Qualcomm Senior Kubernetes Platform Engineer - Cork 

Ireland, Cork 

4150662

QT Technologies Ireland Limited

Job Area:

Information Technology Group, Information Technology Group > IT Engineering

Baseline requirements:

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

• 2+ years administering Linux systems, intermediate proficiency.

• 1+ years Kubernetes administration experience.

• Advanced proficiency in Kustomize or Helm (preferably both).

• Intermediate knowledge of Kubernetes networking internals (notably Flannel+Calico).

• Direct experience deploying and maintaining enterprise Kubernetes clusters.

• Advanced proficiency with Docker and Linux container internals.

• Advanced proficiency with git and Github.

• Comprehensive knowledge of Kubernetes control plane architecture and troubleshooting.

• Intermediate proficiency with Python.

• 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 and RKE.

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

• Datadog log and metrics collection; dashboarding.

• Writing Operators in Python using KOPF.

• Open Policy Agent (OPA) and Gatekeeper OPA.

• Kubernetes Ingress/Gateway API implementations.

• Deployment and management of Portworx.

• Creating CI/CD workflows using Github Actions.

• Deployment and management of MetalLB.

Where you will be working

A gateway to Europe, Cork airport provides access to almost 50 international destinations including transatlantic air routes.

What's on Offer

Apart from working in an open, relaxed and collaborative space, you will enjoy:

• Salary, stock and performance related bonus

• Maternity/Paternity Leave

• Employee stock purchase scheme

• Matching pension scheme

• Education Assistance

• Relocation and immigration support (if needed)

• Life, Medical, Income and Travel Insurance

• Subsidised memberships for physical and mental well-being

• Bicycle purchase scheme

• Employee run clubs, including, running, football, chess, badminton + many more

Minimum Qualifications:

• 3+ years of IT-related work experience with a Bachelor's degree.

5+ years of IT-related work experience without a Bachelor’s degree.

Physical Requirements:

• Frequently transports and installs equipment up to 20 lbs.

*References to a particular number of years experience are for indicative purposes only. Applications from candidates with equivalent experience will be considered, provided that the candidate can demonstrate an ability to fulfill the principal duties of the role and possesses the required competencies.

Qualcomm expects its employees to abide by all applicable policies and procedures, including but not limited to security and other requirements regarding protection of Company confidential information and other confidential and/or proprietary information, to the extent those requirements are permissible under applicable law.