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Staff Kubernetes Platform Engineer

Job ID 2025-14415 Date posted 03/07/2025 Location Cambridge, United Kingdom Category IT
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Job Overview:

We are seeking a highly skilled Kubernetes & ContainersEngineer to join our outstanding cloud infrastructure and platform engineers. The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in improving developer experience and operational design of our Kubernetes Platform as a Service. This platform empowers developers and engineers to deploy Kubernetes clusters that align with standard design patterns, across public and private cloud environments. The ideal candidate should possess a robust background in deploying and running Kubernetes clusters across multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud environments at scale.

Responsibilities:

  • Deploy and manage enterprise-scale Kubernetes clusters hosting distributed application services in a multi-tenant environment.
  • Work proficiently with multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud setups, including data centers virtualisation technologies like VMware, Harvester, OpenStack, or others.
  • Contribute to the Kubernetes Platform as a Service product roadmap, including the orchestration of pods, services, deployments, stateful sets, networking (CNI plugins, ingress controllers, service meshes), along with expertise in DNS management (both internal and external), load balancing (open source and cloud-native), and the secure integration of certificates and secrets management.
  • Support engineering teams in refactoring and containerising legacy applications using standard microservices frameworks (e.g., Spring Boot, Quarkus) and Kubernetes standard methodologies. Provide guidance on container standards, CI/CD integration, and scalable deployment patterns to enable efficient modernisation and platform adoption.
  • Use infrastructure as code (IaC) tools such as Helm and Terraform to develop reusable IaC modules. Leverage GitLab and Micro-repos to improve development workflows and design and implement automated pipelines (CI/CD) within the GitOps framework.
  • Implement security standards, including RBAC, network policies, and pod security policies and establish robust monitoring, logging, and alerting frameworks for Kubernetes clusters.
  • Develop high-quality documentation that captures design and operational procedures.

Required Skills and Experience:

  • Hands-on experience in designing and deploying Kubernetes at enterprise scale in a multi-tenant setup with emphasis on security best practices, scalability, and efficiency
  • Familiarity with multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud environments and data centers virtualisation (VMware, KVM, Harvester, etc.) technologies.
  • Profound knowledge of Linux OS, containerisation, Kubernetes, networking, DNS, load balancers, storage, and certificates and secrets management.
  • Expertise in IaC tools (Terraform, Pulumi, CFT, etc.) and the development of IaC modules and self-service platforms (internal developer portals) such as Backstage, Port, OpsLevel, etc.
  • Competence in setting up centralised monitoring, logging, and alerting for Kubernetes clusters.
  • Experience working with networking tools such as Cilium Enterprise.

“Nice To Have” Skills and Experience:

  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) certifications.
  • Experience working automated deployment and management EKS clusters
  • Specialist or Architect level certifications in AWS, GCP, and Azure.
  • Experience in deploying and supporting distributed systems on Kubernetes.

In Return:

Based in Cambridge UK, this is an opportunity to join a dynamic, collaborative, and driven team, and provides a genuine opportunity to craft the best outcomes for Arm.

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