Senior Kubernetes Platform Architect: Global, Automated

NVIDIA Gruppe; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 208,000 - 333,500; Full time

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Job summary

NVIDIA CFR is seeking a hands‑on senior Kubernetes platform engineer to own lifecycle, automation, and production support for the GNI Kubernetes fleet across US and Bangalore teams. You will design, build, and operate a scalable, observable platform with GitOps-driven delivery and strong on‑call discipline.

Join a critical backbone team in NVIDIA’s Global Network Infrastructure to drive reliability, scale, and efficiency across data centers and cloud environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of experience building or operating production Kubernetes platforms, network infrastructure, or distributed systems.
• Deep experience with Kubernetes at scale, including cluster lifecycle, upgrades, networking, storage, and recovery.
• Proficiency in Go or Python.
• Experience with GitOps, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and automated production delivery.
• Experience deploying and supporting network automation or telemetry services on Kubernetes.
• Experience with production on‑call, incident response, root‑cause analysis, and driving corrective actions to completion.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate the Kubernetes platform powering GNI network automation, telemetry, and operations across data centers, colocation facilities, and cloud environments.
• Own the lifecycle management for GNI Kubernetes environments, including cluster onboarding, upgrades, capacity, availability, and recovery.
• Develop production‑quality software and automation for cluster provisioning, validation, upgrades, remediation, and multi‑cluster delivery through GitOps.
• Provide production support for network services hosted on the platform, collaborating with Network Automation and service teams.
• Diagnose complex Kubernetes platform and hosted‑service failures involving control‑plane health, cluster networking, storage, scheduling, and multi‑cluster dependencies; drive resolution.
• Define production‑readiness and observability standards for the platform and hosted network services; establish health signals, capacity, alerts, runbooks, and recovery.
• Participate in CFR’s production on‑call rotation, lead incident response and recovery, then drive corrective actions to completion.

Skills

Kubernetes at scale

Go or Python programming

GitOps practices

CI/CD

Incident response

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

ClusterAPI (CAPI)

Metal3

Job description

NVIDIA CFR is seeking a hands‑on senior Kubernetes platform engineer to own lifecycle, automation, and production support for the GNI Kubernetes fleet across US and Bangalore teams. You will design, build, and operate a scalable, observable platform with GitOps-driven delivery and strong on‑call discipline.

Join a critical backbone team in NVIDIA’s Global Network Infrastructure to drive reliability, scale, and efficiency across data centers and cloud environments.