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Simelabs is a product-driven venture-development firm that works with a range of startups and big brands to create compelling, successful, award-winning application. We help people perfect and realise their visions for digital products. While others may just churn out what a client asks for, we strive to truly understand the problems our clients are aiming to solve and will stop at nothing to build solid products that we re proud of.

Roles and Responsibilities

- CI/CD with Azure Pipelines - Design, author, and maintain enterprise-scale Azure DevOps pipelines (YAML, multi-stage, templates, variable groups, environments, approvals, self-hosted agent pools). Drive release management, artifact promotion, and deployment strategies (blue/green, canary, rolling).
- Kubernetes Platform Engineering - Operate production Kubernetes clusters across AKS, Rancher (RKE2/K3s), and SUSE Rancher Prime. Manage cluster lifecycle, upgrades, node pools, taints/tolerations, affinity rules, PodDisruptionBudgets, and HPA/VPA/Cluster Autoscaler.
- Pod & Workload Management - Deep troubleshooting of pod scheduling, init containers, sidecars, probes (liveness/readiness/startup), resource requests/limits, QoS classes, OOMKills, eviction, and CrashLoopBackOff scenarios. Tune kubelet, container runtime (containerd), and cgroup behavior.
- Networking (Cluster & Infra) - Design and operate cluster networking using CNI plugins (Calico, Cilium, Azure CNI), NetworkPolicies, service meshes (Istio/Linkerd), CoreDNS, kube-proxy/IPVS, and east-west traffic flows. Own ingress controllers (NGINX, Traefik, Istio Gateway) and integrate with external/internal load balancers (Azure LB, MetalLB, F5, NSX ALB/Avi).
- Storage & CSI Drivers - Implement and operate persistent storage with CSI drivers including Azure Disk/File CSI, VMware vSphere CSI, Nutanix CSI, Longhorn, and Rook/Ceph. Manage StorageClasses, VolumeSnapshots, energetic provisioning, topology-aware scheduling,



and storage migration.
- Hybrid & On-Prem Platforms - Run Kubernetes on VMware vSphere (with vSphere CSI/CPI), Nutanix AHV/Karbon, and bare-metal SUSE. Coordinate with virtualization, SAN/NAS, and network teams for capacity, datastore, and fabric design
- Load Balancing & Ingress - Architect L4/L7 load balancing across cloud (Azure Load Balancer, Application Gateway, Front Door) and on-prem (F5 BIG-IP, NSX ALB, MetalLB, kube-vip). Manage TLS termination, SNI, mTLS, WAF, session affinity, and health probes.
- Infrastructure as Code & GitOps - Build reusable IaC with Terraform and Helm. Implement GitOps with Argo CD or Flux for declarative cluster and application delivery.
- Observability & SRE - Stand up and operate Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Alertmanager, and OpenTelemetry. Define SLIs/SLOs, drive incident response, post-mortems, and capacity planning.
- Security & Compliance - Enforce Pod Security Standards, RBAC, OPA/Gatekeeper or Kyverno policies, image signing (Cosign), secret management (Key Vault, External Secrets, SealedSecrets), and CIS benchmark hardening.
- Scripting proficiency in Python, Bash, PowerShell, and experience in using git, github projects

The Ideal Candidate
- 6 to 8 years of relevant hands-on DevOps / Platform Engineering experience in enterprise environments
- Minimum 6 years operating production Kubernetes at scale
- Proven track record of running workloads across at least two of: AKS, Rancher/SUSE, VMware, Nutanix
- Excellent problem solving and troubleshooting skills
- Solid understanding of modern networking principles and practices
- Experience working in virtualized environments, preferably VMware and nutanix
- Participate in an on-call rotation for support of systems outside of normal business hours.

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