Qualcomm IT seeks a Kubernetes generalist who can assist with the construction, deployment, management, automation, and troubleshooting of high performance bare-metal on-prem and cloud-based multi-tenant Kubernetes clusters using Rancher . Kubernetes distributions in use are RKE2 (on-prem) and GKE, EKS, AKS (cloud) . Day to day tasks also include monitoring performance and availability of all Kubernetes clusters (including high performance GPU acceleration), as well as developing and deploying platform automation scripts and software . Candidates will join a mature and experienced team of Kubernetes platform administrators with a wide range of skill levels . Candidates will have many opportunities for growth through project work and coaching from mentors . Examples of possible project work include implementation of self-healing system automation; testing, validation, and deployment of new Kubernetes versions; transformation of existing platform automation to make use of new Kubernetes functionality; testing and integration of new high performance bare-metal compute platforms; implementation and troubleshooting of novel Kubernetes multi-tenancy patterns such as vcluster ; migration of Gatekeeper OPA policies to Validating Admission Policy.

Baseline requirements:

• Comfortable using and developing on Linux as a primary OS, especially Ubuntu.

• 2+ years Kubernetes administration experience.

Advanced proficiency in Kustomize or Helm (preferably both).

Intermediate knowledge of Kubernetes networking internals (notably Cilium).

Direct experience deploying and maintaining enterprise Kubernetes clusters.

• Advanced proficiency with Docker+ContainerD and Linux container internals.

• Advanced proficiency with git and Github .

• Knowledge of Kubernetes control plane architecture and troubleshooting.

• Intermediate proficiency with Python or Go.

• Intermediate proficiency with bash scripting.

• Comfortable with Agile project management in JIRA.

Beneficial additional experience:

• Recent CKAD and CKA certifications . CKS certification is a plus.

• Bare-metal Kubernetes management with Rancher, RKE2, and Cilium.

• Cloud Kubernetes management (GKE, EKS and AKS).

• Datadog log and metrics collection; dashboarding.

• Open Policy Agent (OPA) and Gatekeeper OPA.

• Kubernetes Ingress/Gateway API implementations.

• Deployment and management of Portworx and MetalLB .

• Creating CI/CD workflows using Github Actions.

• Experience with GPU-accelerated workloads in Kubernetes.