Highlights
Diagnose failures involving etcd, API services, kubelet, CNI, CSI, ingress, DNS, image pulls, scheduling, autoscaling, pod eviction, and degraded node states. Success is demonstrated by reliable workload placement, completed readiness checks, effective tenant isolation, and resolution of recurring platform faults.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | San Jose, CA |
| Industry | Computer Software |
| Company Size | 20 to 49 employees |
| Year Founded | 2014 |
| Website | http://www.tekfortune.com/ |
Description
| Job Title: | AI Kubernetes Platform Engineer |
| Location: | Bay Area, CA [ONSITE] |
Job Description:
The engineer will build, administer, and troubleshoot Kubernetes platforms supporting model
development, distributed training, inference, and shared AI services. The role requires deep cluster
administration skills and practical experience with GPU workloads in bare-metal or data center
environments, with responsibility for cluster lifecycle, tenant readiness, and platform reliability.
Key responsibilities-
- Provision and maintain Kubernetes clusters, including control plane services, worker nodes, container
- runtimes, configuration baselines, and cluster lifecycle automation.
- Diagnose failures involving etcd, API services, kubelet, CNI, CSI, ingress, DNS, image pulls,
- scheduling, autoscaling, pod eviction, and degraded node states.
- Configure and troubleshoot NVIDIA GPU Operator, GPU device plugins, driver and runtime
- dependencies, GPU resource discovery, and workload placement.
- Implement tenant namespaces, quotas, role-based access controls, network policies, secrets
- integration, and appropriate workload isolation and GPU sharing policies.
- Integrate storage and networking for AI workloads. Investigate throughput, mount, connectivity, and
- resource-contention problems with Linux, storage, and fabric teams.
- Automate platform deployment and configuration with infrastructure as code, Helm, and GitOps. Plan
- upgrades with compatibility checks, validation tests, backups, and rollback procedures.
- Build platform health checks and dashboards using metrics, logs, events, and GPU telemetry.
- Validate clusters with representative workloads before production handover and after changes.
- Maintain day-2 runbooks, capacity guidance, and escalation criteria. Work with SRE and validation
- teams on service objectives, resilience, and recurring failure prevention.
- 7+ years in infrastructure engineering, including deep hands-on Kubernetes administration and
- cluster troubleshooting experience.
- Strong knowledge of Kubernetes internals, control plane operation, node lifecycle, scheduling,
- container runtimes, and resource isolation.
- Experience supporting GPU workloads on Kubernetes in production, laboratory, or validation
- environments, including device plugin and driver dependencies.
- Strong Linux administration and practical understanding of network, DNS, storage, and authentication
- dependencies in data center environments.
- Hands-on experience with Helm, GitOps or declarative operations, configuration management, and
- automated cluster provisioning or upgrades.
- Python, Bash, or Go scripting skills and the ability to trace failures across node, pod, network,
- storage, and control plane layers.
- Preferred experience
- Experience with bare-metal Kubernetes, Kubeflow, Argo, service meshes, and high-performance
- storage integration.
- Familiarity with Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, NVIDIA DCGM, GPU sharing, and Multi-Instance GPU
- where supported.
- Experience with platform hardening, controlled production changes, disaster recovery exercises, and
- multi-tenant AI environments.
- Preferred: Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) and NVIDIA-Certified Professional AI Infrastructure
- (NCP-AII). Security specialization: Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS). Additional operations
- credential: NVIDIA-Certified Professional AI Operations (NCP-AIO). Foundational: NCA-AIIO.
- Certifications are preferred credentials. Candidates should demonstrate the corresponding skills
- through practical delivery and troubleshooting experience.
Deliver reproducible cluster configurations, validated GPU enablement, documented upgrade and recovery procedures, and operational dashboards. Success is demonstrated by reliable workload placement, completed readiness checks, effective tenant isolation, and resolution of recurring platform faults.
About Company
Tekfortune is a software solutions company providing project development and staff augmentation services to companies in various industries including Healthcare, Banking, Finance, Telecommunication and Aviation.
Tekfortune Inc delivers solutions to a wide variety of organizations of various sizes and industries. Our clients include mid-market to Fortune 1000 companies spanning across industries such as: Insurance, Financial, Pharmaceutical, Manufacturing, Retail and many others.
In Tekfortune Inc, we are offering selection of services and solutions at very reasonable rates. With years of experience in the placement and recruitment Industry and over time we have acquired the knowledge essential to comprehend the exact need and dependence on customers. Therefore we provide the customers the best and also the brightest candidates for vacancies. Moreover, by understanding the working interest of customers who is able to place them within the companies where they are able to get maximum opportunity for professional growth.
Tekfortune Inc has a strong emphasis on quality. Its goal would be to achieve client satisfaction by looking into making deliveries satisfaction of customer's business needs. Our ability to quickly identify and effectively employ proven fundamental principles, techniques and resources yields highly desirable results for our clients.
We understand that each industry and organization share a level of uniqueness that requires a tailored approach in order to deliver specific solutions. Such factors as client culture, industry regulations, organizational maturity, financial health and many more items may impact our approach to delivering client solutions.
Having served a wide variety of clients has provided Tekfortune the ability to build subject matter expertise across numerous industries. Our industry expertise combined with our specialized knowledge of Business Process Improvement, Requirements Management and Program & Project Management provides a powerful combination and a tremendous value to our clients.
We are run by a group of industry experts who have decades of experience in delivering custom solutions to our clients.
Tekfortune Inc delivers solutions to a wide variety of organizations of various sizes and industries. Our clients include mid-market to Fortune 1000 companies spanning across industries such as: Insurance, Financial, Pharmaceutical, Manufacturing, Retail and many others.
In Tekfortune Inc, we are offering selection of services and solutions at very reasonable rates. With years of experience in the placement and recruitment Industry and over time we have acquired the knowledge essential to comprehend the exact need and dependence on customers. Therefore we provide the customers the best and also the brightest candidates for vacancies. Moreover, by understanding the working interest of customers who is able to place them within the companies where they are able to get maximum opportunity for professional growth.
Tekfortune Inc has a strong emphasis on quality. Its goal would be to achieve client satisfaction by looking into making deliveries satisfaction of customer's business needs. Our ability to quickly identify and effectively employ proven fundamental principles, techniques and resources yields highly desirable results for our clients.
We understand that each industry and organization share a level of uniqueness that requires a tailored approach in order to deliver specific solutions. Such factors as client culture, industry regulations, organizational maturity, financial health and many more items may impact our approach to delivering client solutions.
Having served a wide variety of clients has provided Tekfortune the ability to build subject matter expertise across numerous industries. Our industry expertise combined with our specialized knowledge of Business Process Improvement, Requirements Management and Program & Project Management provides a powerful combination and a tremendous value to our clients.
We are run by a group of industry experts who have decades of experience in delivering custom solutions to our clients.