Senior Kubernetes Platform Engineer - Production Reliability

NVIDIA; Illinois; On-site; USD 208,000 - 333,500; Full time

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Job summary

NVIDIA is seeking a senior engineer to own the lifecycle and automation of the Kubernetes platform supporting GNI network systems. You will provide production support, partnering with engineering owners when changes cross platform boundaries.

This is a senior individual contributor role with end-to-end ownership and production responsibility. You’ll design, build, and operate the Kubernetes platform, drive cluster onboarding and upgrades, and develop automation for provisioning, validation, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in CS/Engineering.
• 8+ years building/operating production Kubernetes platforms or distributed systems.
• Deep Kubernetes experience at scale (cluster lifecycle, upgrades, networking, storage, recovery).
• Proficiency in Go or Python.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate the Kubernetes platform powering GNI network automation, telemetry, and operations across data center, colocation, and cloud environments.
• Own lifecycle management for GNI Kubernetes environments, including onboarding, upgrades, capacity, availability, and recovery.
• Develop production-quality software and automation for cluster provisioning, validation, upgrades, remediation, and multi-cluster delivery via GitOps.
• Provide production support for network services on the platform, collaborating with Network Automation and service teams.
• Diagnose complex Kubernetes platform failures across control plane, networking, storage, scheduling, and multi-cluster dependencies; drive resolution.

Skills

Kubernetes

Go

Python

GitOps

CI/CD

Production support

Cloud/networking

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or equivalent

Tools

Cluster API (CAPI)

Metal3

Kubernetes controllers

Job description

NVIDIA is seeking a senior engineer to own the lifecycle and automation of the Kubernetes platform supporting GNI network systems. You will provide production support, partnering with engineering owners when changes cross platform boundaries.

This is a senior individual contributor role with end-to-end ownership and production responsibility. You’ll design, build, and operate the Kubernetes platform, drive cluster onboarding and upgrades, and develop automation for provisioning, validation, and