GKE & Kubernetes Expert — Hybrid Cloud Engineer

Experis Technology Group; Phoenix (AZ); Hybrid; USD 96,000 - 103,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and Prescription Drug Plans

Dental Plan

Vision Plan

Health Savings Account

401(k) with match

Weekly Pay

Job summary

Experis Technology Group, on behalf of a financial services client, seeks an experienced GKE Engineer to lead architecture, deployment, optimization, and operation of containerized apps in Google Cloud Platform from Phoenix, AZ in a hybrid setup.

You will manage production GKE clusters, build Helm charts, and drive GitOps and CI/CD initiatives using ArgoCD, Jenkins, and GitHub Actions while ensuring security and scalability.

Qualifications

• Expert-level Kubernetes administration and architecture.
• Hands-on experience with Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).
• Strong background in Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Experience with containerization using Docker.
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred).
• CI/CD pipeline implementation (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, ArgoCD, Cloud Build).
• Kubernetes networking, ingress controllers, and service meshes.
• Monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Splunk).
• Cloud security and Kubernetes security best practices.
• Experience supporting production environments at scale.

Responsibilities

• Manage and support production GKE clusters across development, test, and production environments.
• Monitor cluster health, capacity, and performance metrics.
• Troubleshoot Kubernetes infrastructure, networking, storage, and application deployment issues.
• Perform cluster upgrades, node pool management, and version lifecycle maintenance.
• Design and implement Kubernetes deployment standards, templates, and best practices.
• Build and maintain Helm charts and Kubernetes manifests.
• Optimize workload performance, scalability, and resource utilization.
• Support microservices migration from legacy environments into Kubernetes.
• Create and enhance CI/CD pipelines for containerized application deployment.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning using Terraform and GCP-native tooling.
• Improve release processes, deployment strategies, and rollback procedures.
• Implement GitOps methodologies using tools such as ArgoCD or Flux.
• Implement RBAC, workload identity, secrets management, and pod security controls.
• Conduct security reviews and vulnerability remediation activities.
• Ensure compliance with organizational and cloud security standards.
• Partner with security teams to establish Kubernetes governance policies.

Skills

Kubernetes administration

GKE

GCP

Docker

Terraform

CI/CD tooling

Helm

Monitoring/Observability

Security best practices

Production support

Tools

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

ArgoCD

Cloud Build

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

Splunk

Job description

Experis Technology Group, on behalf of a financial services client, seeks an experienced GKE Engineer to lead architecture, deployment, optimization, and operation of containerized apps in Google Cloud Platform from Phoenix, AZ in a hybrid setup.

You will manage production GKE clusters, build Helm charts, and drive GitOps and CI/CD initiatives using ArgoCD, Jenkins, and GitHub Actions while ensuring security and scalability.