Job Description

MatchPoint Solutions is a fast-growing, young, energetic global IT-Engineering services company with clients across the US. We provide technology solutions to various clients like Uber, Robinhood, Netflix, Airbnb, Google, Sephora, and more! More recently, we have expanded to working internationally in Canada, China, Ireland, UK, Brazil, and India. Through our culture of innovation, we inspire, build, and deliver business results, from idea to outcome. We keep our clients on the cutting edge of the latest technologies and provide solutions by using industry-specific best practices and expertise.
We are excited to be continuously expanding our team. If you are interested in this position, please send over your updated resume. We look forward to hearing from you!
Job Title: Kubernetes Network Engineer
Location: Remote - India
Shift: 70% UK Time zone + May be 30% out of hours either early or late
Employment Type: Full-time / Contract
Role Overview/Job Responsibilities
Responsibilities:

• Work with the client to define infrastructure requirements to prepare tenants to support target applications which will be migrated on to Red Hat OpenShift/OpenStack and Wind River IaaS Platform from VMWare.
• Develop High- and Low-level designs for tenant designs along with the assigned internal Architect
• Work with Red Hat Virtualization (RHV) and container platforms (OpenShift/Kubernetes) team for cloud-native deployments
• Work with Windriver IaaS platform for cloud deployments
• Work with Cisco and Arista Networking setup to provision tenant networking.
• Ensure any infrastructure requirements demanded by the workloads are catered for by the infrastructure.
• Liaise with stakeholders and attend remote workshops with application owners and teams, and application vendors
• Liaise with the client operations teams to align on tenant design and build activities.
• Create methods of procedure to build out tenants to specification and ensure they are ready for use, following testing and acceptance criteria.
• Ensure alignment with automation framework for integration and zero touch provisioning at scale.

What we are looking for,

• Experience designing and building on-prem Kubernetes environments, preferably on Red Hat and Windriver platforms. Deep expertise of large-scale Kubernetes architecture
• Deep experience of Baremetal Kubernetes Networking, pod networking and a deep understanding of NAT (including source natting)
• Experience with Calico, Cilium, Multus, MetalLb and Istio
• Experience with DNS in virtualised environments
• Highly skilled with load balancing in a Kubernetes environment, and traffic routing and manipulation, understanding ingress and egress flows
• Knowledge of traffic policy and enforcement techniques
• Experience working in a Telco environment.
• Experience with SRIOV and DPDk are required.
• Troubleshooting with tcpdump, iptables, eBPF
• Expert in TCP/IP, VLANs, routing, and load balancing, knowledge of Cisco VXLAN (including NDFC) and Arista networking. Experience integrating clusters with network underlay.
• Experience building High- and Low-level design documents
• Collaborate and respect the needs of a wide range of stakeholders
• Have a flexible and 'can do' attitude with a strong sense of initiative with the ability to learn fast and deal calmly with situations under pressure
• Have strong organisation and planning skills to manage multiple tasks so that promises are delivered

Good to Have:

• Experience deploying Kubernetes on-prem.
• Experience with VMware (Vsphere / VSAN / NSX-T) and migrations / replatforming from VMWare into Redhat / Windriver
• For OpenShift, experience with their TNC reference architecture is a big plus
• For Storage, experience with Pure and Portworx is required.
• Experience directly in preparing OpenShift / OpenStack tenants ready for application onboarding
• Experience using Prometheus and Grafana for monitoring, and integrations required at atenant level
• Skilled in RHOSP, RHOSO, Satellite, Quay
• Experience directly of working with on-prem Redhat / Windriver Kubernetes platforms

MatchPoint Solutions provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

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