Senior DevOps Engineer

Relanto; Fremont (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Relanto is seeking an experienced Kubernetes Engineer to manage, administer, and optimize production Kubernetes clusters in cloud environments. The role involves lifecycle management and implementing security best practices while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of experience with Kubernetes, strong skills in CI/CD processes, and a proficiency in AWS services. This position offers an opportunity to work in a dynamic environment focusing on cloud infrastructure.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on experience managing Kubernetes clusters in production.
• Strong expertise with Kubernetes administration, including EKS, GKE, or Anthos.
• Experience with Kubernetes networking and security hardening.

Responsibilities

• Manage and optimize production Kubernetes clusters across EKS and GKE.
• Perform cluster lifecycle management including upgrades and performance optimization.
• Design and implement Kubernetes security best practices.

Skills

Kubernetes management

CI/CD pipelines

Terraform

AWS services

Monitoring and observability

Tools

ArgoCD

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Bitbucket

Prometheus

Grafana

Splunk

Job description

• Manage, administer, and optimize production Kubernetes clusters across Amazon EKS and Google Anthos/GKE environments.
• Perform cluster lifecycle management including upgrades, patching, capacity planning, autoscaling, and performance optimization.
• Design and implement Kubernetes security best practices, including RBAC, network policies, pod security standards, and cluster hardening.
• Configure and maintain ingress controllers such as NGINX Ingress and AWS ALB Ingress Controller for secure and scalable application delivery.
• Build and maintain observability platforms using Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, and cloud-native monitoring services for metrics, alerting, and log analytics.
• Develop and manage GitOps-driven CI/CD pipelines using ArgoCD, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and Bitbucket to support automated deployments and release management.
• Provision and manage cloud infrastructure using Terraform, creating reusable modules and enforcing Infrastructure as Code best practices.
• Collaborate with development, security, and platform engineering teams to streamline application deployments and operational processes.
• Manage and optimize AWS infrastructure components including networking, compute, storage, security, and monitoring services.
• Troubleshoot production incidents, perform root cause analysis, and implement preventive measures to improve platform reliability and availability.
• Define and enforce DevOps standards, operational procedures, and cloud governance best practices across distributed engineering teams.

Required Skills:

• 5+ years of hands-on experience managing Kubernetes clusters in production environments.
• Strong expertise with Kubernetes administration, including EKS, GKE, or Anthos platforms.
• Experience with Kubernetes networking, ingress controllers, service meshes, RBAC, autoscaling, and security hardening.
• Hands-on experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines using tools such as ArgoCD, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and Bitbucket.
• Strong proficiency in Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) methodologies.
• Deep understanding of AWS services including VPC, IAM, EC2, S3, Route 53, ELB/ALB, ECR, CloudWatch, KMS, and Secrets Manager.
• Experience implementing monitoring, logging, and observability solutions using Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, and cloud-native monitoring tools.
• Strong understanding of containerization technologies including Docker and Kubernetes ecosystem components.
• Experience with Linux system administration, shell scripting, and automation.
• Strong troubleshooting, performance tuning, and incident management skills.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively across engineering and business teams.
• Experience working in Agile environments and supporting distributed delivery teams.