Kubernetes Platform Engineer

About the position

Role:
This is a technical Kubernetes support job. This is for an Individual with Linux Certification and Kubernetes experience and some Coding background. Operational support is key and Standby and after-hours support will be expected.
Manage and maintain Linux platforms to ensure stability and continued high performance of said platforms and applications deployed thereon.
Assist in implementing, managing and configuration of environment, platform, and application monitoring.
Assisting in the constant automation and configuration of the Kubernetes environments.
Participate in continual investigation into best practices, methodologies and tooling for deployment, DevOps, monitoring, release and configuration management and all other relevant disciplines. Documentation of the investigation is compulsory.
Work with Linux advance implementations as well as hardware configured environments.
Ensure that tooling and platform obsolesce is avoided and managed in the form of roadmaps, patches, and upgrades.
Facilitate the automation of area’s this person will be involved as the workload is growing and the toolsets is also getting more – key is to automate as much what make sense and use proper rules to ensure it is a clean and secure implementation.
 
What will make you successful in this role?
The following would assist a successful candidate:
Application platform, maintenance, implementation, and configuration of the following (or similar):

• Linux advance user with Certification started.
• RedHat JBoss EAP (or Wildfly)
• Kubernetes and Rancher experience
• Understand the concept of integration of web-based services and practical use of APIs, REST and SOAP services.
• Understand conceptual makeup of the SDLC and, with regards to the implementation phase, the change in responsibilities based on level of agility.

 
Exposure to Infrastructure/Application configuration management tooling including the following (or similar) is advisable:

• Ansible
• Chef
• Puppet
• Foreman
• Rundeck
• Redis (cache)
• Graylog
• Harbor

 
Understanding of relationships and integration between host, operating system, platform, and application layers. Knowledge of integration between application touch-points such as directory services (i.e., LDAP), databases, load balancers and reverse-proxies are also beneficial.
Exposure to containerization concepts and technology such as the following:

• Docker (Swarm)
• Kubernetes operations & administration
  • build, upgrade clusters.
  • add remove maintain nodes.
  • manage storage.
  • manage cluster integrations.
  • support applications.
  • security - cluster & applications
  
  

 
Qualifications:

• Grade 12/Matric
• Tertiary qualification in Information technology
• Linux Certification

 
Experience:

• 2-5 years in the field of Information Technology
• 2-5 years runtime operations support in some form.
• Must have exposure with scripting.
• 2 years as an advance Linux user
• Linux advance Certification advisable

 
Knowledge and Skills:

• Operating system software and hardware and utility software
• Software installations and upgrades
• Business requirements
• Security management and data recovery
• Change control.

 
Personal Attributes:

• Organisational savvy - Contributing through others.
• Manages complexity - Contributing through others.
• Plans and aligns - Contributing through others.

Optimises work processes - Contributing through others.
Role:
This is a technical Kubernetes support job. This is for an Individual with Linux Certification and Kubernetes experience and some Coding background. Operational support is key and Standby and after-hours support will be expected.
Manage and maintain Linux platforms to ensure stability and continued high performance of said platforms and applications deployed thereon.
Assist in implementing, managing and configuration of environment, platform, and application monitoring.
Assisting in the constant automation and configuration of the Kubernetes environments.
Participate in continual investigation into best practices, methodologies and tooling for deployment, DevOps, monitoring, release and configuration management and all other relevant disciplines. Documentation of the investigation is compulsory.
Work with Linux advance implementations as well as hardware configured environments.
Ensure that tooling and platform obsolesce is avoided and managed in the form of roadmaps, patches, and upgrades.
Facilitate the automation of area’s this person will be involved as the workload is growing and the toolsets is also getting more – key is to automate as much what make sense and use proper rules to ensure it is a clean and secure implementation.
 
What will make you successful in this role?
The following would assist a successful candidate:
Application platform, maintenance, implementation, and configuration of the following (or similar):

• Linux advance user with Certification started.
• RedHat JBoss EAP (or Wildfly)
• Kubernetes and Rancher experience
• Understand the concept of integration of web-based services and practical use of APIs, REST and SOAP services.
• Understand conceptual makeup of the SDLC and, with regards to the implementation phase, the change in responsibilities based on level of agility.

 
Exposure to Infrastructure/Application configuration management tooling including the following (or similar) is advisable:

• Ansible
• Chef
• Puppet
• Foreman
• Rundeck
• Redis (cache)
• Graylog
• Harbor

 
Understanding of relationships and integration between host, operating system, platform, and application layers. Knowledge of integration between application touch-points such as directory services (i.e., LDAP), databases, load balancers and reverse-proxies are also beneficial.
Exposure to containerization concepts and technology such as the following:

• Docker (Swarm)
• Kubernetes operations & administration
  • build, upgrade clusters.
  • add remove maintain nodes.
  • manage storage.
  • manage cluster integrations.
  • support applications.
  • security - cluster & applications
  
  

 
Qualifications:

• Grade 12/Matric
• Tertiary qualification in Information technology
• Linux Certification

 
Experience:

• 2-5 years in the field of Information Technology
• 2-5 years runtime operations support in some form.
• Must have exposure with scripting.
• 2 years as an advance Linux user
• Linux advance Certification advisable

 
Knowledge and Skills:

• Operating system software and hardware and utility software
• Software installations and upgrades
• Business requirements
• Security management and data recovery
• Change control.

 
Personal Attributes:

• Organisational savvy - Contributing through others.
• Manages complexity - Contributing through others.
• Plans and aligns - Contributing through others.

Optimises work processes - Contributing through others.

Desired Skills:

• operations support
• scripting.
• advance Linux user
• Operating system software
• hardware
• Security management
• data recovery
• Change control.