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Principal Kubernetes Platform Engineer

🔥 2 hours ago

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📋 Description

• Lead the design, implementation, and optimization of our extensive Kubernetes-based infrastructure. • Work extensively with AWS services, mostly EKS, leveraging native tools and features to deliver cutting-edge cloud solutions. • Demonstrate deep hands-on experience with ArgoCD to implement GitOps practices. • Manage service meshes, traffic routing, and advanced observability features using Istio. • Create modular, reusable templates for application deployment using Helm. • Serve as the expert on K8s and Service Mesh, acting as the technical authority for the organization on these subjects.

🎯 Requirements

• In depth knowledge and hands-on experience with microservices and Service Mesh architectures at scale. Specifically discovery, service to service communication patterns and high availability deployments on Kubernetes clusters based on Istio. • In depth knowledge of the AWS cloud infrastructure and all its major components such as VPC, IAM, EC2, ELB, Route53, KMS, Cloudwatch, Cloudtrail. and more specifically running EKS workloads. • High level experience with at least one programming/scripting language such as Java, or Python as well as Bash in an enterprise environment. • Hands-on experience with infrastructure provisioning and continuous deployment with Terraform and ArgoCD as well as extensive experience with Helm as a templating tool. • Extensive knowledge of DevOps/GitOps and best practices for modern DevOps Operations and software development. • Experience with security best practices related to infrastructure and platform design. • Experience with supporting ML workloads in Kubernetes cloud deployed clusters • Excellent communication skills to interact with all the stakeholders of the platform. These include service owners and fellow devOps engineers and architects both within and outside the team. • Proficiency in written professional English to create design and other supporting documents • Extensive experience in troubleshooting complex issues in cooperation with SREs, service owners and other team members • Additional experience with the following is appreciated but not required: Multi-cluster architectures for Service Mesh and specifically with Istio multi-primary deployments

🏖️ Benefits

• Upwork is proudly committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workforce. We never discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical condition), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. • Additionally, a criminal background check may be run on a candidate after a condi