Remote Cloud Infrastructure Engineer - Kubernetes & CI/CD

Vertalents; United States; Remote; USD 85,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus eligible

Job summary

VerTALENTS, a VerSprite Cybersecurity subsidiary, seeks a hands-on Cloud Infrastructure Engineer with strong Kubernetes and modern CI/CD practices. You will design, deploy, and operate secure, scalable cloud-native platforms supporting multiple engineering teams.

You will help manage the full lifecycle of containerized applications—from image build and deployment through observability, performance validation, and reliability improvements—while contributing to a resilient, well-governed platform

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience managing Kubernetes clusters in production environments.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform.
• Strong containerization knowledge and security best practices.
• Solid Linux administration and troubleshooting skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and manage production Kubernetes clusters, including workload scheduling, resource quotas, network policies, ingress/egress controls, and RBAC.
• Develop and maintain deployment patterns using Helm, Kustomize, and Kubernetes operators.
• Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines using Infrastructure as Code and GitOps principles.
• Provision and manage infrastructure using tools such as Terraform or similar automation platforms.
• Build secure container images and manage image versioning and promotion across environments.
• Implement observability solutions using Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, or similar technologies.
• Conduct load testing, resilience validation, performance tuning, and capacity planning.
• Perform Linux administration, troubleshooting, and system hardening.
• Support stateful workloads including PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, and Kafka.
• Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and reliability improvement initiatives.
• Document architecture, operational procedures, backup and recovery processes, and infrastructure lifecycle plans.

Skills

Kubernetes admin

CI/CD pipelines

Infra as code

Linux admin

Python scripting

Networking security

Kubernetes security

Team collaboration

Load testing

Tools

Terraform

Helm

Kustomize

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Grafana

GitOps

PostgreSQL

Job description

VerTALENTS, a VerSprite Cybersecurity subsidiary, seeks a hands-on Cloud Infrastructure Engineer with strong Kubernetes and modern CI/CD practices. You will design, deploy, and operate secure, scalable cloud-native platforms supporting multiple engineering teams.

You will help manage the full lifecycle of containerized applications—from image build and deployment through observability, performance validation, and reliability improvements—while contributing to a resilient, well-governed platform