Kubernetes Engineer

Position Summary

ExeQut is hiring a Kubernetes Engineer / Administrator to design, deploy, and manage Kubernetes clusters across production and non-production environments ensuring high availability, security, and scalability for containerized workloads.

What You Will Do

• Design, deploy, configure, and manage Kubernetes clusters
• Manage resources including Pods, Deployments, Services, ConfigMaps, Secrets, Ingress, Namespaces, and Persistent Volumes
• Implement container orchestration using Kubernetes and Docker/container runtimes
• Monitor cluster health, performance, availability, and resource utilization
• Configure RBAC, network policies, security controls, and secrets management
• Manage cluster upgrades, patching, scaling, backup, and disaster recovery
• Troubleshoot application, networking, storage, and cluster-level issues
• Implement High Availability (HA) and scalability for Kubernetes workloads
• Integrate Kubernetes with CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, logging, and DevOps tools
• Automate infrastructure and deployments using Helm, Terraform, Ansible, or similar tools
• Work with cloud Kubernetes platforms such as OpenShift, AKS, EKS, or GKE where applicable

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Prometheus/Grafana, ELK, or similar monitoring/logging platforms

• Knowledge of CI/CD and DevOps practices

• Kubernetes certification such as CKA/CKAD

• 3 7+ years in infrastructure/DevOps with significant hands-on Kubernetes experience

• Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes administration and architecture

• Good knowledge of Linux, Docker/containers, networking, storage, and virtualization

• Experience with Helm and Kubernetes YAML manifests

• Knowledge of Kubernetes security, RBAC, networking, and troubleshooting

• Saudi Nationality required