Kubernetes Infrastructure Engineer

Immediate/Early Joiners Preferred We are hiring for our client seeking an experienced Kubernetes Infrastructure Specialist to design, automate, and optimize advanced container platforms and virtualization solutions in a high-tech environment. Key Responsibilities Design, create, automate, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for OS image creation on both bare-metal and virtual machines. Independently create and apply hypervisor templates. Automate infrastructure processes to minimize operational overhead. Manage and optimize container platform environments (test, acceptance, production) and 150+ downstream clusters. Enhance container platforms, edge computing, and virtualization solutions. Ensure platform security and compliance with best practices. Lead the transition from VMware OVAs to Kubernetes-based virtualization. Liaise with stakeholders for project approvals and compliance. Desired Profile 8+ years of hands-on experience in Kubernetes, IT infrastructure, and Linux-based systems. Proven expertise in: CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and OS image provisioning. Unattended provisioning of Kubernetes clusters across hypervisor/cloud. SUSE Rancher, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Linux (Ubuntu/SUSE), SUSE Longhorn, VMware vSphere. Infrastructure-as-Code tools (Terraform/Terragrunt, Ansible, GitOps). Virtualization technologies and Azure hosting platforms. Strong customer focus, proactive ownership, and ability to lead and act independently. Fluent business-level English communication. Experience in mature, enterprise environments with high responsibility. You may also share your resume with us at cv@refrelay.com Show more Show less