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Application/DevOps Platform Engineer
Qua*** · San Diego, CA, United States
San Diego, CA, United StatesFull timeExp: 3+ yrs39-58 USD/hourlyOnsite
Remuneration
Annual discretionary bonus program, potential annual RSU grants, and benefits package.
Location
San Diego, CA, United States
Visa sponsorship
Sponsors visa
Job summary
Design, build, and operate secure, reliable enterprise application platforms that support application workloads and CI/CD, with primary ownership of Kubernetes clusters, Jenkins infrastructure, and shared platform services. The role focuses on platform automation, governance, onboarding, security, monitoring, and incident response—not application development or tenant pipeline authoring—and uses technologies including Docker, Helm, AWS, Splunk, Datadog, and scripting languages.
Benefits
Annual discretionary bonus programPotential annual RSU grantsBenefits package
Qualifications
- At least 3 years of relevant IT experience with a bachelor's degree, or at least 5 years without one.
- Experience with Linux administration, troubleshooting, performance tuning, and operating system security hardening.
- Hands-on Docker experience and Kubernetes operations knowledge, including architecture, networking, upgrades, and lifecycle management.
- Experience administering Jenkins infrastructure at scale, including controllers, agents, plugins, configuration, and multi-tenant CI environments.
- Experience with observability platforms, AWS infrastructure, networking, scripting, and Git-based version control.
- Strong problem-solving, ownership, operational discipline, collaboration, and accountability.
- A relevant bachelor's degree, or qualifying IT experience with a non-technical degree or high school diploma.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and manage shared application platforms, including Kubernetes clusters and Jenkins infrastructure.
- Operate Jenkins services with shared and dedicated controllers, tenant isolation, and RBAC.
- Define platform standards, guardrails, and application onboarding practices.
- Automate platform provisioning, upgrades, patching, and lifecycle management.
- Partner with application and security teams on onboarding, troubleshooting, production readiness, and secure platform architecture.
- Monitor platform reliability, capacity, performance, and incidents.
- Improve platform scalability and developer experience.
Skills
Argo CDAWSBashCloudFormationDatadogDockerFluxGitHelmIAMIstioJenkinsKongKubernetesLinuxMetalLBNGINXNGINX IngressPythonS3SplunkTerraformVault
Certifications
CKACKAD
Degrees
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems
Languages
PythonShell
Work schedule
Full-timeOnsite five days per week
Industry
Information technologyPlatform engineeringEnterprise infrastructure
Relocation
No