Extreme Networks is hiring a Cloud Operations Engineer to help lead infrastructure engineering for ExtremeCloud, our multi-cloud SaaS platform. In this role, you will design, build, and operate large-scale, multi-region Kubernetes environments across AWS, GCP, Azure, and on-prem to drive reliability, scalability, and operational excellence.
What You'll Do
- Architect and scale multi-cluster, multi-region Kubernetes deployments using EKS, GKE, and AKS.
- Take end-to-end ownership of production infrastructure, including incident response and postmortems.
- Build and maintain Terraform modules for complex infrastructure patterns using GitOps principles.
- Design and optimize ArgoCD ApplicationSets and Helm chart architectures for automated deployments.
- Analyze system performance, identify bottlenecks, and implement optimizations to improve SLOs.
- Build and enhance monitoring, alerting, and observability using Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and custom tooling.
- Implement security controls, compliance frameworks, and best practices across cloud infrastructure.
- Mentor engineers, establish best practices, and drive technical decisions.
What We're Looking For
- 5+ years in cloud infrastructure engineering, with deep expertise in at least one major cloud provider (AWS preferred).
- Strong Kubernetes experience: cluster design, operators, controllers, and multi-cluster management.
- Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar.
- GitOps expertise: ArgoCD, Flux, or similar; experience with ApplicationSets and complex deployment patterns.
- Deep Linux and networking knowledge.
- Experience with distributed systems: Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, RabbitMQ.
- Experience with monitoring and observability: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, or similar.
- Strong problem-solving skills and experience debugging complex distributed systems.
- Experience with cloud security, compliance (SOC2, ISO27001), and secure-by-design practices.
- Excellent communication skills for working across time zones and with distributed teams.
- Self-directed with a track record of owning problems end-to-end.
Nice to Have
- Experience with multi-cloud architectures and cloud-agnostic patterns.
- Contributions to open-source infrastructure projects.
- Experience with service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd).
- Knowledge of chaos engineering and reliability testing.
- Experience with cost optimization and FinOps practices.
Technical Stack
- Container Platform: Kubernetes
- Cloud Providers: AWS, GCP, Azure
- IaC: Terraform, CloudFormation
- GitOps: ArgoCD, Flux
- OS/Networking: Linux
- Distributed Systems: Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, RabbitMQ
- Monitoring/Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, ELK stack
- Service Mesh: Istio, Linkerd
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