Kubernetes Platform Engineer
Oivan Group Oy29 days ago
Dubai, United Arab EmiratesSenior
Responsibilities
- Install, configure, operate, troubleshoot, and upgrade production Kubernetes clusters, primarily RKE2, across on-premise, air-gapped, and hybrid environments.
- Set up and operate highly available SUSE Rancher Manager, including upgrades, backup and restore, authentication, RBAC, and downstream cluster management.
- Deploy and operate NVIDIA GPU Operator, GPU drivers, container tooling, device plugins, GPU Feature Discovery, DCGM monitoring, MIG, and time-slicing for AI/ML workloads.
- Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration with Terraform and Ansible.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI, Jenkins, or GitHub Actions.
- Implement GitOps with Rancher Fleet, Argo CD, or Flux, and manage workloads with Helm and Kustomize.
- Deploy and operate Istio service mesh, including traffic management, gateways, mTLS, authorization policies, and troubleshooting.
- Operate SUSE Virtualization (Harvester) for VM workloads and RKE2 guest clusters.
- Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, security hardening, backup, disaster recovery, and platform documentation.
- Conduct root-cause investigations, create runbooks, transfer knowledge, train teams, and work with customer stakeholders in on-site engagements.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of hands-on IT experience, including at least 3 years administering Kubernetes in production.
- Strong Kubernetes troubleshooting skills using kubectl, events, logs, crictl, and node-level tools, including diagnosis of networking, DNS, storage, scheduling, certificates, and control-plane issues.
- Hands-on experience with SUSE Rancher Manager setup and day-two operations, preferably alongside RKE2 and SUSE Virtualization.
- Experience deploying and operating NVIDIA GPU Operator, ideally on RKE2.
- Experience with CI/CD, GitOps, Fleet, Argo CD or Flux, Helm, and Kustomize.
- Hands-on experience with Istio service mesh and Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and Ansible.
- Strong Linux administration with SLES, SLE Micro, RHEL, or Ubuntu, plus networking fundamentals including TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing, and TLS.
- Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, and centralized logging; strong Bash scripting skills; Python or Go is a plus.
- Strong experience in on-premise enterprise and air-gapped environments.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- Ability to work independently in customer-facing roles; advanced English is required and Arabic is advantageous.
- CKA, CKS, CKAD, SUSE Rancher, Istio, or NVIDIA AI Infrastructure and Operations certifications are preferred.
- Experience with NeuVector, Longhorn, Canal, Calico, Cilium, HashiCorp Vault, Sealed Secrets, External Secrets Operator, Harbor, Kubeflow, KServe, Ray, OpenShift, EKS, AKS, or GKE is desirable.
Benefits
- The role offers the opportunity to work with a diverse, geographically distributed technology team and develop enterprise Kubernetes platform expertise.
- The position is onsite in the UAE and includes customer-facing, on-site engagements.
Tech Stack
AnsibleArgo CDBashGitHub ActionsGitLab CI/CDGoGrafanaHelmIstioJenkinsKubernetesLinuxOpenShiftPrometheusPythonTerraform
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