Specilalist- Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE + GCP)

Overview:

TekWissen is a global workforce management provider throughout India and many other countries in the world. The below client is a global company with shared ideals and a deep sense of family. From our earliest days as a pioneer of modern transportation, we have sought to make the world a better place one that benefits lives, communities and the planet

Job Title: DevOps Specialist

Location: Chennai

Work Type: Hybrid

Position Description:

• GKE Platform Management at Scale: Manage and optimize large-scale GKE environments in a multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud context, ensuring the platform is highly available, scalable, and secure.
• CI/CD Pipeline Development: Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using tools like GitHub Actions to automate deployment workflows across the GKE platform.
• Ensure smooth integration and delivery of services throughout their lifecycle.
• Enterprise GKE Management: Leverage advanced features of GKE such as ACM (Anthos Config Management) and KCC (Kubernetes Cluster Config) to manage GKE clusters efficiently at the enterprise scale.
• Workload Identity & Security: Implement workload identity and security best practices to ensure secure access and management of GKE workloads.
• Custom Operators & Controllers: Develop custom operators and controllers for GKE, automating the deployment and management of custom services to enhance the developer experience on the platform.
• Developer Experience Focus: Maintain a developer-first mindset to create an intuitive, reliable, and easy-to-use platform for developers. Collaborate with development teams to ensure seamless integration with the GKE platform.
• GKE Deployment Pipelines: Provide guidelines and best practices for GKE deployment pipelines, leveraging tools like Kustomize and Helm to manage and deploy GKE configurations effectively.
• Ensure pipelines are optimized for scalability, security, and repeatability.
• Zero Trust Model: Ensure GKE clusters operate effectively within a Zero Trust security model.
• Maintain a strong understanding of the principles of Zero Trust security, including identity and access management, network segmentation, and workload authentication.
• Ingress Patterns: Design and manage multi-cluster and multi-regional ingress patterns to ensure seamless traffic management and high availability across geographically distributed Kubernetes clusters.
• Deep Troubleshooting & Support: Provide deep troubleshooting knowledge and support to help developers pinpoint issues across the GKE platform, focusing on debugging complex Kubernetes issues, application failures, and performance bottlenecks.
• Utilize diagnostic tools and debugging techniques to resolve critical platform-related issues.

Skills Required:

• GitHub, DevOps, TERRAFORM, Kubernetes, Google Cloud Platform

Skills Preferred:

• Python

Experience Required:

• 5+ years of hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), including designing, deploying, and managing cloud infrastructure and services.
• 5+ years of experience specifically with Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), managing large-scale, production-grade clusters in enterprise environments.

Education Required:

• Bachelor's Degree

TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.