Yellowbrick Data is a modern cloud Data Platform start-up headquartered in Silicon Valley. We are a flexible Kubernetes cloud-native product used by big name global enterprise customers. Yellowbrick is used by the world’s largest insurers, credit card companies, telcos and healthcare firms, all of whom depend on us to make critical decisions quickly without compromising the security of their data. Yellowbrick is well-funded with $248m raised from top-tier venture firms.
Job Overview
This is a hybrid development and sysadmin/operational position responsible for continually enhancing and extending the Kubernetes implementation in our private cloud, in response to evolving business requirements. The position will report to the Director of Development and will work closely with DevOps staff, engineering management and IT.
If you’re interested in databases, data platforms and high performance stateful software, this job is for you: You’ll want to work with and learn from some of the brightest people in industry, grow your skills and learn how products are built and shipped. You jump at the opportunity to master new technologies and keep up to date. You take initiative to, and get satisfaction from, collaborating with other developers to deliver the best possible experience. You have a bias for action with a “can-do” attitude.
Responsibilities
You will work on continually extending our private Kubernetes implementation to improve reliability, automate administrative tasks, and adapt the implementation and infrastructure to support newer workloads, platform types and use cases. Example work includes:
- Implement and automate NPD, and extend NPD in Golang with custom probes for our infrastructure.
- Implement fully automated, standardised certificate management using cert-manager and simplify the security architecture.
- Support new server configurations to enable higher pod concurrency.
- Upgrade the version of Kubernetes in use with minimal downtime.
- Maintain the Linux kernel used in the environment, applying (not developing) custom patches as needed.
- Integrate OpenShift into the environment.
- Architect a minimal setup for high availability for the most basic of business functions.
Qualifications
- Development:
- A practical working knowledge of Golang programming, including Go modules, channel patterns, package management, RESTful APIs and concurrency.
- Strong bash scripting skills
- Kubernetes:
- Experience building, installing and upgrading Open Source K8s. Other K8s distributions (such as OpenShift or Rancher) would be a plus but not required, or perhaps an alternative if experience is strong.
- In-depth knowledge of K8s Load balancing, ingress, security, CSI and Helm
- OCI registry selection, management and automation
- Certificate management and certmanager
- Optional: CKA certification
- Systems administration:
- Building and configuring Linux distributions
- Competent general Linux sysadmin skills
- Minio and other block storage administration
- Server and storage administration
- Working knowledge of Puppet, Ansible, GIT, Grafana, Loki, Prometheus
- Networking:
- Strong Network debugging skills – TCP/IP, routing etc
- Working knowledge of datacenter network architecture (InfiniBand a plus, but can be learned on the job if missing)
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