Kubernetes Engineer

Hitachi Solutions, Ltd., headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is a core member of Information & Telecommunication Systems Company of Hitachi Group and a recognized leader in delivering proven business and IT strategies and solutions to companies across many industries. The company provides value-driven services throughout the IT life cycle from systems planning to systems integration, operation and maintenance. Hitachi Solutions delivers products and services of superior value to customers worldwide through key subsidiaries in the United States, Europe, China and India. The flagship company in the Hitachi Group's information and communication system solutions business, Hitachi Solutions also offers solutions for social innovation such as smart cities.

Our Competitive Edge

We work together in a dynamic and rewarding work environment. We have an experienced leadership team, excellent technology and product expertise, and strong relationships with a broad base of customers and partners.

We offer competitive compensation and benefits package, regular performance review, performance bonuses, and regular trainings.

What is it like working here?

We pride ourselves on being industry leaders and providing an enjoyable work environment where our people can grow personally and professionally. Hitachi is the place people can develop skills they’re excited about. The following are our commitments to employees.

• We recognize our profitability and project success comes from our team—great people doing great things. As such, we pursue profitable growth and expanded opportunities for our team.
• We offer challenging and diverse work across multiple industries and reward creativity and entrepreneurial innovation.
• We respect, encourage, and support each individual needs to continually learn and grow personally and professionally. We are committed to fostering our people.
• We listen. Every employee has something important to say that can contribute to enriching our environment.
• We compensate fairly. And while employees might come for the paycheck, they stay for the people. Our people are the reason we are exceptional. This is something we never forget.

KUBERNETES ENGINEER 

This is a full-time role in our product organization for an expert in systems design with considerable skill and expertise in large software development.  Designs and implements Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) tooling using GitHub Actions / Azure DevOps, and related technologies.  This includes defining and implementing build and test pipelines for containerized architectures, infrastructure as code (IaC) for the stateful deployment of environments, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), linting and other code quality controls, gitops and kubernetes pipelines, and managing SaaS deployment APIs.  
 
Individuals in this role will assist in the design, engineering, development, planning and administration of Azure Kubernetes AKS clusters for a set of critical business applications. This role will work closely with application, engineering, security and operations teams to engineer and build Kubernetes and Azure PaaS & IaaS solutions within an agile and modern enterprise grade operating model. Qualified applicants will have a demonstrated capability to learn new concepts quickly, and/or have robust domain expertise.    
 
Essential Functions: 

• Designing, implementing, and maintaining advanced Kubernetes solutions 
• Communicating these solutions in a professional way to both technical and non-technical stakeholders 
• Collaborating with other engineers and members of the team using tools like git, in a secure, effective and scalable way 

Qualifications

• Advanced Kubernetes experience 
• GitOps (FluxCD, ArgoCD) 
• Highly experienced with Docker & Containers and Custom Helm charts 
• Top notch Linux skills 
• SRE experience for a mid to large enterprise system 
• General cloud architecture experience with a major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, GCP) Preferred Azure. 
• Experience with building Kubernetes Operators a plus 
• General DevOps Experience a plus 
• Experience with Custom Controllers, Custom CRD and service mesh. 
• Software Engineering background is nice to have 

Practices, Principles, Techniques 

• Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) 
• Instrumentation strategy and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)  
• Release Communication and Collaboration 
• Security and Compliance  
• TDD (Test Driven Development, especially with respect to CI/CD and DevOps 

EXAMS / CERTIFICATIONS: (OPTIONAL) 

• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert 
• Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert 
• CKAD and/or CKA certifications 

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