IT Infrastructure Engineer V - Cloud Kubernetes Developer

Job Summary:
About the Team
The Container Platform and Adoption Services team at Kaiser Permanente (KP) accelerates enterprise application modernization by enabling tenants to adopt container platforms such as Open Shift (on-prem) and Azure AKS (cloud). We partner with application teams across the enterprise to containerize workloads, design cloud-native deployment patterns, and implement automation for CI/CD, high availability, and failover.
Our mission is to simplify the developer experience, reduce onboarding friction, and ensure enterprise applications are production-ready with best-in-class resiliency, security, and compliance. The team also provides L3 engineering support and leads offshore engineers delivering platform enhancements and operational improvements.
Role Summary
The Cloud Developer (Cloud Native Application Developer) plays a hybrid technical-lead role at the intersection of Dev Ops and platform engineering. The developer will be hands-on in designing and implementing platform feature enhancements, onboarding automation, and container adoption solutions while also leading offshore engineers to deliver high-quality platform capabilities.
This role requires flexibility to collaborate across time zones (overlapping IST) and participation in 247 on-call rotations for production escalation support.

The right candidate will thrive in a dynamic environment that balances technical design, implementation, mentorship, and operational excellence.
Responsibilities

• Partner with tenant application teams to analyze existing monolithic workloads and guide them through refactoring and migration to container platforms.
• Design and implement Dockerfiles, Kubernetes/Open Shift manifests, Helm/Kustomize configurations, and CI/CD pipelines (Git Hub Actions, ArgoCD).
• Enhance and maintain platform capabilities by enabling new Kubernetes features and improving container platform adoption and onboarding efficiency.
• Develop and integrate CI/CD workflows and Git Ops automation across multiple tool chains and environments.
• Provide technical guidance on resiliency, scalability, HA, and failover design for both stateless and stateful applications.
• Support S3 Object Store and Operator-based workload onboarding, automation, and lifecycle management.
• Lead and mentor offshore engineers, ensuring delivery of platform enhancements, adherence to standards, and quality engineering practices.
• Provide L3 engineering support-including troubleshooting complex production issues, root cause analysis, and performance optimization.
• Collaborate with Platform Engineering, SRE, and Security teams to ensure all solutions meet compliance, monitoring, and operational readiness standards.
• Participate in 247 on-call rotations for production support escalations and incident response.
• Drive continuous improvement through documentation, reusable frameworks, and automation of onboarding processes.

This senior level employee is primarily responsible for providing expert technical advice on IT infrastructure for assigned systems, setting the technical direction for infrastructure solutions, and for serving as a technical expert for project teams while mentoring and advising others in all system development lifecycle phases.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Conducts or oversees business-specific projects by applying deep expertise in subject area; promoting adherence to all procedures and policies; developing work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines; determining and carrying out processes and methodologies; coordinating and delegating resources to accomplish organizational goals; partnering internally and externally to make effective business decisions; solving complex problems; escalating issues or risks, as appropriate;
  
  monitoring progress and results; recognizing and capitalizing on improvement opportunities; evaluating recommendations made; and influencing the completion of project tasks by others.
• Practices self-leadership and promotes learning in others by building relationships with cross-functional stakeholders; communicating information and providing advice to drive projects forward; influencing team members within assigned unit;…