DevOps Engineer / Analyst Programmer - Kubernetes (K8s)

Recruit Squad Limited; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 420,000 - 720,000; Full time

Job summary

Recruit Squad Limited is seeking a capable IT professional to own and operate enterprise-scale systems, including Kubernetes-based environments. You will deploy, configure, monitor and troubleshoot deployments while driving automation and efficiency.

The role emphasizes incident resolution, root-cause analysis, and collaboration with vendors and internal teams to deliver reliable production releases, with strong emphasis on SRE practices and documentation.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science or related discipline.
• At least 3 years IT experience, with 2 years in system development or enterprise-scale support.
• Hands-on Kubernetes operations experience including deployment, configuration, troubleshooting and incident resolution.

Responsibilities

• Own the day-to-day operation, maintenance and support of designated enterprise-scale systems, including standalone and Kubernetes-based environments.
• Administer and support Kubernetes environments, including application deployment, configuration, monitoring, troubleshooting and operational maintenance.
• Review vendors’ deliverables to ensure compliance with contractual requirements and internal security standards.
• Coordinate with business users, vendors, platform and infrastructure teams to resolve incidents and support production releases.
• Implement and enhance Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices for availability, reliability and performance.
• Investigate production incidents, perform root-cause analysis, and drive corrective and preventive actions.
• Identify repetitive manual operational tasks and improve efficiency through scripting and automation.
• Maintain system operational documentation, including runbooks and knowledge-base materials.

Skills

Kubernetes operations

Docker

Bash

Python

Automation mindset

Incident management

English Cantonese Mandarin

RESTful APIs

Microservices

Agile Scrum

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / IT or related discipline

Tools

Ansible

Jira

Confluence

Prometheus

Job description

• • Own the day-to-day operation, maintenance and support of designated enterprisescale systems, including standalone and Kubernetes-based environments.
• • Administer and support Kubernetes environments, including application deployment, configuration, monitoring, troubleshooting and operational maintenance.
• • Review vendors’ deliverables, including technical documents, source code, test evidence and deployment materials, to ensure compliance with contractual requirements, internal security standards and guidelines.
• • Coordinate with business users, vendors, platform and infrastructure teams to resolve incidents, deliver system changes and support production releases.
• • Implement and enhance Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices, including monitoring, alerting, logging and incident management, to ensure system availability, reliability and performance.
• • Investigate production incidents, perform root-cause analysis, and drive corrective and preventive actions.
• • Identify repetitive manual operational tasks and improve efficiency, consistency and reliability through scripting, standardisation and workflow automation.
• • Maintain system operational documentation, including runbooks, support procedures, incident reports and knowledge-base materials.

• • Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or a related discipline.
• • At least 3 years of IT experience, including 2 years of relevant experience in system development, application implementation and/or enterprise-scale system support.
• • Demonstrates hands-on experience in Kubernetes (K8s) operations, including application deployment, configuration management, troubleshooting, monitoring, and incident resolution. Administrative experience with Kubernetes is advantageous.
• • Familiarity with container technologies, such as Docker, and Kubernetes deployment/configuration artifacts.
• • Good scripting skills in Bash and Python.
• • Familiar with Agile/Scrum methodologies and collaboration tools such as Jira and Confluence.
• • Solid understanding of modern application concepts, including but not limited to RESTful APIs, Single Sign-On (SSO) and microservices architecture.
• • Strong automation mindset, with the ability to identify and transform manual operational processes into standardised, automated workflows.
• • Hands-on experience with Ansible Playbooks for operational, deployment or configuration automation is highly preferred.
• • Experience with monitoring, alerting and observability tools is preferred.
• • Strong analytical, problem-solving and incident-management skills.
• • Excellent communication skills, with proficiency in written and spoken English, Cantonese and/or Mandarin