15 hours ago
Toronto, Canada or Dallas, TX, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$118k - $176k/yr
Responsibilities
- Maintain and operate Kubernetes infrastructure across on-premises and AWS environments.
- Gather requirements and design Kubernetes-based solutions with Principal Engineers and internal customers.
- Provision, configure, upgrade, and manage Kubernetes clusters for performance, scalability, and reliability.
- Perform operating system patching, Kubernetes lifecycle management, and software updates across the platform stack.
- Monitor platform health, improve stability and efficiency, and troubleshoot infrastructure and platform issues.
- Contribute to automation, tooling, and infrastructure-as-code initiatives.
- Participate in team on-call rotations.
Requirements
- Solid hands-on Kubernetes experience, including cluster operations, upgrades, troubleshooting, and RKE1/2 and CAPI.
- Experience with AWS or similar cloud platforms.
- Working knowledge of Golang and Python.
- Experience using GitHub for code and collaboration and GitHub Actions for CI/CD and automation.
- Experience managing infrastructure maintenance, patching, and upgrades.
- Ability to translate stakeholder requirements into technical solutions.
- Strong problem-solving skills and a proactive engineering mindset.
- Preferred: experience with hybrid infrastructure, Terraform or CloudFormation, CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes networking, security and observability tooling, Kyverno policies, and Backstage.
Benefits
- Employee Assistance Program.
- US employees may enroll in health, life, disability, and voluntary insurance plans; retirement contributions, accrued paid time off, and paid holidays are also available, subject to eligibility and plan terms.
- Canada employees may enroll in healthcare, life, disability, and optional benefits; retirement or savings plans, vacation, personal time, and paid holidays are also available, subject to eligibility and plan terms.
- The position is offered in Dallas, United States, or Toronto, Canada, with location-specific compensation ranges.
About Equinix
Equinix is a public digital infrastructure company that operates a global platform of colocation and interconnection data centers for enterprises, cloud and network providers. It sells space, power, and connectivity, plus services such as Equinix Fabric, Network Edge, and Equinix Metal for hybrid multicloud and edge deployments. Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Redwood City, California, it is listed on NASDAQ (EQIX) and runs hundreds of IBX facilities across major metros worldwide.