Nextiva

Staff DevOps Engineer

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2 days ago
Remote, MexicoStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Own the architecture and roadmap for a multi-cluster Kubernetes platform, including scaling, upgrades, and multi-tenancy.
  • Establish GitOps-based deployment workflows using Argo CD or Flux.
  • Design and evolve an internal developer platform with self-service access to compute, environments, and observability.
  • Architect service mesh, networking, and ingress strategies for reliable and secure service communication.
  • Define standards for GPU and ML workload scheduling and resource management on Kubernetes.
  • Partner with AI/ML teams on infrastructure requirements for training and inference workloads.
  • Drive capacity planning, resource optimization, and cost optimization across Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure.
  • Set technical direction and review architecture for platform-impacting engineering changes.
  • Own platform reliability through SLOs, incident-response leadership, and postmortems.
  • Mentor experienced engineers and represent platform engineering in cross-organizational technical decisions.
  • Influence teams toward common platform standards without direct reporting authority.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
  • 8+ years of DevOps, platform, or infrastructure engineering experience.
  • 5+ years of hands-on production Kubernetes experience, including cluster architecture, upgrades, and multi-tenant environments.
  • Strong hands-on experience operating cloud infrastructure across AWS and Google Cloud Platform.
  • Strong GitOps experience with Argo CD or Flux.
  • Strong Infrastructure-as-Code experience with Terraform or Pulumi.
  • Deep understanding of container orchestration, networking, ingress, and service mesh technologies such as Istio, Linkerd, or Cilium.
  • Experience operating Nginx, Kafka, and Redis at scale.
  • Experience with GPU scheduling, node pools, and resource quotas for ML/AI workloads in GKE and EKS.
  • Experience designing internal developer platforms or paved-road tooling for engineering organizations.
  • Strong Linux, networking, storage, and security fundamentals.
  • Experience operating observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or OpenTelemetry at platform scale.
  • Ability to communicate effectively and influence technical direction across teams.
  • Experience calculating, forecasting, and optimizing cloud and Kubernetes infrastructure costs and evaluating architecture, capacity, compute, and resource-allocation decisions.
  • Experience with capacity planning and resource optimization while balancing performance, reliability, scalability, and cost.
  • Additional helpful experience includes Kubernetes policy-as-code and security tooling, image scanning, and AWS, GCP, or Azure certifications, including CKA or CKS.
  • Experience designing infrastructure for ML/AI training or inference workloads and understanding GPU scheduling, resource allocation, node pools, quotas, reliability, and cost considerations.

Benefits

  • Remote work is available across Mexico; employees within 80 kilometers of the Guadalajara office are expected to work onsite.
  • Health insurance, including vision and dental coverage, for employees and eligible family members.
  • Life insurance equal to 24 times the monthly salary.
  • New full-time employees receive 10 personal days before their first anniversary, 12 vacation days on their first anniversary, and 5 personal days annually thereafter in addition to vacation time.
  • 30-day Christmas bonus, 50% vacation premium, company-matched food vouchers, and a 13% matched savings fund.
  • Employee Assistance Program and wellness initiatives.
  • Ongoing learning, development, and career advancement opportunities.

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