Senior Kubernetes Engineer

iqbusiness South Africa

Date: 3 weeks ago
City: Johannesburg, Gauteng
Contract type: Full time

iqx the Technology Division of iqbusiness is seeking highly experienced Senior Kubernetes Specialist to design, implement, secure, and support enterprise-grade Kubernetes platforms running on bare-metal infrastructure. This role requires deep hands-on expertise across the complete Kubernetes platform lifecycle, from infrastructure provisioning and cluster deployment to ongoing operations, security, monitoring, automation, and performance optimization.

The successful candidate will have a strong Linux systems administration background and extensive experience building highly available, production-ready Kubernetes environments.

This role suits a self-driven professional who demonstrates strong ownership, excellent troubleshooting skills, and a passion for automation, platform engineering, and continuous improvement. Experience with cloud infrastructure, particularly AWS, is advantageous.

Experience Required

  • Extensive experience designing and supporting enterprise Kubernetes platforms. Strong Linux systems administration experience.
  • Proven experience deploying and managing production-grade Kubernetes clusters on bare-metal infrastructure.
  • Experience implementing Kubernetes security best practices.
  • Experience with infrastructure automation using Terraform and Ansible.
  • Strong understanding of Kubernetes networking, storage, and observability.
  • Experience supporting containerized applications in production environments.
  • Experience working with distributed SQL query engines and data platforms is advantageous.
  • Exposure to AWS cloud services and Kubernetes services such as Amazon EKS is beneficia Network Policies

Required Technical Skills

Kubernetes

  • Enterprise Kubernetes administration
  • Multi-node, highly available production clusters
  • Bare-metal Kubernetes deployments
  • Cluster lifecycle management
  • Helm package management
  • Cluster upgrades and maintenance

Kubernetes Security

  • RBAC
  • IAM integration
  • OIDC authentication
  • Certificate lifecycle management
  • Kubernetes Secrets
  • CyberArk Conjur
  • Network Policies

As all iqbusiness roles require honesty in the handling of or access to cash, finances, financial systems, or confidential information; our recruitment process requires that the following background checks be completed: credit, criminal, ID, and qualification verification.

iqbusiness is committed to sustainable growth and transformation, we embrace diversity and employ previously disadvantaged individuals

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