Job#: 3056335 Job Description: Unix/Kubernetes Administrator
Location: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (Partial Remote - Onsite 1-2 days a week)
Role Overview
This technical role supports and maintains enterprise Linux and Kubernetes environments. It entails a hands-on capacity in the implementation, administration, installation, configuration, upgrades, hardening, security, and ongoing maintenance of Kubernetes and Enterprise Linux environments. Collaborative engagement with development and technology teams ensures the platform remains stable, secure, scalable, and optimized for containerized workloads.
Key Responsibilities
- Implement, configure, administer, upgrade, and maintain enterprise Kubernetes environments.
- Create, configure, manage, and troubleshoot Enterprise Linux systems, including RHEL-based environments.
- Perform Kubernetes cluster installation, upgrades, maintenance, hardening, and ongoing administration.
- Support security vulnerability scanning and remediation across the environment.
- Create, manage, and troubleshoot Kubernetes manifest files.
- Develop, review, maintain, and update Helm charts.
- Deploy and support containerized workloads and troubleshoot issues across Kubernetes environments.
- Monitor system and cluster health, troubleshoot performance and availability issues, and improve overall platform reliability.
- Apply security best practices across Linux and Kubernetes infrastructure.
- Work with Git for source control and configuration management.
- Collaborate with developers, infrastructure teams, and other technology stakeholders.
- Support networking components associated with containerized environments, including load balancers, DNS, gateways, proxies, firewalls, services, and APIs.
Required Qualifications
Education: A bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or a related technical field is preferred.
Experience: Demonstrated experience in Kubernetes cluster installation, configuration, upgrades, maintenance, and troubleshooting, coupled with background in enterprise Linux system administration.
Technical Skills: Proficiency in creating, configuring, and managing Enterprise Linux systems, particularly RHEL or similar distributions. Experience with Kubernetes manifest files, Helm charts, Git, and a working knowledge of CI/CD concepts and tooling are necessary.
Preferred Qualifications
- Understanding of networking technologies, including load balancing, DNS, gateways, proxies, firewalls, services, and APIs.
- Experience deploying containerized applications in a public cloud provider, such as AWS EKS/ECS or Azure ACI/AKS.
- Experience reviewing and troubleshooting Java VM and Tomcat configurations and errors.
- Understanding of PostgreSQL deployment and configuration.
- Knowledge of Gradle or Maven build processes.
- Exposure to enterprise infrastructure technologies such as AIX, virtualization, HPE, Dell, and IBM hardware.
- Familiarity with disaster recovery processes.
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