DevOps Engineer Kafka & PostgreSQL

Must Have

• Platform Experience: 8+ years in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering, including 3+ years operating production Kubernetes for business-critical services.
• Kubernetes Depth: Strong grasp of Kubernetes primitives — workloads and StatefulSets, operators and CRDs, persistent volumes and CSI storage, RBAC, and network policies — with hands-on experience upgrading and troubleshooting clusters in production.
• Helm & Release Engineering: Hands-on authoring of non-trivial Helm charts — templating, values design, chart dependencies, and testing with helm-unittest or chart-testing. Experience with k0rdent, Cluster API, or a multi-cluster delivery tool (Argo CD ApplicationSets, Fleet, Sveltos) is preferred, but what matters is depth with Helm, not the specific delivery tool.
• Kubernetes Storage: Practical experience with CSI drivers, StorageClasses, and volume snapshots — AWS EBS CSI preferred, but equivalent experience with Longhorn, Ceph (Rook), OpenEBS, or another cloud CSI driver is acceptable. What matters is understanding how storage behaves when pods, nodes, and clusters fail.
• PostgreSQL on Kubernetes: Hands-on experience running PostgreSQL through a Kubernetes operator — CloudNativePG (CNPG) preferred, but Zalando’s postgres-operator, Crunchy PGO, or a comparable operator is acceptable — including backups, restores, and point-in-time recovery.
• Cloud Infrastructure: Production experience in AWS (EC2, EBS, VPC, IAM, S3; EKS a plus); equivalent GCP or Azure experience also counts.
• CI/CD & Automation: Designing and maintaining GitHub Actions (or GitLab CI) pipelines, with solid scripting in Bash plus Python or Go (Golang).
• Collaboration: Clear written and spoken English and comfort working across time zones, with regular overlap with US and European teams.
• Experience with bare-metal provisioning (Metal3, Ironic, PXE) and GPU or AI infrastructure.
• Familiarity with Kong Gateway or the Kubernetes Gateway API, and Keycloak / OIDC identity integration.
• Experience operating Temporal or other workflow engines in production.
• Experience delivering software into air-gapped or sovereign environments using private registries and mirrored artifacts.
• Experience designing cross-region disaster recovery for stateful services, including RPO/RTO trade-off decisions.
• Certifications such as CKA / CKS or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional — a plus.
• Contributions to open-source infrastructure projects (Helm charts, Kubernetes operators, CNCF projects) — a huge plus.

Nice to Have

• Experience with bare-metal provisioning (Metal3, Ironic, PXE) and GPU or AI infrastructure.
• Familiarity with Kong Gateway or the Kubernetes Gateway API, and Keycloak / OIDC identity integration.
• Experience operating Temporal or other workflow engines in production.
• Experience delivering software into air-gapped or sovereign environments using private registries and mirrored artifacts.
• Experience designing cross-region disaster recovery for stateful services, including RPO/RTO trade-off decisions.
• Certifications such as CKA / CKS or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional — a plus.
• Contributions to open-source infrastructure projects (Helm charts, Kubernetes operators, CNCF projects) — a huge plus.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science & Engineering (or a related field), or 8+ years of equivalent related experience.
• We offer:
• Operate some of the most advanced AI infrastructure environments in production today.
• Work with the latest NVIDIA GPU technologies, Kubernetes platforms, and high-performance networking environments.
• Help define operational standards and reliability practices for next-generation AI infrastructure services.
• Influence the adoption of AI-powered operational capabilities through k0rdent AI.
• Work alongside highly skilled engineers solving complex infrastructure and platform challenges at scale.
• Join a growing organisation investing heavily in AI infrastructure, platform services, and operational innovation.
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