GKE DevOps/Administrator position (level middle+). Remote.

Brief

Prevalent IoT is seeking an experienced DevOps/Administrator for a full-time position monitoring and administering a high availability Google Cloud Kubernetes cluster (GKE).  Work with a devoted team on a cutting-edge IoT project in the agricultural sector that supports thousands of users & devices and is growing rapidly and globally.  To be considered, you must be a Senior DevOps professional at the top of your field and have a minimum of eight years experience.  Join a family that works closely together and is dedicated to achieving the end-goal, which is supremacy within our sector.  Competitive compensation package and salary, which may include stock options for the truly exceptional candidate. 

Qualifications for GKE DevOps/Administrator

Maintaining all K8s clusters (GKE)  services in optimal working order (24/7). Optimizing cluster operation for speed and price in Google Cloud.

• 30+ y.o.

•  Candidate must be mature and experienced.  8+ years experience in a production environment in a DevOps position

•  Deep working knowledge of GCP (GKE).

• Strong planning skills. Ability to fragment architectural tasks into sub-tasks and make an implementation plan with achievable due dates.

• Ability to setup alerts and react to cluster incidents 24/7 and resolve issues that may arise.

• As part of a hard-working team, take initiative to solve tasks on your own.

• Ability to independently define and implement tasks at the architectural level.

• Ability to learn quickly and master new technologies.

• Experience dealing with Google support to resolve technical issues.

Knowledge/experience requirements

• Heavy load, high availability architectures design in K8s in Google Cloud (GKE)

• Development of self-hosted MongoDB clusters

• EMXQ MQTT broker cluster setup, design, scale and maintain

• REDIS cluster design, setup, maintain

• GCP alert policy design, optimize

• Deep knowledge of all tools and services of GCP

• Experience in setup, scale, maintain for mail services in GCP (mailu)

• GitLab CI/CD (runners setup, etc.)

• Argo

• HELM
• Terraform

• Experience in creation of useful Grafana/Prometheus dashboards for a cluster overview

• Minio

• Writing tests for services (e.g. on Python, JS, Go) and finding weak places of an architecture

• Ability to analyze traffic between services of a cluster and offer optimization solutions.

• Ingress/NGINX

• Real experience for routing socketio traffic between load balancers/NGINX and pods

• Experience in optimization of auto-scale for pods

• Experience in analyze pods and find best policy for auto-scale

• Experience in transition of alive projects between domains

• Experience in transition docker-compose based products into GKE

Knowledge that will be a big plus

• Golang

• NodeJs

• Python

• Analyze code base for services written on above languages

Test

• Live technical interview

• We have GCP based cluster made from the docker-based architecture (link)

  • Research it (the link contains docker-compose and related architectural files)

  • Offer your architectural solution for the docker-compose system in GKE (with all extra tools you’d implement if were contractor for the offer from the link)

  • Send your solution to admin@prevalentiot.com

Test passed case

If you passed the test. Your first tasks on the DevOps position:

• Research current GKE solutions

• Administer the cluster

• Find weak places and offer improvements