• Sr. Consultant: Kubernetes Operator & Developer

    Insight Global (Raleigh, NC)


    Job Description

    A client of Insight Global is seeking an experienced engineer to design and implement a performance-critical Kubernetes Operator. This operator is essential for managing large clusters and must integrate seamlessly with GitOps/Flux-managed resources. The project requires a strong focus on using Go (Golang), leveraging the Kubernetes controller-runtime and Operator SDK to ensure deep integration with Kubernetes internals and support for future enhancements.

     

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    Skills and Requirements

     

    Go (Golang): Proven ability to write high-performance, concurrent, and thread-safe applications.

     

    Kubernetes Operator Development: Direct experience building, testing, and deploying custom controllers/operators using industry-standard frameworks such as Operator SDK or controller-runtime (Kubebuilder).

    Kubernetes API: Strong understanding of Kubernetes internals, including:

    Interacting with core resources like Deployments and StatefulSets (e.g., patching spec.replicas)

     

    Designing and implementing Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs) to manage the desired scale state.

     

    RESTful API (Go): Ability to build secure, robust, and high-volume HTTP/REST services in Go.

     

    Concurrency and Queuing: Experience handling concurrent HTTP requests efficiently, specifically decoupling high-speed HTTP ingestion from slower, rate-limited Kubernetes API updates.

     

    Monitoring/Observability: Experience exposing metrics (e.g., Prometheus/OpenMetrics) from the operator to track request load, API latency, and reconciliation times.

     

    Security: Experience implementing API authentication and authorization (e.g., API keys, mTLS, or OIDC).

     

    GitOps (FluxCD/ArgoCD) Awareness: Understanding of how GitOps tools like FluxCD (specifically HelmRelease objects) perform reconciliation.

     

    GitOps Override Strategy: Practical experience implementing techniques to prevent GitOps reconciliation from immediately reverting the operator's scale changes. This includes strategic patching, managing Field Managers, or using specific annotations (e.g., kustomize.toolkit.fluxcd.io/prune: disabled). OpenShift/Kubernetes experience with developing and deploying Operators in Go