Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. The Fountain Group is a national staffing firm seeking a Systems Reliability Engineer for a prominent client. The role maintains and enhances Kubernetes platforms across on-premises and cloud environments, supports Rancher-managed clusters and Linux systems, and advances infrastructure-as-code, GitOps, automation, reliability, and operational efficiency.
Responsibilities
- Position will help maintain, enhance, and evolve the Kubernetes platforms that enable scientific and engineering teams to deploy, operate, and scale critical applications across both on-premises and cloud environments
- Strengthen our team’s platform engineering and operational capabilities. You will play a key role in supporting Kubernetes infrastructure managed through Rancher, improving system reliability and automation, and advancing infrastructure-as-code and GitOps practices across our environment
- Platform Operations: Maintain and enhance Kubernetes platforms across on-premises and cloud environments, ensuring reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency
- Cluster Management: Support provisioning, upgrades, troubleshooting, and lifecycle management of Kubernetes clusters managed through Rancher
- Linux Systems Administration: Provide deep technical expertise in Linux-based systems, including performance tuning, troubleshooting, automation, and operational support
- Infrastructure as Code: Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code solutions to standardize and automate platform deployment and management, with a preference for Cluster API (CAPI)-based approaches
- GitOps and Deployment Automation: Support and improve GitOps workflows using ArgoCD to manage cluster and application configuration in a consistent, auditable manner
- Collaboration: Work closely with developers, scientists, and infrastructure teams to deliver reliable platform services and translate operational needs into sustainable engineering solutions
- Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities to improve platform resilience, observability, security, and
Skills
- Candidates can live anywhere in the US but must be able to work 8am – 5pm/9am – 6pm EST
- Minimum of 5 years professional experience in site reliability engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, or systems engineering roles
- Candidates must have 5 years strong system administration with Linux!
- Rancher for Kubernetes experience is a must
- Hands-on experience operating and supporting Kubernetes platforms in production environments
- Strong experience managing Kubernetes clusters in both on-premises and cloud-based environments
- Strong Linux systems administration skills, including troubleshooting, scripting, networking, and system performance analysis
- Experience with Rancher for Kubernetes cluster management and platform operations
- Experience implementing infrastructure-as-code solutions for platform provisioning and lifecycle management
- Demonstrated success working in Agile teams (Scrum, Kanban)
- GitOps/CI-CD: ArgoCD, Git version control, and deployment automation practices
- Scripting/Automation: Bash, Python, or similar scripting languages for automation and operational tooling
- Bachelors is preferred but not required
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code solutions for platform provisioning and lifecycle management. Infrastructure as Code: Strong IaC experience; Cluster API (CAPI) preferred
- Experience with hybrid infrastructure spanning on-premises and public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Experience with Kubernetes ecosystem tooling for observability, logging, monitoring, and alerting
- Familiarity with security best practices for Kubernetes and Linux platforms
- Experience supporting scientific research environments, high-performance computing, or computational science workflows
- Knowledge of CI/CD pipeline development and platform automation patterns
Benefits
- Remote work arrangement; candidates can live anywhere in the US but must be able to work EST hours
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