3 days ago
Base Salary
$186k - $317k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and automate the infrastructure powering applications.
- Deploy, manage, install, upgrade, and troubleshoot Kubernetes clusters at scale, including beyond managed cloud services.
- Automate environment builds and improve platform monitoring and reliability.
- Make it easier for application teams to deploy and operate their services.
- Own platform or major subsystem architecture and guide the work of other engineers.
- Participate in technical design and code reviews and explain technical trade-offs to engineers, managers, and customers.
Requirements
- At least 4 years of production Kubernetes experience at scale, including cluster installation, upgrades, and troubleshooting beyond managed cloud services.
- Master’s degree with 6 years of related work experience or bachelor’s degree with 8 years of related work experience.
- Demonstrated technical leadership owning platform or major subsystem architecture and guiding other engineers.
- Deep Linux administration skills and knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing, VLANs, and storage concepts.
- Hands-on infrastructure-as-code and configuration-management experience with tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or Helm.
- Proficiency in Go or Python preferred, plus shell scripting experience.
- Experience with containers, container image builds, registries, and CI/CD systems.
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry.
- Preferred qualifications include CKA or CKS certification, on-premises or edge Kubernetes distributions, air-gapped installations, virtualization, server and network hardware, GitOps, service mesh, policy engines, HPC or data-intensive workloads, Kubernetes-hosted databases, regulated industrial software delivery, and Azure, AWS, GCP, or hybrid architectures.
Benefits
- Base pay is $186,200.00-$316,500.00 annually for the primary Milpitas, California location.
- Benefits may include medical, dental, vision, life, voluntary benefits, 401(k) with company matching, employee stock purchase program, student debt assistance, tuition reimbursement, career development, financial planning, wellness and employee assistance programs, paid time off, paid holidays, and family care and bonding leave.
- The primary location is USA-CA-Milpitas-KLA; actual pay depends on location, skills, experience, education, and training.
Tech Stack
AnsibleAWSAzureGoGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaHelmIstioKubernetesLinuxOpenShiftPrometheusPythonRancherTerraform
Categories
About KLA
KLA builds process control, inspection and metrology systems used to manufacture semiconductor wafers, reticles, advanced packaging, printed circuit boards, and displays, and sells related software and services to chipmakers and electronics manufacturers. Its business model centers on capital equipment sales plus service and support contracts. Headquartered in Milpitas, California, KLA traces its origins to the 1997 KLA-Tencor merger and is publicly traded on NASDAQ under the ticker KLAC.