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Responsibilities
- Debug production issues across Kubernetes clusters, Linux systems, AWS infrastructure, networking, and application workloads.
- Lead incidents from detection through recovery and coordinate across teams during failures.
- Participate in an on-call rotation and follow incidents through to durable fixes.
- Build, operate, and improve the Kubernetes platform and AWS infrastructure.
- Manage production infrastructure with Terraform, including reusable modules, automated validation, and safe change workflows.
- Automate operational tasks and improve deployment tooling, CI/CD, and developer workflows.
- Design and improve logging, metrics, tracing, dashboards, and alerting across Kubernetes workloads and AWS infrastructure.
- Define service-level indicators and objectives and close telemetry gaps.
- Develop runbooks, incident-response procedures, post-incident reviews, and operational readiness standards.
Requirements
- Strong Linux systems knowledge and experience diagnosing production systems.
- Hands-on production Kubernetes experience, including networking, storage, resource management, upgrades, and troubleshooting.
- Strong experience using Terraform to manage production cloud infrastructure.
- Experience with AWS, including IAM, networking, compute, storage, and EKS.
- Solid networking fundamentals covering DNS, load balancing, firewalls, VPNs, subnets, and routing.
- Experience building operational tooling and automation with Python, Go, Bash, or a similar language.
- Strong ownership during incidents and ability to turn ambiguous failures into lasting improvements.
- Experience supporting connected devices, edge computing, or on-premises infrastructure is preferred.
- Experience with CI/CD, GitOps, or Kubernetes multi-cluster environments is preferred.
- Familiarity with cloud and Kubernetes security practices is preferred.
- Experience reading firmware logs or low-level Rust or C code is preferred.
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