Senior Infra Engineer

Job Title: Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Location: Hybrid – Phoenix, AZ
Tax Term (W2, C2C): Open
Duration: Long-Term

Description:

We are seeking an experienced Senior Infrastructure Engineer with strong expertise in Kubernetes, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), networking, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The ideal candidate will be responsible for designing, deploying, managing, and troubleshooting cloud infrastructure and containerized environments while ensuring high availability, security, scalability, and optimal performance.

Role and Responsibilities:

Kubernetes / GKE

• Design, deploy, administer, and troubleshoot Kubernetes and GKE clusters.

• Manage namespaces, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), network policies, ingress controllers, services, and storage classes.

• Perform cluster upgrades, patching, node pool management, and capacity planning.

• Automate deployments using Helm, Argo CD, and CI/CD pipelines.

• Monitor cluster health, availability, and performance.

• Troubleshoot pod, deployment, service, and ingress-related issues.

Networking

• Configure and troubleshoot TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, and SSL/TLS.

• Manage VPCs, subnets, routing tables, Cloud NAT, and firewall configurations.

• Design secure ingress and egress traffic flows.

• Manage load balancers, VPNs, hybrid connectivity, and DNS solutions.

• Diagnose network latency, packet loss, and connectivity issues.

• Implement Zero Trust security and network segmentation principles.

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

• Design, deploy, and manage GCP infrastructure, including:

  • Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)

  • Compute Engine

  • Cloud Storage

  • Cloud SQL

  • Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

  • Cloud DNS

  • Cloud Load Balancing

  • Cloud NAT

  • Identity and Access Management (IAM)

  • Google Cloud Operations Suite (formerly Stackdriver)

• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform.

• Configure monitoring, logging, alerting, and performance tracking.

• Support disaster recovery, high availability, and infrastructure resilience.

Required Skills:

• Kubernetes and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).

• GCP infrastructure administration and cloud architecture.

• Networking fundamentals: TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, and SSL/TLS.

• VPCs, subnets, routing, firewalls, load balancing, VPN, and hybrid connectivity.

• Helm, Argo CD, and CI/CD automation.

• Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).

• Cloud monitoring, logging, troubleshooting, and alerting.

• High availability, disaster recovery, and cloud security best practices.

Qualifications:

• Proven experience managing Kubernetes clusters and GCP infrastructure in enterprise environments.

• Strong hands-on experience troubleshooting containerized applications and cloud networking.

• Experience automating infrastructure provisioning and application deployments.

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and incident-resolution skills.

• Ability to collaborate with infrastructure, networking, DevOps, and application teams.

• Background verification must be cleared before the start date.