Cloud Operations Engineer - Infrastructure

About the role

Headquartered in the United States, TP-Link Systems Inc. is a global provider of reliable networking devices and smart home products, consistently ranked as the world’s top provider of Wi-Fi devices. The company is committed to delivering innovative products that enhance people’s lives through faster, more reliable connectivity. With a commitment to excellence, TP-Link serves customers in over 170 countries and continues to grow its global footprint. We believe technology changes the world for the better!

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain reliable, scalable, and secure cloud-native infrastructure platforms supporting large-scale production workloads.
• Operate and optimize multi-account AWS environments, ensuring infrastructure is secure, repeatable, and auditable through Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform.
• Manage production Kubernetes clusters, including provisioning, upgrades, autoscaling, networking, observability, capacity planning, and day-to-day operations.
• Build and operate Kubernetes ecosystem components such as CRDs, Helm, HPA, Cluster Autoscaler, CoreDNS, and Cluster API.
• Operate and improve GitOps-based deployment workflows using tools such as FluxCD or ArgoCD.
• Manage and enhance Istio service mesh capabilities, including traffic routing, service discovery, resilience, security, and service-to-service communication.
• Define and improve reliability practices, including SLOs, Error Budgets, monitoring, alerting, incident response, and post-mortems.
• Participate in a scheduled on-call rotation to support production cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes platforms.
• Troubleshoot complex production issues across cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, Linux systems, networking, and distributed services.
• Drive automation for infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and operational workflows using Terraform, Go, Python, or similar technologies.
• Collaborate with application engineering, architecture, security, and platform teams to improve infrastructure reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience in cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes operations, platform engineering, SRE, or related areas.
• Strong knowledge of AWS services, including EKS, IAM, VPC, EC2, S3, and related networking and security capabilities.
• Hands-on experience operating Kubernetes in production environments, including cluster architecture, workload orchestration, networking, autoscaling, and troubleshooting.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes ecosystem tools such as CRDs, Helm, Cluster API, HPA, Cluster Autoscaler, and CoreDNS.
• Experience with GitOps tools such as FluxCD or ArgoCD.
• Solid Linux administration and troubleshooting skills, including systemd, networking, and performance analysis.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation using Terraform, Go, Python, or similar tools.
• Good understanding of reliability engineering practices, including SLOs, incident response, monitoring, alerting, and post-mortems.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to diagnose and resolve complex infrastructure issues in distributed systems.
• Good communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional engineering teams.
• Willingness to participate in a scheduled on-call rotation.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with NVIDIA device plugins, GPU scheduling, or GPU workload operations in Kubernetes environments.
• Experience with additional public cloud platforms such as Azure or Alibaba Cloud.
• Kubernetes certifications such as CKA, CKAD, or CKS are a plus.

Benefits

• Salary range: $100-150K
• Free snacks and drinks
• Fully paid medical, dental, and vision insurance (partial coverage for dependents)
• Contributions to 401k funds
• Health and wellness benefits, including free gym membership
• Quarterly team-building events

Pay

Salary range: $100-150K

Schedule

Not specified