Kubernetes Platform Engineer

Invictus Pro Talent

Kubernetes Platform Engineer

Philadelphia, PA
Full Time
Paid
  • Responsibilities

    Position Summary
    The Kubernetes Platform Engineer – Voice Services Modernization is responsible for designing, deploying, automating, and operationalizing cloud-native infrastructure for mission-critical voice applications. This role focuses on transforming traditional VM-based voice middleware and backend services into scalable, resilient Kubernetes-based platforms using modern DevOps, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, and observability practices.

    The engineer will work across infrastructure, application modernization, automation, and operational support to ensure highly available, low-latency voice services are successfully migrated into production cloud-native environments.

    Core Responsibilities

    • Assess existing voice applications, infrastructure dependencies, and VM-based deployment environments
    • Design Kubernetes-based architectures optimized for latency-sensitive and high-availability voice workloads
    • Containerize middleware and backend applications and establish scalable deployment strategies
    • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated testing, deployment, and lifecycle management
    • Develop infrastructure automation using Ansible and Terraform
    • Deploy, configure, and support Kubernetes and cloud platforms across AWS, Azure, GCP, OpenStack, or OpenShift
    • Implement observability solutions including centralized logging, monitoring, alerting, and dashboarding
    • Apply operational best practices for security, resiliency, scalability, and production support
    • Support staged migration planning, testing validation, and production cutover activities
    • Troubleshoot application, platform, and infrastructure issues across cloud-native environments
    • Create operational documentation and provide knowledge transfer to engineering and operations teams
    • Collaborate with development, operations, and architecture teams to modernize legacy voice services

    Required Technical Skills

    • Expert-level Kubernetes administration, deployment, lifecycle management, and troubleshooting
    • Strong Ansible experience including role and playbook development
    • CI/CD pipeline development and automation experience
    • Cloud platform administration (AWS, Azure, GCP, OpenStack)
    • Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform
    • Experience with monitoring, logging, dashboarding, and alerting platforms
    • Scripting or programming experience (Python preferred)
    • Production applications support and operational troubleshooting
    • Understanding of high-availability and low-latency application architectures

    Preferred / Nice-to-Have Skills

    • Red Hat OpenShift experience
    • AI/ML platform exposure or AI-assisted operations tooling
    • Telecom or voice application experience (SIP, SBCs, IMS, voice middleware)
    • Experience supporting cloud-native migrations from VM environments
    • GitOps and modern deployment methodologies
    • Experience with observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Splunk, or Datadog
    • Outcome / Business Objective
    • Deliver a production-ready, Kubernetes-based runtime environment for voice middleware and backend services that improves scalability, resilience, automation, and operational efficiency while minimizing service disruption and migration risk.