Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Dice is seeking a Senior Platform / DevOps Engineer with expertise in SUSE Rancher and Kubernetes management. The role involves leading the design, deployment, automation, and operational management of multi-cluster Kubernetes platforms across various environments.
Responsibilities
- Architect, deploy, and manage multi-cluster Kubernetes environments using SUSE Rancher (RKE, RKE2, or K3s) across hybrid/multi-cloud infrastructures (AWS EKS, Azure AKS, Bare-Metal)
- Manage cluster life cycle operations, including node provisioning, automated upgrades, certificate rotations, and disaster recovery/backup procedures
- Configure centralized authentication (Active Directory, Okta, LDAP) and enforce granular Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) across all downstream clusters using Rancher
- Automate cloud and edge infrastructure provisioning using Terraform, Ansible, and Rancher API/Cluster API
- Establish declarative, multi-cluster GitOps deployment workflows using Rancher Fleet, ArgoCD, or Flux
- Build and maintain standardized Helm charts and application packaging pipelines for developer teams
- Implement zero-trust container security policies using SUSE NeuVector or admission policy controllers (Kyverno, OPA Gatekeeper)
- Apply hardened security configurations based on CIS Benchmarks, NIST, or FedRAMP standards across operating systems and container platforms
- Integrate vulnerability scanning into build and deployment pipelines (SAST, image scanning, dependency checks)
- Maintain enterprise monitoring, logging, and alerting stacks using Prometheus, Grafana, Thanos, OpenSearch, or ELK integrated with Rancher
- Optimize persistent storage plugins (Longhorn, Ceph, Cloud CSI drivers) and ingress controllers (NGINX, Traefik, Istio)
- Participate in on-call escalation rotations, conduct root cause analysis (RCA) for production incidents, and maintain system reliability SLA/SLOs
Skills
- 5+ years in DevOps, Platform Engineering, or SRE roles, with at least 3+ years dedicated to supporting Kubernetes in production environments
- Proven track record deploying, migrating, and supporting multi-cluster Kubernetes environments using SUSE Rancher
- Strong experience with RKE2, K3s, upstream Kubernetes, containerd, and Docker
- Expertise in Terraform, Ansible, Helm, and GitOps principles
- Solid hands-on experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform) and on-premises environments
- Solid foundation in CNI plugins (Calico, Cilium, Flannel), ingress routing, DNS, TLS/SSL certificates, and RBAC
- SUSE Certified Administrator (SCA) in SUSE Rancher Prime or RKE2
- CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator) or CKS (Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist)
- HashiCorp Terraform Associate
- Experience with SUSE Harvester (Hyperconverged Infrastructure) for hypervisor/VM workload management alongside containers
- Experience with service mesh frameworks (Istio or Linkerd)
- Scripting capability in Python, Go, or Bash
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