InterSystems
Principal Cloud Kubernetes Engineer
Boston, MA · Principal
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About the role
- InterSystems is an E-Verify Employer in the United States.
- InterSystems is providing a current good faith estimate of the anticipated base salary range for this position depending on a variety of factors including experience, education, skills, and performance.
- Our data platforms solve interoperability, speed, and scalability problems for large organizations around the globe to unlock the power of data and allow people to perceive data in imaginative ways.
Responsibilities
- Define and maintain the Kubernetes platform roadmap and cloud-native strategy.
- Lead technical decision-making for container orchestration, platform automation, and cloud infrastructure investments.
- Design, deploy, and operate enterprise Kubernetes platforms using EKS, AKS, GKE, Rancher, Spectro Cloud Palette, or equivalent technologies.
- Design Kubernetes networking architectures leveraging Cilium, Calico, service mesh technologies, and eBPF-based observability.
- Lead adoption of Infrastructure as Code and GitOps methodologies across engineering teams.
- Develop reusable Terraform modules, Helm charts, and platform automation frameworks.
- Design self-service provisioning capabilities for Kubernetes clusters, environments, and application onboarding.
- Implement Kubernetes Operators, controllers, and automation frameworks to eliminate operational toil.
- Design resilient multi-region and disaster recovery architectures.
- Lead cloud infrastructure modernization initiatives and workload migrations.
Requirements
- 12+ years of infrastructure, cloud engineering, DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering experience.
- 7+ years of hands-on Kubernetes experience in production environments.
- Deep expertise designing and operating Kubernetes platforms at enterprise scale.
- Strong experience with cloud platforms including AWS, Azure, and/or GCP.
- Advanced experience with GitOps methodologies and tools such as Argo CD, Flux, and Fleet.
- Strong understanding of Kubernetes internals including:
- Experience with service mesh technologies including Istio, Linkerd, or Consul.
- Expertise in Kubernetes networking, CNI implementations, and eBPF technologies such as Cilium.
- Strong programming experience with Go, Python, or similar languages.
- Experience with enterprise identity integration using OIDC, SAML, LDAP, and cloud-native identity services.
Nice to have
- Experience with Rancher, Spectro Cloud Palette, Crossplane, Backstage, or other platform engineering solutions.
- Experience designing Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs).
- Experience with OpenTelemetry and distributed tracing architectures.
- Experience implementing software supply chain security controls.
- Experience managing regulated or highly compliant environments.
- Active participation in Kubernetes or CNCF open-source communities.
- Experience presenting architecture guidance to executive leadership and technical stakeholders.
- Preferred Certifications
Compensation
- $140,000 - $206,000 USD
Benefits
- InterSystems, a creative data technology provider, delivers a unified foundation for next-generation applications for healthcare, finance, manufacturing, and supply chain customers in more than 80 countries.
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