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Sr Cloud Engineer - Kubernetes

At Rackspace, we accelerate the value of the cloud during every phase of digital transformation.

Rackspace

Employee count: 5000+

Salary: 105k-180k USD

United States only
Job Summary:The ideal candidate will have several years’ experience with Public Cloud design and implementation. You will be working in a dynamic environment and encouraged to come up with innovative solutions to technical problems, analyze and prioritize problems, putting users at the heart of every decision. You will ideally have proven experience in GCP, AWS or Azure deployments. Your engagements will see you working directly with customers and prospects. You'll have confidence in knowing your skills (and limitations), you are calm and collected under pressure, and always available to mentor team members with less experience. Your colleagues see you as a good team player who is keen to share knowledge, listen, and learn from others.

Work Locations:

USA Remote or Canada in Ontario, British Columbia, and Alberta.

Key Responsibilities

  • Own and complete key tasks and deliverables, and collaborate with others to define and implement optimal, complete solutions based on stakeholders’ needs.
  • Deliver solutions that solve for new levels of complexity, scale, performance, and enable breakthrough innovations. Create and apply frameworks, methods, best practices, and artifacts that deliver prescriptive guidance to customers, and publish and present the min large forums and across various media platforms.
  • Technical depth and hands-on implementation experience of various practices and tools in the DevOps toolchain.
  • Comfortable rolling up their sleeves to design and code modules for infrastructure, applications, and processes.
  • Design, build, and maintain cloud-based applications that use Kubernetes

Qualifications

  • Minimum Qualifications
  • 5+ years of experience in Public Cloud
  • Experience running Multi-tenant Kubernetes clusters with 75+ nodes on either EKS, AKS, or GKE
  • Expert Knowledge of the primary cloud services (Compute Engine, Load Balancing, Cloud Storage)
  • Experience with automating cloud native technologies, deploying applications, and provisioning infrastructure
  • Expert-level knowledge and hands-on experience with infrastructure, as code, utilizing Terraform
  • Experience developing cloud native CI/CD workflows and tools
  • Proven experience owning and driving projects to successful completion, including leading small teams to achieve project goals
  • Preferred Qualifications:
  • Expert level familiarity with automating cloud native technologies, deploying applications, and provisioning infrastructure using Bash, Java, Python, or GO
  • Experience with seamless/automated build scripts used for release management across all environments.
  • Experience with OTel
  • Datadog, New Relic, and Synthetic Testing.
  • In-depth understanding of IP networking, VPN's, DNS, load balancing, and firewalls.
  • Willingness to travel to customer locations as needed.
  • Experience with multi-cloud architecture and deployment.
  • Discover your inner Racker: Racker Life
  • Information on benefitsoffered is here.
The following information is required by pay transparency legislation in the following states: CA, CO, HI, NY, and WA. This information applies only to individuals working in these states.
•The anticipated starting pay range for Colorado is: $105,100 - $154,110
•The anticipated starting pay range for the states of Hawaii and New York (not including NYC) is: $111,800 - $164,010
•The anticipated starting pay range for California, New York City and Washington is: $122,500 - $179,630
Unless already included in the posted pay range and based on eligibility, the role may include variable compensation in the form of bonuses, commissions, or other discretionary payments. These discretionary payments are based on company and/or individual performance and may change at any time. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors, including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, licenses and certifications, and specific work location.
"Remote postings are limited to candidates residing within the country specified in the posting location"

About Rackspace Technology

We are the multicloud solutions experts. We combine our expertise with the world’s leading technologies — across applications, data and security — to deliver end-to-end solutions. We have a proven record of advising customers based on their business challenges, designing solutions that scale, building and managing those solutions, and optimizing returns into the future. Named a best place to work, year after year according to Fortune, Forbes and Glassdoor, we attract and develop world-class talent. Join us on our mission to embrace technology, empower customers and deliver the future.

More on Rackspace Technology

Though we’re all different, Rackers thrive through our connection to a central goal: to be a valued member of a winning team on an inspiring mission. We bring our whole selves to work every day. And we embrace the notion that unique perspectives fuel innovation and enable us to best serve our customers and communities around the globe. We welcome you to apply today and want you to know that we are committed to offering equal employment opportunity without regard to age, color, disability, gender reassignment or identity or expression, genetic information, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity status, military or veteran status, nationality, ethnic or national origin, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or any legally protected characteristic. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

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Salary: 105k-180k USD

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At Rackspace, we accelerate the value of the cloud during every phase of digital transformation. By managing apps, data, security, and multiple clouds, we are the best choice to help customers get to the cloud, innovate with new technologies, and maximize their IT investments. As a recognized Gartner Magic Quadrant leader, we are uniquely positioned to close the gap between the complex reality of today and the promise of tomorrow. Passionate about customer success, we provide unbiased expertise, based on proven results, across all the leading technologies. And across every interaction worldwide, we deliver Fanatical Experience TM — the best customer service experience in the industry. Rackspace has been honored by Fortune, Forbes, Glassdoor, and others as one of the best places to work.

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