Senior Operations Engineer (Kubernetes)

Capgemini is an AI-powered global business and technology transformation partner with nearly 60 years of experience and 420,000 team members in more than 50 countries. They deliver end-to-end services and solutions leveraging expertise across strategy, technology, design, engineering, and business operations.

• Extensive experience as a Kubernetes, SRE, Platform, or Operations Engineer with strong Linux administration and debugging skills.
• Strong hands-on expertise in Kubernetes operations, including node maintenance, patching activities, and production support.
• Experience working with monitoring, logging, observability, and incident management tools in mission-critical environments.
• Ability to investigate complex incidents, analyze operational signals, and distinguish transient warnings from genuine service outages.
• Knowledge of troubleshooting across infrastructure layers, including Linux, networking, storage, virtualization, and platform services.
• Experience making operational risk-based decisions during maintenance windows and production incidents.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills when working with cross-functional technical teams and stakeholders.
• Background in DevOps, Platform Engineering, Cloud technologies, and participation in on-call support for critical incidents.

• Own incident intake, monitoring triage, and alert handling across platforms such as Icinga, Checkmk, Grafana, and other operational tools.
• Execute first-line incident response activities including validation, troubleshooting, evidence collection, and escalation management.
• Diagnose cluster and node issues using tools such as K9s, Kibana, SSH, logs, events, and monitoring platforms.
• Build evidence packs and collaborate with virtualization, network, storage, Linux, and application teams to resolve complex issues.
• Supervise weekly patching activities and perform post-patch health validation and service verification.
• Manage Kubernetes node lifecycle activities, including cordon/uncordon operations, readiness validation, and service checks.
• Resolve recurring infrastructure issues related to storage, filesystems, disk utilization, and node health.
• Maintain and improve incident runbooks, operational procedures, troubleshooting guides, and maintenance validation checklists.

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