Seeking a Senior DevOps Consultant with extensive experience in Kubernetes, containerization, CI/CD automation, and cloud platforms. This role focuses on enabling cloud-native deployments, championing DevOps best practices, and automating release processes to support application modernization across enterprise-level platforms.

The ideal candidate will demonstrate practical expertise in managing the Kubernetes ecosystem, automating infrastructure provisioning, and ensuring operational excellence. A strong understanding of monitoring and observability tools is also essential for this position.

Design and implement robust CI/CD pipelines for seamless application deployment, automating build, release, and deployment across diverse environments. Support cloud-native application deployment and modernization efforts by developing reusable automation frameworks. Ensure the reliability, scalability, and availability of platforms.

Administer Kubernetes clusters, manage workloads, monitor performance, and optimize resource utilization. Troubleshoot platform and application issues while enforcing Kubernetes security best practices.

Containerize applications using Docker and Kubernetes standards, supporting development teams in adopting these strategies. Manage container registries and their lifecycle.

Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions to automate provisioning and configuration of infrastructure. Maintain cloud infrastructure and platform configurations, supporting environment creation.

Configure and maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions, creating dashboards for performance metrics and proactive issue detection. Support performance tuning and capacity planning.

Collaborate effectively with architects, developers, and operations teams, providing technical guidance. Drive DevOps best practices and participate in architecture reviews and release planning.

Candidates must possess strong Kubernetes administration skills, with hands-on expertise in Docker and containerization. Proven experience in building and managing CI/CD pipelines, along with proficiency in Git, GitHub, and GitLab is required. Experience with GitHub Actions and deployment automation is essential.

Strong Linux administration skills and proficiency in Shell Scripting (Bash) are necessary. Experience with Infrastructure as Code, preferably Terraform, and hands-on experience with monitoring tools like Grafana, Prometheus, Dynatrace, and Splunk are crucial.

A solid understanding of networking concepts, including DNS, Load Balancers, TLS/SSL, Reverse Proxies, and Ingress Controllers, is mandatory. Familiarity with cloud platforms and DevOps/DevSecOps practices is key. The ability to troubleshoot production issues and support critical deployments is also a requirement.