4 days ago
San Diego, CA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$130k - $194k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and govern GitOps release processes with Argo CD, including multi-environment promotion workflows, deployment guardrails, documentation, branching, and versioning standards.
- Build and maintain GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines integrating builds, linting, testing, DevSecOps scanning, and Argo CD delivery.
- Implement repository and pull request automation using gitStream and improve code review, routing, and merge workflows.
- Create self-service paved-road templates, platform tooling, and documentation while tracking developer adoption and outcomes.
- Design Terraform modules, state management, and multi-environment infrastructure patterns.
- Contribute to EKS cluster provisioning, lifecycle management, autoscaling, add-on management, and upgrades in multi-tenant environments.
- Improve platform reliability, performance, cost efficiency, observability, and secure-by-default delivery patterns.
- Lead technical standards adoption, architecture and change reviews, technical documentation, mentoring, interviewing, and cross-team communication.
- Support agile delivery practices, backlog management, runbook standards, incident response, and corrective actions; participate in required on-call coverage.
Requirements
- 7+ years of IT-related experience with a bachelor’s degree in computer science, Applied Mathematics, or Engineering, or 10+ years without a degree.
- At least 3 years of production Kubernetes operations experience, including hands-on EKS cluster lifecycle and multi-environment operations.
- Experience designing and governing GitOps release processes, branching strategies, multi-environment promotion, and release versioning.
- Advanced CI/CD experience using GitHub Actions or similar tools to integrate building, linting, testing, DevSecOps, and Argo CD delivery.
- Strong Terraform expertise covering module development, state management, and multi-environment patterns.
- Strong AWS expertise across networking, IAM, and the EKS ecosystem.
- Strong Linux and distributed-systems troubleshooting skills across Kubernetes, networking, and AWS.
- Experience with Helm, Kustomize, Kubernetes networking fundamentals, and Cilium.
- Ability to drive technical standards and adoption across teams without direct authority and communicate with engineering and leadership audiences.
- Experience treating developer experience as a product with measurable outcomes.
- Preferred qualifications include Kubernetes certifications, AWS DevOps Engineer Professional or Solutions Architect certification, Scrum delivery leadership or certification, gitStream or similar automation experience, automated release/versioning tools, Karpenter, Kyverno, Crossplane, and self-service platform capabilities.
Benefits
- Full-time onsite work in San Diego, California, five days per week.
- Required on-call participation, including potential 24/7 coverage.
- Competitive annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants.
- Competitive benefits package supporting employees at work, at home, and at play.
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About Qualcomm
Qualcomm is a public semiconductor company headquartered in San Diego, founded in 1985, that designs and sells wireless chipsets and platforms for mobile devices, automotive, IoT, and networking, notably the Snapdragon application processors and 5G modems. It also licenses a large portfolio of cellular patents to device makers, generating revenue alongside chip sales; its technology underpins many Android smartphones and emerging automotive and edge-compute systems, and it trades on NASDAQ as QCOM.