Kubernetes Platform Engineer

Role; Kubernetes Platform Engineer
Location: Okemos, MI
Duration: Longterm
Rate: Market

Description:

• Contributes to the design and implementation of a software engineering culture that unifies Application Development and Operations.

• Will assist in engineering solutions that maximize the throughput of code releases through automated, secure and portable tools and functions.

Responsibilities:

• Participates in the analysis, design and development of technical specifications, programming, and testing of DevOps components.

• Participates in design and scripting reviews to ensure that design and enterprise programming standards and guidelines are followed. Assist with creating or updating the enterprise standards when gaps are identified.

• Assists team members in issue resolution, scalability metrics, integration issues, and critical production issues as required.

• Follows technology best practices and standards and escalates any issues as they deem appropriate. Follows architecture and design best practices (as guided by the Senior Engineer, Lead DevOps Engineer & Architectural team).

• Responsible for assisting in configuration and scripting to implement fully automated infrastructure provisioning, image builds, and instance deployment capabilities.

• Follows standard change control and configuration management practices.

• Participates in 24-hour on-call rotation in support of the platform.

Required Skills/Qualifications

• Drive and desire to automate repeatable processes

• Excellent interpersonal skills and communication, as well as the willingness to collaborate with teams across the organization

• Experience in DevOps practices, infrastructure, scripting/programming.

• Linux/Unix OS experience

• Kubernetes experience

Desired Skills/Qualifications

• Experience working with Kubernetes in an Enterprise environment

• Working knowledge of cloud technologies (eg. OpenStack, Azure, AWS, etc.), container concepts (eg. Docker), infrastructure deployment tools (eg. Ansible, Chef, Terraform), CI/CD tools (eg. ArgoCD, Jenkins, GitHub Actions)

Reminders:

• Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States.

• Remote positions must be within the United States

• Contractors working at Delta Dental of Michigan (DDMI) are expressly prohibited from performing services from any remote locations existing outside of the United States unless advanced written authorization is obtained from DDMI.

• Authorization for contractors to perform services outside of the United States will be granted only in limited circumstances as determined at DDMI's sole discretion.

• Such requests should be made in writing and to the DDMI manager overseeing their engagement.