Staff DevOps Engineer

About the role

Nextiva is seeking a Staff DevOps Engineer to lead the design and evolution of their platform engineering practice with a focus on Kubernetes infrastructure. This individual-contributor role involves defining architecture, standards, and paved roads to help engineering teams build, deploy, and operate software efficiently. The successful candidate will support a globally available microservices architecture while addressing the infrastructure needs of AI/ML workloads.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture and roadmap for the multi-cluster Kubernetes platform, including scaling, upgrades, and multi-tenancy.
• Establish GitOps-based deployment workflows using technologies such as Argo CD or Flux.
• Design and evolve an internal developer platform that provides engineering teams with self-service access to compute, environments, and observability.
• Architect service mesh, networking, and ingress strategies for reliable and secure communication across services.
• Define platform standards for GPU and ML workload scheduling and resource management on Kubernetes.
• Partner with AI/ML teams on infrastructure requirements for training and inference workloads.
• Drive capacity planning and cost optimization across Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure.
• Define and own platform reliability through SLOs, incident-response leadership, and postmortems.

Required skills

• Kubernetes
• AWS
• Google Cloud Platform
• GitOps
• Argo CD
• Flux
• Terraform
• Pulumi
• Container orchestration
• Service mesh
• Linux
• Observability
• Prometheus
• Grafana
• Datadog

Nice to have

• Istio
• Linkerd
• Cilium
• Nginx
• Kafka
• Redis
• OPA
• Gatekeeper
• Kyverno

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field
• Equivalent practical experience

Certifications

• AWS
• GCP
• Azure
• CKA
• CKS

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Vision coverage
• Dental coverage
• Life Insurance
• Personal days
• Vacation days
• Christmas bonus
• Vacation premium
• Food vouchers
• Savings fund

About the Company

Founded in 2008, Nextiva is a global leader in customer experience and team collaboration through its AI-powered, conversation-centric platform. The company serves over 100,000 businesses and 1 million users worldwide.