Systems Engineer (Kubernetes & Deployment)

Requirements:

• At least 4 years of experience in Systems Engineering, DevOps, or Platform Engineering, including 2 or more years in a heavily containerized environment.
• Hands-on experience managing production Kubernetes environments, including cluster scaling, RBAC, CNI network plugins, and CSI storage.
• Demonstrated experience designing complex deployments with Helm and GitOps controllers such as ArgoCD or Flux.
• Strong experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and its managed Kubernetes offerings.
• Proficiency in at least one programming or scripting language, such as Python, Go, or Bash, for automation and tooling.
• Strong understanding of Linux system administration, TCP/IP networking, DNS, and load balancing.
• Preferred: Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD), or Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS) certification.
• Preferred: Practical experience implementing and managing service meshes for mTLS and advanced traffic shaping.
• Preferred: Experience with container vulnerability scanning and policy enforcement tools such as OPA Gatekeeper or Kyverno.
• A bachelors degree in Computer Science, IT, or an engineering discipline.

Responsibilities:

• Architect and implement scalable, secure, highly available deployment topologies for microservices and monolithic applications.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using blue-green, canary, and rolling deployment strategies.
• Establish GitOps practices with tools such as ArgoCD or Flux to automate and version-control infrastructure and deployment states.
• Advise development teams on Dockerfile best practices, multi-stage builds, and container image security and optimization.
• Provision, upgrade, and manage production Kubernetes clusters, including EKS, GKE, AKS, or bare-metal environments.
• Develop and maintain Helm charts, Kustomize manifests, and custom resource definitions for complex application needs.
• Design ingress, service mesh, and network policy configurations to support secure, efficient traffic routing.
• Design and manage persistent volumes and stateful sets for applications that need durable storage.
• Automate cloud resource provisioning using infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, Pulumi, or Ansible.
• Implement monitoring, logging, and tracing solutions to track deployment health and application performance.
• Escalate and troubleshoot complex deployment failures or cluster degradation, participate in on-call rotations, and contribute to blameless post-mortems.

Technologies:

• AWS
• Ansible
• Architect
• ArgoCD
• Azure
• Bash
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• DevOps
• GCP
• GitOps
• Helm
• Support
• Kubernetes
• Kustomize
• Linux
• Load Balancing
• Network
• Pulumi
• Python
• RBAC
• Security
• TCP/IP
• Terraform
• microservices
• Datadog
• ELK
• Grafana
• Istio
• OpenTelemetry
• Prometheus

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We are hiring two Systems Engineers specializing in Kubernetes and application deployment for our Irvine, California location. This is a 100% onsite role starting on day one. You will work closely with our software engineering, DevOps, and security teams to support our containerized infrastructure and core products. We are looking for someone who actively shapes deployment architecture, promotes GitOps practices, and addresses complex distributed-systems challenges.

last updated 44 week of 2026