Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Dice is hiring a Senior Engineer, Restaurant Systems - Edge Platform & Kubernetes Operations to support its restaurant technology environment. The role owns the design, implementation, reliability, security, scalability, and continuous evolution of highly available K3s-based edge clusters, while integrating them with Google Cloud and partnering across engineering, infrastructure, cybersecurity, service desk, and vendor teams.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and support a fleet of highly available K3s clusters deployed across 1,200+ restaurant locations
- Develop and maintain edge computing architectures that support local autonomy while integrating with centralized Google Cloud Platform (Google Cloud Platform) and/or other cloud service(s) platforms
- Engineer solutions for automatic failover, disaster recovery, workload mobility, quorum management, and node resiliency
- Define hardware, storage, and networking standards for edge deployments
- Serve as the technical leader for Kubernetes operations, upgrades, lifecycle management, and cluster health
- Manage containerized and virtualized workloads running on Kubernetes and KubeVirt
- Establish operational standards for cluster provisioning, scaling, patching, and decommissioning
- Improve platform reliability through infrastructure automation and self-healing capabilities
- Design and support shared storage architectures using technologies such as Rook/Ceph
- Monitor cluster quorum, data replication, storage performance, and recovery procedures
- Lead testing and validation of failover scenarios, node outages, and disaster recovery processes
- Ensure stateful workloads maintain availability and data integrity during failure events
- Integrate edge computing platforms with Google Cloud services including:
- Design secure management and observability paths between restaurant edge clusters and cloud-hosted services
- Optimize cloud consumption and operational efficiency
- Build and maintain enterprise observability solutions leveraging Prometheus, Grafana, monitoring platforms, and centralized telemetry pipelines
- Establish service-level indicators (SLIs), service-level objectives (SLOs), and reliability metrics
- Drive root cause analysis and post-incident reviews for platform outages and service degradations
- Partner with support organizations to develop operational runbooks and escalation procedures
- Build Infrastructure-as-Code and GitOps-based deployment models
- Automate edge cluster deployment, onboarding, upgrades, and compliance validation
- Develop CI/CD processes supporting edge and cloud-native applications
- Reduce operational overhead through orchestration, scripting, and platform automation
- Implement secure-by-design platform controls across compute, storage, networking, and cloud integrations
- Work closely with Security teams on CIS hardening, vulnerability remediation, certificate management, and platform compliance
- Ensure restaurant systems meet company security and data protection standards
- Act as a subject matter expert for Kubernetes, edge computing, and distributed systems
- Mentor engineers and support teams on cloud-native technologies and operational best practices
- Evaluate emerging technologies and develop future-state architecture recommendations
- Participate in vendor evaluations, proof-of-concepts, and platform roadmap planning
Skills
- 8+ years of infrastructure, cloud, systems engineering, or platform engineering experience
- 5+ years managing Kubernetes-based production environments
- Experience supporting distributed systems across hundreds or thousands of remote locations
- Proven experience operating mission-critical, highly available platforms
- Kubernetes (K3s, upstream Kubernetes, or OpenShift)
- Linux administration and troubleshooting
- KubeVirt or virtualization platforms
- Storage technologies including Ceph, Rook, SAN, NAS, or distributed storage
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, etc.)
- GitOps solutions such as ArgoCD or Flux
- CI/CD pipelines and automation frameworks
- Networking fundamentals including:
- DNS
- TCP/IP
- Load balancing
- VPNs
- Routing
- Firewalls
- Monitoring and observability platforms such as Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Mimir, or equivalent
- Strong experience with Google Cloud Platform
- Experience with hybrid cloud and edge architectures
- Familiarity with cloud security and operational governance
- Experience operating edge computing solutions at enterprise scale
- Restaurant, retail, hospitality, or distributed operations experience
- Experience supporting payment systems or PCI-sensitive workloads
- Google Cloud Professional certification
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS)
- Experience with KubeVIP, MetalLB, Multus, Whereabouts, or other advanced Kubernetes networking technologies
- Experience leading large-scale modernization or platform transformation initiatives
Benefits
- Dallas, TX (Hybrid) or Full Remote
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