# Kubernetes Engineer

**Company**: Cisco
**Location**: Galway
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Cisco's Webex Engineering Group is redefining the future of collaboration. We're building a world where people connect effortlessly to enjoy modern, uncompromised collaboration across every room, desk, pocket, and application.

As a Kubernetes Engineer, you will lead the design, codification, testing, and delivery of Kubernetes-based microservices configurations using Kubernetes, Helm. You will drive operational excellence in a GitOps model using Argo CD, implement progressive delivery, and manage secure secrets via HashiCorp Vault and Kubernetes Secrets.

Responsibilities:

- Lead the design, codification, testing, and delivery of Kubernetes-based microservices configurations

- Drive operational excellence in a GitOps model using Argo CD

- Implement progressive delivery and manage secure secrets

- Use AI-assisted tools to accelerate development, validation, and optimization of configuration-as-code

- Address complex challenges across configuration, policy, observability, and data services

- Own end-to-end configuration quality, enforcing governance with Open Policy Agent

- Advance a self-service platform using Backstage and Argo CD

Minimum Qualifications:

- Bachelor's or higher degree in an analytical subject (e.g. Computer Science, Electronic/Software Engineering)

- 7+ Years demonstrated experience in software development

- Extensive architecture and programming experience and the willingness to learn new technologies quickly

- Ability to apply and lead a scientific approach and creative skills to complex problems

- Flexible, thrives in diverse team environments, and communicates clearly and precisely

- Strong attention to detail and a commitment to continuous learning and quality results

Preferred Qualifications:

- Strong Kubernetes + microservices experience

- Hands-on with Helm or Kustomize

- Experience with GitOps (e.g., Argo CD)

- Knowledge of secrets management (e.g., HashiCorp Vault)

- Experience with observability (metrics/logs/tracing)

- Familiarity with policy enforcement via Open Policy Agent

## Skills

### Required
- Kubernetes
- Helm
- Argo CD
- HashiCorp Vault
- GitOps

### Nice to have
- microservices
- Kustomize
- secrets management
- observability
- policy enforcement

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