Kubernetes engineer

BetterEngineer; Ciudad de México; Hybrid; MXN 1,663,000 - 2,494,000; Full time

Job summary

BetterEngineer is placing senior engineers to work with a US product team. You manage cluster changes, manifests, probes, and the CI job that applies them, reviewing each change before it goes live.

You’ll use Helm, Kustomize, or plain YAML, and you may draft with AI tools then verify manually. You keep a rollback and read the logs the team uses. Work US business hours from Mexico or LATAM; this is a full-time, monthly USD contract.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in engineering or operations.
• Advanced English required.
• Experience with Helm or Kustomize or YAML.
• Ability to review changes before deployment.

Responsibilities

• Change manifests, probes, and the CI job that applies them.
• Review changes before they are applied to the cluster.
• Use Helm, Kustomize, or plain YAML.
• Draft manifests or probes with AI tools and review them.
• Maintain a rollback process and read deployment logs.

Skills

Helm

Kustomize

CI/CD

YAML

English fluency

Job description

Clusters, deploys, and the path to roll back, for a US product team.

You work on the cluster a US team deploys to. A change is a manifest, a probe, or the CI job that applies it. You review it before it is applied, and you know how to roll it back.

What you do on the team

On a placement, this is the work the US team expects.

• Change manifests, probes, and the CI job that applies them
• Review a change before it is applied to the cluster
• Use Helm, Kustomize, or plain YAML, matching the repo
• Use AI tools to draft a manifest or a probe, then review it before it is applied
• Keep a rollback
• Read the logs the team already uses when a deploy fails

The stack

• Helm, Kustomize, or plain YAML
• The CI job that deploys
• Ingress, services, and probes
• Logs the team already uses
• A rollback

What we look for

• Helm, Kustomize, or plain manifests the team can read
• CI that deploys to the cluster
• 5 or more years in engineering or operations

How we check

We review work you have shipped. A keyword on a resume is not enough. You need advanced or fluent English. You will be in standups, code reviews, and Slack with a US team. You use AI tools to draft a manifest or a probe, then you review it before it is applied. Every engineer is assessed on the four-level AI fluency scale before a client meets them. See the four levels .

How a placement runs

You join the client team and work in their repo, their standups, and their code reviews. You work US business hours from Mexico, Costa Rica, Colombia, Peru, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, or Uruguay. The placement is almost always a full-time contract. You are paid the same amount every month in US dollars. The monthly invoice is for bookkeeping.

BetterEngineer introduces senior engineers in Mexico, Costa Rica, Colombia, Peru, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay to US product teams. You work in the client repo.