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Kaiser Permanente · 2 months ago

IT Infrastructure Engineer V - Cloud Kubernetes Developer

California-Pleasanton-Pleasanton Tech Cntr Building A

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

8+ years exp

Kaiser Permanente is seeking an IT Infrastructure Engineer V - Cloud Kubernetes Developer to join their Container Platform and Adoption Services team. This role focuses on accelerating enterprise application modernization by enabling the adoption of container platforms and providing technical guidance while leading offshore engineers.

Health CareHospitalMental HealthNon ProfitPersonal Health

Comp. & Benefits

H1B Sponsor Likely

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

Lead and mentor offshore engineers, ensuring delivery of platform enhancements, adherence to standards, and quality engineering practices

Provide L3 engineering support—including troubleshooting complex production issues, root cause analysis, and performance optimization

Collaborate with Platform Engineering, SRE, and Security teams to ensure all solutions meet compliance, monitoring, and operational readiness standards

Participate in 24×7 on-call rotations for production support escalations and incident response

Drive continuous improvement through documentation, reusable frameworks, and automation of onboarding processes

Qualification

KubernetesDockerCI/CDCloud technologiesTechnical leadershipMentorshipCollaborationProblem-solving

Required

Minimum two (2) years in a technical leadership role with or without direct reports

Bachelors degree in Computer Science, CIS, or related field and Minimum eight (8) years experience in an IT operations environment with technical experience in distributed technologies, systems development, and/or networking

Additional equivalent work experience may be substituted for the degree requirement

Company

Kaiser Permanente

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Kaiser Permanente is a health organization that offers disease prevention, mental healthcare, and chronic disease management services.

Founded in 1945

Oakland, California, USA

10001+ employees

https://healthy.kaiserpermanente.org

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