Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Vertex Elite LLC is seeking a Container Platform Engineer-SME to join its team. The role focuses on designing, developing, and managing CI/CD pipelines, supporting Kubernetes and GitOps deployments, and building automation for cloud-native, containerized, and distributed applications.
Skills
- 6–9 years of overall experience in Platform Engineering or Software Engineering
- 3–5 years of hands-on experience designing, developing, and managing CI/CD pipelines for microservices-based applications
- Strong understanding of CI/CD principles, DevOps practices, and automated software delivery
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for containerized and distributed applications
- Strong understanding of GitOps principles and practices, with hands-on experience using ArgoCD for continuous delivery and Kubernetes deployments
- General knowledge of Kubernetes, including pods, deployments, services, namespaces, ingress, configuration, and basic cluster operations
- Familiarity with modern CI/CD tools, technologies, methodologies, and emerging DevOps practices
- Strong understanding of cloud-native architectures, microservices, containers, and distributed systems
- Experience with Git-based source control, branching strategies, automated testing, deployment automation, and release management
- Proficiency in at least one programming/scripting language such as Go, Python, or Bash for automation and platform engineering
- Experience developing automation scripts, deployment utilities, tooling, and platform automation using Go, Python, and/or Bash
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and infrastructure automation is highly desirable
- Understanding of Docker/containerization and cloud-native application deployment
- Experience with monitoring, logging, observability, troubleshooting, and performance optimization in cloud-native environments
- Ability to collaborate with software developers, DevOps engineers, platform teams, and architects to improve application delivery and platform capabilities
- Strong problem-solving, communication, and technical documentation skills
- USC or Any valid USA work authorization
- 100% remote
Benefits
- W2 position with Vertex Elite LLC
- 100% remote
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