QA Automation/devops Engineer for Mke4k

**Company Description** About Mirantis**

**Job Description** Key Responsibilities**

**Testing Strategy & Leadership**
- Contribute to driving the overall QA strategy for Kubernetes and cloud-native environments, aligning quality goals with business objectives and release deadlines.
- Evaluate and champion best-in-class testing best practices and frameworks for distributed systems.
- Lead risk analysis and test planning for large-scale, multi-cloud infrastructure and container orchestration.

**Architecting Test Systems**
- Architect test frameworks and infrastructure for validating microservices and infrastructure components in multi-cluster and hybrid-cloud environments.
- Oversee the design of complex test scenarios simulating production-like workloads, resource scaling, failure injection, and recovery across distributed clusters.

**Automation & Scalability**
- Spearhead the development of scalable and maintainable test automation integrated with CI/CD (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, etc.).
- Leverage Kubernetes APIs, Helm, and service mesh tools to build comprehensive automation coverage, including system health, failover behavior, and network resilience.
- Promote test infrastructure-as-code and drive IaC forward on the team making sure the infrastructure code is repeatable, extensible and reliable.

**Mentorship & Technical Influence**
- Mentor QA engineers and developers in advanced testing techniques such as: risk-based testing, chaos engineering, performance and load testing etc.
- Serve as the QA authority in design reviews, production readiness assessments, and incident retrospectives(escaped defects).
- Collaborate with and devops engineers to refine monitoring, alerting, and debugging strategies for testing automation being run in CI/CD.

**Quality Advocacy & Continuous Improvement**
- Establish quality gates, release readiness metrics, and data driven feedback loops to ensure released software is production quality.
- Drive initiatives to integrate performance, security, and chaos testing into the development lifecycle.
- Advocate for a culture of quality across teams and influence architecture decisions with testing in mind.

**Qualifications** Education**
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

**Experience**
- Proven leadership experience in building and scaling test strategies in enterprise-grade environments.

**Technical Proficiency**
- Deep understanding of Kubernetes internals, cluster lifecycle management, Helm, service meshes (e.g., Istio or Linkerd), and network policies.
- Strong scripting and automation capabilities (Python, Pytest, Bash, etc.).
- Familiarity with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger), Kubernetes security (RBAC, secrets management), and performance benchmarking tools (e.g., K6).
- Solid grounding in cloud architecture (AWS, Azure, GCP), infrastructure provisioning, and containerized CI/CD.
- Moderate to advanced linux knowledge and proficiency is required: Bash scripting and debugging, systemd/logs, networking/firewalling/routing, certificate/PKI management, containers (Docker/containerd), and Kubernetes tooling (kubectl/Helm with OCI registries, GitOps/Flux) to install, test, and troubleshoot multi-cluster environments.

**Leadership & Collaboration**
- Exceptional problem-solving and architectural thinking.
- Experience influencing cross-functional teams and senior leadership.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills for technical and executive-level audiences.
- Mentorship and coaching of 1 or more junior members on the team especially around testing fundamentals, troubleshooting and automation.

**Preferred Extras**
- Contributions to open-source Kubernetes or QA tooling projects.
- Experience implementing chaos engineering in Kubernetes environments.
- Certifications such as CKA, CKAD, or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer.

**Additional Information**
**What does Mirantis offer you?**
- Work with an established Silicon Valley leader in the cloud infrastructure industry;
- Work with exceptionally passionate, talented and engaging colleagues, helping Fortune 500 and Global 2000 customers implement next-generation cloud technologies;
- Be a part of cutting-edge, open-source innovation;
- Thrive in the high-energy environment of a young company where openness, collaboration, risk-taking, and continuous growth are valued;
- Professional development and training;
- Attend conferences and working groups;
- Company outings, happy hours, hackathons, and tech talks;
- Receive a competitive compensation package with a strong benefits plan.

We are a Leader for Container Management in G2 (#2 after AWS)

We are a Leader for Container Management in G2 (#2 after AWS)