Platform Administrator - Kubernetes (Remote)

Core responsibilities:

• Participate in the day-to-day administration of a family of on-premise Kubernetes clusters, and the services provisioned on those clusters to support scientific workflows in a production environment.
• Design and implement administration workflows to handle cluster upgrades and maintenance, user application deployment and incident response.
• Work with operations and applications teams at ALCF to integrate this infrastructure into the facility ecosystem.

This role supports the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility's mission to enable large-scale scientific discovery by managing Kubernetes infrastructure that hosts persistent services and cloud-like orchestration capabilities for scientific workflows.

Required skills, knowledge, and experience:

• Bachelor's degree and 4+ years of experience, or Master's and 2+ years of experience, or equivalent
• Experience with Linux containerization technologies and fundamentals including Linux Namespaces/cGroups, OCI Image formats, and contemporary container runtimes
• Experience in deploying and administering on-premise Kubernetes clusters with knowledge of Kubernetes networking
• Experience with GitOps methodologies and declarative infrastructure-as-code technologies including ArgoCD, kustomize, helm, secrets-management, CI/CD

Expected hiring range: $86,299.00 - $134,626.05. Comprehensive benefits are part of the total rewards package including healthcare insurance. Argonne National Laboratory is committed to a safe and welcoming workplace that fosters collaborative scientific discovery and innovation.

Argonne National Laboratory's Argonne Leadership Computing Facility houses and maintains a collection of the world's fastest supercomputers as part of its mission to enable large-scale scientific discovery.