters used by other engineering teams.
- Making data-driven observations and decisions to drive higher performance and reliability.
- Being an incident lead, engaging multiple groups simultaneously to resolve critical problems.
- Thriving in a remote-first, distributed team environment.
- Familiarity with CNCF technologies such as Istio, Kafka, Elasticsearch, ArgoCD, CoreDNS, etcd, Prometheus, Jaeger, and Keda.
- Familiarity with kubeadm clusters: in other words, doing Kubernetes “the hard way.”
About InfluxData
The platform for building and operating time series applications.
Company Size: 51 - 250 People
Year Founded: 2012
Country: United States
Company Status: Actively Hiring
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