Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Rockwell Automation is a global technology leader focused on helping the world’s manufacturers be more productive, sustainable, and agile. They are seeking a Senior Cloud Services Engineer to support their Plex Cloud Operations team, focusing on maintaining and scaling their Kubernetes-based platform while ensuring high availability, security, and performance.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and improve our Kubernetes platform, ensuring high availability and scalability
• Implement infrastructure/configuration as code to automate operations. (Terraform, Ansible, Helm, Flux, Kustomize)
• Enhance observability and logging using OpenTelemetry and Elastic
• Building automated solutions that enable resiliency and self-healing of applications
• Managing Server Operating Systems (Windows and Linux)
• Managing Web Servers (IIS 10)
• Troubleshoot production incidents, perform root cause analysis, and drive reliability improvements
• Evaluate and implement cloud-native technologies to enhance platform efficiency
• Collaborate with security teams to ensure best practices for container security and compliance
• Work with multi-cluster management solutions such as Rancher, Cluster API (CAPI), or other Kubernetes fleet management tools
• Manage Kubernetes infrastructure on Azure and vSphere
• Participate in an on-call rotation to support platform operations and respond to incidents

Skills

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent years of relevant work experience
• Legal authorization to work in the U.S. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job opening
• Maintain and improve our Kubernetes platform, ensuring high availability and scalability
• Implement infrastructure/configuration as code to automate operations. (Terraform, Ansible, Helm, Flux, Kustomize)
• Enhance observability and logging using OpenTelemetry and Elastic
• Building automated solutions that enable resiliency and self-healing of applications
• Managing Server Operating Systems (Windows and Linux)
• Managing Web Servers (IIS 10)
• Troubleshoot production incidents, perform root cause analysis, and drive reliability improvements
• Evaluate and implement cloud-native technologies to enhance platform efficiency
• Collaborate with security teams to ensure best practices for container security and compliance
• Work with multi-cluster management solutions such as Rancher, Cluster API (CAPI), or other Kubernetes fleet management tools
• Manage Kubernetes infrastructure on Azure and vSphere
• Participate in an on-call rotation to support platform operations and respond to incidents
• Typically requires 5+ years of relevant professional experience in a cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or operations role
• 3+ years managing multi-cluster Kubernetes environments. (Rancher & Cluster API)
• Hands-on experience with Azure and vSphere as Kubernetes infrastructure providers
• Experience with Linux administration and container runtimes (Docker, containerd)
• Solid understanding of RBAC, security policies, and secrets management in Kubernetes
• Proficiency with Terraform and Ansible
• Familiarity with observability tools (OpenTelemetry, Elastic, PRTG, and Dynatrace)
• Public Cloud experience (Microsoft Azure or Amazon Web Services)
• Knowledge of .Net website functionality
• Load balancer experience (F5 LTM, Azure Load Balancer)
• Understanding of IPv4/IPv6, FTP, HTTP, SSL/TLS, HTML, XML
• The ability to participate in an on-call rotation for platform support
• Prior experience in SRE or Platform Engineering roles
• Degree in Computer Science or related area

Benefits

• Health Insurance including Medical, Dental and Vision
• 401k
• Paid Time off
• Parental and Caregiver Leave
• Flexible Work Schedule where you will work with your manager to enjoy a work schedule that can be flexible with your personal life.

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