GKE Platform Engineer - Cloud-Native CI/CD Expert

Ethereum Technologies; Phoenix (AZ); On-site; USD 110,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Ethereum Technologies in Phoenix seeks an experienced DevOps/Platform Engineer to design, deploy, and manage scalable Kubernetes/GKE environments. You will implement CI/CD pipelines, IaC with Terraform, and enforce security and observability across clusters.

Ideal candidates have 4+ years in DevOps with GCP/GKE, strong Kubernetes knowledge, and scripting skills in Python, Bash, or Go. The role emphasizes collaboration with development, SRE, and security teams to drive modernization.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of DevOps, cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or Kubernetes administration.
• Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).
• Strong understanding of Kubernetes architecture: Pods, Deployments, Services, Ingress, ConfigMaps, Secrets, StatefulSets, storage.
• Experience with Docker or OCI containers.
• Proficiency with Terraform or similar IaC tools.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines with Cloud Build, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI.
• Knowledge of Linux administration, networking, DNS, TLS, load balancing, and troubleshooting.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, alerting; Git-based workflows; scripting in Python, Bash, or Go.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and manage Kubernetes/GKE clusters and container workloads.
• Configure GKE clusters, node pools, autoscaling, networking, load balancing, and upgrades.
• Deploy apps using Kubernetes manifests, Helm, and Kustomize.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines for automated builds, tests, deployments, and releases.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning with Terraform and IaC practices.
• Enforce Kubernetes security best practices: RBAC, Workload Identity, secrets, network policies, image security.
• Configure monitoring, logging, alerting, observability with Google Cloud Operations, Prometheus, Grafana.
• Troubleshoot cluster, networking, deployment, performance, and production availability issues.
• Optimize resource utilization, scalability, reliability, and cloud costs.
• Collaborate with development, SRE, security, and platform teams for cloud-native modernization.

Skills

DevOps experience

Cloud infrastructure

Kubernetes administration

GKE expertise

CI/CD pipelines

Terraform / IaC

Linux administration

Monitoring / observability

Scripting (Python / Bash / Go)

Tools

Terraform

GKE

Cloud Build / CI tools

Jenkins / GitHub Actions / GitLab CI

Job description

Ethereum Technologies in Phoenix seeks an experienced DevOps/Platform Engineer to design, deploy, and manage scalable Kubernetes/GKE environments. You will implement CI/CD pipelines, IaC with Terraform, and enforce security and observability across clusters.

Ideal candidates have 4+ years in DevOps with GCP/GKE, strong Kubernetes knowledge, and scripting skills in Python, Bash, or Go. The role emphasizes collaboration with development, SRE, and security teams to drive modernization.