Position: Senior Kubernetes Architect
Company: SkySilk
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

This person will lead the effort to develop, test, deploy, and document Kubernetes-based solutions. This person will partner with Infrastructure, DevOps, and Core practices like Security, Identity, CloudOps, Cloud platform, and tools teams to identify and implement automation opportunities to optimize, secure, enhance performance, and improve overall system reliability.

The candidate should have work experience working in SRE/Operations/DevOps roles and expertise in architecting, managing, and running HA distributed systems. SkySilk is a strong believer in the open-source software movement; the ideal candidate would be comfortable using open-source resources and tools.

**Key Responsibilities:**
- Design, build & maintain large scale high performing, secure Kubernetes and other application platform infrastructure 
- Own the infrastructure: build, release, monitor, and run the services to improve service reliably
- Work on config management/orchestration suite, know where it's broken, work towards fixing them and explore new alternatives
- Handle cross-team performance issues from identification of the cause, determining the areas of improvement, and driving those actions to closure
- Performance and maturity baselining of DevOps process, tools maturity & coverage, metrics, technology, and engineering practices
- Define, measure, and improve reliability metrics, observability (Monitoring, Logging-Tracing solutions), Ops process (Incident, Problem Management), and streamline – automate the release management
- Be a subject matter expert, able to upskill/cross skill engineering teams on SRE principles, tools, and execution
- DevOps, Debugging skills, experience in logging and monitoring solutions such as Elastic Search, Kibana, Prometheus, AWS CloudWatch/Cloud Metrics, etc.
- Troubleshoot, debug, and diagnose operational issues and drive them to closure.

**Requirements:**
- Proven experience in handling infrastructure across Data Centers and heterogeneous Cloud platforms
- Experience with various Kubernetes platforms (OpenShift, EKS, AKS, GKE)
- Proven experience in designing and building large-scale high-performing, secure Kubernetes and other application platform infrastructure.
- Experience with scripting and orchestration
- Experience with monitoring tools such as ELK, Grafana, Prometheus, or equivalent
- Experience with public cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Experience automating the software dev/test/deployment lifecycle with continuous integration and continuous deployment
- Experience with scaling, monitoring, and troubleshooting actively running systems
- Experience in building monitoring/metrics & alerting tool (APM tool), a custom dashboard for each Application stack against the supported environment
- Experience in container networking & security, image scanning for vulnerabilities using tools, Source code management and Implementation of Security best practices, other DevSecOps principles, and tools.
- Excellent hands-on experience with Unix/Linux-OS Internals and administration.
- Excellent hands-on of Containerization using platforms and tools like – Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins, git, Grafana, etc.
- Understanding of software delivery lifecycles, particularly Agile/Lean & DevOps
- Unix/Linux system operation and administration
- Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure components.
- Must have expert-level knowledge of Kubernetes. Certifications (Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) / Developer ( CKAD) are a plus.
- Production experience working with K8s, EKS, AKS, OpenShift, etc
- Solid understanding of automation principles and scripting experience (eg. Python, Bash, Ansible/etc)

**We offer:**
- Remote, full-time, flexible schedule
- Work directly with an American company
- Competitive salary
- Financial growth by results of work
- Daily meetings and productive work in the team
- Medical insurance and sport compensation
- Gifts for important life events, work trips, team events