Senior Cloud Operations Engineer – Plex

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 Operations Engineer to maintain and improve their Kubernetes platform, ensuring high availability, security, and performance while collaborating with various teams to automate operations.

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

Requirements:

• 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
• Typically requires 5+ years of relevant professional experience in a cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or operations role
• 3+ years working with Kubernetes in a production environment
• Proficiency with Terraform and Ansible
• Load balancer experience (F5 LTM, Azure Load Balancer)
• Public Cloud experience (Microsoft Azure or Amazon Web Services)
• Experience with Linux administration and container runtimes (Docker, containerd)
• Familiarity with observability tools (OpenTelemetry, Elastic, PRTG, and Dynatrace)
• Experience managing multi-cluster Kubernetes environments. (Rancher & Cluster API)
• Solid understanding of RBAC, security policies, and secrets management in Kubernetes
• Hands-on experience with Azure and vSphere as Kubernetes infrastructure providers
• Capability to analyze packet captures using tools such as Wireshark
• Strong understanding of IPv4/IPv6, FTP, HTTP, SSL/TLS, HTML, XML
• Knowledge of .Net website functionality
• 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