Senior Kubernetes Platform Engineer - GitOps & Cloud

NVIDIA

Santa Clara (CA)

On-site

USD 184,000 - 356,500

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

NVIDIA is hiring for a senior cloud infrastructure engineer to own a Kubernetes-native deployment platform and automation stack. You will build backend services and APIs powering multi-cloud, on-prem and bare-metal deployments, with zero-downtime rollouts and drift detection.

You will drive GitOps pipelines (Flux/Argo CD) across environments and develop CRDs and operators in Go for scale and security. The role demands deep Kubernetes expertise, experience with Terraform/Ansible/Vault, and strong

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or equivalent experience.
10+ years of Cloud Infrastructure and DevOps experience with Kubernetes and GitOps.
Expert Kubernetes: CRDs, operators, multi-cluster, security hardening.
Proficient with Flux CD or Argo CD, GitLab CI, Jenkins; Go or Python for control plane.
Experience with Vault, Terraform, Ansible, and Helm in on-prem and cloud.

Responsibilities

Build and develop backend microservices and REST/gRPC/MCP APIs powering the platform.
Extend the platform with dynamic delivery, rollback, drift detection, and zone bootstrapping.
Create prod-like staging environments to catch regressions early.
Develop and sustain GitOps pipelines across on-prem, Nvidia GFN Cloud, AWS, Azure, GCP.
Develop Kubernetes CRDs and operators in Go for scheduling and auto-scaling.
Integrate CI/CD, observability, and automation into a unified platform.
Automate hardware and cloud configurations with Terraform, Ansible, and Vault.
Deploy monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK; define SLOs and alerts.
Integrate runbooks, StackStorm bots, anomaly remediation, and Slack release bots.