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I am Mohammed Dastagir with Saxon Global Inc wanted to let you know about the job opportunity for Senior Kubernetes Platform Engineer position if interested please share your updated resume along with expecting rate.
Title: Senior Kubernetes Platform Engineer
Duration: 6 Month+ Contract
Location: 100% Remote (EST Hours)
Only on W2
Overview
Seeking a Kubernetes Platform Engineer to support the production rollout of an existing enterprise Kubernetes environment and assist with AI gateway evaluations and deployments.
This resource will serve as a hands-on engineering contributor embedded within the customer environment, leveraging established platform designs and deployment manifests to complete production implementation efforts, troubleshoot issues, and support AI platform initiatives.
This is a highly technical, execution-focused role requiring strong Kubernetes, Linux, networking, storage, automation, and platform troubleshooting experience.
Primary Responsibilities
- Execute and validate production Kubernetes deployments using existing platform designs and deployment manifests
- Troubleshoot Linux, container, networking, storage, and cluster-related issues
- Deploy and support AI gateway proof-of-concepts and inference platform integrations
- Integrate and validate model-serving endpoints
- Evaluate authentication, routing, rate limiting, observability, and platform performance
- Support Kubernetes networking, ingress, load balancing, DNS, storage, and security configurations
- Maintain deployment automation workflows and operational runbooks
- Document findings and provide knowledge transfer to customer teams
- Collaborate with platform engineering teams to resolve infrastructure and application issues
- Provide recommendations related to platform performance, scalability, and operational readiness
Required Qualifications
- Proven experience deploying and supporting production Kubernetes environments
- Strong experience with on-premises or bare-metal Kubernetes deployments
- Advanced Linux administration experience
- Experience with container runtimes and containerized application deployments
- Strong knowledge of:
- Kubernetes Networking
- DNS
- Ingress Controllers
- Load Balancing
- Persistent Storage
- RBAC
- Secrets Management
- TLS/Certificates
- Experience with Helm, Kustomize, YAML, and Git-based deployment workflows
- Python and/or Bash automation experience
- Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, or similar monitoring platforms
- Experience integrating APIs, AI services, or inference endpoints
- Ability to work independently within a customer environment
Preferred Qualifications
- NVIDIA GPU infrastructure experience
- GPU Operator implementation and support
- GPU monitoring and optimization
- vLLM or similar LLM-serving platforms
- AI/API Gateway products (Solo.io, Kong, Apigee, NGINX Gateway, etc.)
- RDMA, InfiniBand, or RoCEv2 experience
- NCCL performance testing
- Slurm workload scheduler experience
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
Mohammed Dastagir
Sr Resource Manager
Saxon Global Inc.
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