Failover, capacity and clear runbooks are critical.

The Role

• Build, manage and scale Kubernetes clusters across cloud and on-premise environments, including GKE and self-managed clusters
• Support and administer MySQL, PostgreSQL and MongoDB (application teams own product schema; you co-own operational)
• Manage monitoring, alerting and logging platforms
• Automate infrastructure with Infrastructure as Code and scripting
• Maintain high availability and resilience across critical systems
• Manage access controls and permissions in cloud platforms
• Troubleshoot, performance-tune and harden platforms
• Develop technical standards, best practices and documentation
• Provide technical support and guidance to internal engineering teams in more than one region

Experience

Note, we want to speak to people with experience in some or all of the following - you do not need every line.

• Building and managing Kubernetes in production, including GKE and/or self-managed clusters
• Designing and supporting highly available, resilient infrastructure
• Monitoring and observability — Grafana, Prometheus, ELK Stack, rsyslog or equivalent
• Infrastructure automation using Terraform, Ansible, Packer and Bash
• Strong Linux administration, particularly Ubuntu
• Exposure to medium or large-scale environments
• Ability to work independently managing competing priorities
• Collaboration with teams across locations and time zones

Beneficial

• On-prem and hybrid Kubernetes
• Hands-on MySQL or PostgreSQL administration
• MongoDB — sharded, on-prem clustering would be particularly useful but is not a must have