Kaiser Permanente (KP) aims to accelerate enterprise application modernization by enabling tenants to adopt container platforms like OpenShift and Azure AKS. The Container Platform and Adoption Services team seeks a Cloud Developer to design and implement platform feature enhancements, onboarding automation, and container adoption solutions, while also leading offshore engineers to deliver high-quality platform capabilities.
Requirements
- Design and implement Dockerfiles, Kubernetes/OpenShift manifests, Helm/Kustomize configurations, and CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD).
- Develop and integrate CI/CD workflows and GitOps automation across multiple toolchains and environments.
- Support S3 Object Store and Operator-based workload onboarding, automation, and lifecycle management.
- Leveraging DEVOPS, and both Waterfall and Agile practices, to design, develop, and deliver resilient, secure, multi-channel, high-volume, high-transaction, on/off-premise, cloud-based solutions.
- Translates business requirements, and functional and non-functional requirements, into technical specifications that support integrated and sustainable designs for complex or high impact infrastructure systems by partnering with Business Analysts to understand business needs and functional specifications.
- technical experience in distributed technologies, systems development, and/or networking.
Responsibilities
- Partner with tenant application teams to analyze existing monolithic workloads and guide them through refactoring and migration to container platforms.
- Design and implement Dockerfiles, Kubernetes/OpenShift manifests, Helm/Kustomize configurations, and CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD).
- Enhance and maintain platform capabilities by enabling new Kubernetes features and improving container platform adoption and onboarding efficiency.
- Develop and integrate CI/CD workflows and GitOps automation across multiple toolchains and environments.
- Provide technical guidance on resiliency, scalability, HA, and failover design for both stateless and stateful applications.
- Support S3 Object Store and Operator-based workload onboarding, automation, and lifecycle management.
- Provide L3 engineering support-including troubleshooting complex production issues, root cause analysis, and performance optimization.
Other
- Minimum two (2) years in a technical leadership role with or without direct reports.
- Lead and mentor offshore engineers, ensuring delivery of platform enhancements, adherence to standards, and quality engineering practices.
- Collaborate with Platform Engineering, SRE, and Security teams to ensure all solutions meet compliance, monitoring, and operational readiness standards.
- Participate in 247 on-call rotations for production support escalations and incident response.
- Practices self-leadership and promotes learning in others by building relationships with cross-functional stakeholders; communicating information and providing advice to drive projects forward; influencing team members within assigned unit; listening and responding to, seeking, and addressing performance feedback; adapting to competing demands and new responsibilities; providing feedback to others, including upward feedback to leadership and mentoring junior team members; creating and executing plans to capitalize on strengths and improve opportunity areas; and adapting to and learning from change, difficulties, and feedback.
