DevOps Engineer – Kubernetes

Responsibilities

• Implement best practices for automation, scalability, and system reliability on high‑traffic web applications hosted with Kubernetes.
• Support and maintain customer infrastructure across Kubernetes upgrades and software supply chain changes.
• Participate in continuous improvement processes with a focus on supporting full‑stack developers managing complex deployments (in development environment).
• Support freshcells adoption and implementation of DevOps and MLOps best practices: up to 25% of working time for learning and experimenting, based on needs and direction of freshcells.

Requirements

• Expertise with containerization (Docker) and container orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Experience with Helm, including writing and maintaining custom Helm charts.
• Hands‑on experience with cloud platforms (Google Cloud Platform or similar).
• Experience running production workloads on Kubernetes.
• Experience setting up and managing CI/CD pipelines.
• Familiarity with GitOps and continuous delivery tools such as Flux CD.
• Solid understanding of infrastructure‑as‑code tools (ideally Terraform).
• Familiarity with Linux, shell scripting, and/or Python.
• Experience with observability, including setting up and using logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting.
• Experience with creating machine learning pipelines or willingness to learn them on the job.
• Fluency in English.

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in containerization and orchestration with Docker and Kubernetes, alongside proficiency in CI/CD pipeline management and infrastructure‑as‑code tools like Terraform. Capable of supporting full‑stack development and implementing DevOps and MLOps best practices in high‑traffic web applications.