Our client seeks an Sr. Kubernetes Engineer for a 12 Months project in Dallas, TX/ Chicago, IL . Below is the detailed requirement Title: Sr. Kubernetes Engineer Location : Dallas, TX/ Chicago, IL Duration: 12 Months Job Description: Bachelor's degree preferably in Computer Science, Information technology, Computer Engineering, or related IT discipline or equivalent experience with 12+ Minimum Experience We need someone who's good at setting up CI/CD pipelines using DevOps tools like Jenkins, Artifactory, Kubernetes, Vault, SonarQube, GitHub, Terraform, Ansible, Rancher, and Harness. It's also important that DevOps Engineer has experience with deploying the applications on Kubernetes using Rancher, Helm Charts and Harness. Plus, they should know about deploying Kafka MRC and using monitoring tools like Logic Monitor and Splunk. And it'd be great if he/she has experience with AWS services, especially setting up S3 and AWS Artifactory, and know how to do S3 replication. Experience with Rancher RKE2 K8s clusters and orchestration platform K8S cluster management, Monitoring, operational tools integration K8s cluster and secrets management integration K8s Calico CNI configuration and troubleshooting experience K8s CSI plug-ins with object, file and block storage vendors Kubernetes backup solution and support S3/Cloudian object storage for shared infrastructure Specializing in Cloud Infrastructure Modernization, virtualization, data center setup, DR & BC Strategies, and DevOps Experience in on-premises data center operations, AWS hosted data center and operations management Pilot Kafka data replication between AWS and On-Prem Hands on experience with migrations tools Experience with continuous deployment tools, techniques, and automation frameworks especially Terraform Enterprise and Ansible. Hands-on experience writing testable scripts using Python or other languages. Experience managing helm charts and deploying into Kubernetes (K8s) Expertise with monitoring related tools and frameworks like Splunk, LogicMonitor, SignalFX, and Prometheus. Worked on projects involving deployment and management of micro services, and hybrid cloud/on-prem infrastructure Intermediate working knowledge of development tools like Maven/Gradle, Java, and distributed message brokers like Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, Amazon Kinesis, etc. Good to Have Knowledge of setting up CI/CD pipelines for streaming Flink based applications is an added advantage