Principal Engineer - Kubernetes Engineering

About the role

Publix Super Markets, Inc. is seeking a highly motivated Principal Engineer to help build and support our Kubernetes-based digital platform across the public cloud, data center, and edge environments.

Responsibilities

• Support development teams in shipping and operating their applications on our Kubernetes platform.
• Design, build, and integrate tools to enhance developer experience when deploying to the platform.
• Aid teams in following best practices for observability and vulnerability management.
• Troubleshoot and debug cluster and application issues across multiple platforms.
• Maintain and upgrade the platform regularly.
• Participate in on-call rotation.

Requirements

• Must have a bachelor’s degree in computer science, or an analytical discipline, or equivalent experience, with 6+ years of Kubernetes experience in a large-scale multi-tenant cluster environment.
• Experience with AKS / K3s / GKE / OpenShift.
• 6+ years building, managing, and troubleshooting Kubernetes in a multi-cluster environment.
• 2+ years of Cloud Native development experience.
• Experience managing Kubernetes clusters in cloud providers such as Azure or Google Cloud.
• Experience with .NET and/or GO as the primary languages in the environment.
• Performing advanced application service debugging and follow best practices to assist application teams in delivering services.

Preferred Qualifications

• An active Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) certification.
• Experience with cloud native observability tools like OpenTelemetry.
• Experience deploying applications with custom Helm charts.
• Experience with OpenShift Container Platform.
• Experience with logging and monitoring applications such as Prometheus, Elasticsearch, FluentD, Kibana, Grafana, etc.
• Experience with Artifactory or Nexus.
• Experience with working virtualization technologies such as VMWare.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes DNS how it interacts with external DNS servers.
• Experience collaborating with and across Agile teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions in full-stack development tools and technologies.