DevOps Engineer

Georgia-Pacific is seeking a highly experienced Kubernetes Engineer to play a vital role in ensuring the performance, reliability, and scalability of containerized applications running in a Kubernetes cluster environment. This role will work closely with DevOps teams, developers, and infrastructure systems administrators to design, implement, maintain a Kubernetes infrastructure environment. LOCATION: ATLANTA, GA OR GREENBAY, WI NO H1B What You Will Do

• Deploy and manage Kubernetes clusters in a cloud or edge environment.
• Utilize management tools such as Rancher.
• Leverage technologies such as Dynatrace and Splunk to monitor cluster health, performance, and resource utilization.
• Quickly resolve any issues affecting the health of the cluster.
• Configure Kubernetes manifest files for containerized application deployments.
• Implement rolling updates, load balancing, and scaling for containerized applications.
• Create config maps, manage secrets, and other critical Kubernetes resources.
• Configure and implement CI/CD pipelines using GitLab and/or ArgoCD.
• Configure and maintain Kubernetes load balancing technologies such as MetalLB.
• Create Infrastructure as Code (IaC) leveraging tools such as Terraform or Ansible to provision Kubernetes clusters.
• Design and implement high availability Kubernetes clusters.
• Implement Kubernetes industry best practices while documenting and share knowledge with existing team members.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Experience working on a Kubernetes platform with a proven ability to config and deploy production workloads.
• Comfortable working in a Linux environment.
• Experience leveraging ArgoCD and Rancher.
• High proficiency in Docker containerization.

What Will Put You Ahead

• Bachelor's degree in software engineering, computer science, IT, or a related field.
• Kubernetes Certification (Certified Kubernetes Administrator, Certified Kubernetes Application Developer)
• Extensive knowledge in microservices application architectures.
• Experience in developing containerized application leveraging Python and Golang.
• Experience supporting a large multi-site, multi-cluster Kubernetes environment .

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