Senior Kubernetes Engineer
Schuberg Philis4 months ago
Best, NetherlandsSenior
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with internal and customer engineering teams to deliver Kubernetes initiatives.
- Manage, maintain, troubleshoot, upgrade, and scale Kubernetes clusters on Amazon EKS across DTAP environments.
- Monitor and improve cluster health, performance, reliability, and availability while proactively resolving issues.
- Implement change management for upgrades, scaling, and configuration changes.
- Develop and maintain monitoring, alerting, and logging solutions for Kubernetes infrastructure.
- Automate recurring administration and operational processes using scripting or Infrastructure as Code.
- Maintain documentation covering cluster configurations, architectures, processes, and change history.
- Apply security best practices and ensure clusters meet internal standards and external regulations.
- Support incident response and continuous improvement of infrastructure and processes.
Requirements
- At least 2 years of hands-on experience managing the full lifecycle of Kubernetes clusters, including provisioning, upgrades, vertical and horizontal autoscaling, high availability, container networking, security controls, and disaster recovery.
- Production experience managing Kubernetes on public cloud platforms, preferably AWS.
- Experience with AWS production environments, including IAM and RBAC, VPC and subnet architectures, multi-account AWS environments, and observability solutions.
- Strong knowledge of Infrastructure as Code, Git, GitOps practices, and self-hosted CI/CD pipelines.
- Nice-to-have experience with Karpenter, Cilium, Kyverno, or External Secrets Operator.
- Nice-to-have experience developing custom Kubernetes Operators.
- Practical experience with observability tools such as Datadog or Grafana.
- Programming and scripting skills in Bash, Go, or Python.
About Schuberg Philis
Schuberg Philis is a Netherlands-based IT services provider that designs, builds, and operates mission-critical systems for enterprises in regulated sectors, using cloud and on-prem infrastructure. It delivers managed services and project-based engineering across cloud, security, data/AI, and software, with autonomous teams taking end-to-end responsibility. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Schiphol-Rijk, it is privately held under Bridgepoint ownership.