Job Description & Summary
The Enterprise Kubernetes and Cloud Solutions Operations Lead Senior Manager will focus on operating and leading a team of operations professionals for all services owned by the Container Management and Security pillar of the NextGen Cloud program. Containers as a Service (CaaS) and Clusters as a Service (CLaaS) are the two core services the pillar currently provides, with additional services coming in the future. These services are supported and managed by many technologies that have been woven together to form enterprise services for consumption by the entirety of the PwC Network of Firms.
At least 3 years of experience in an operations role
At least 3 years of experience managing others
Excellent communication skills
Understanding and implementing key metrics of success for operating services in an enterprise
Understanding of Kubernetes, Docker, container images, and container security;
Understanding of cloud-native concepts and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Landscape;
Understanding of at least one cloud provider and its underlying container services;
Amazon Web Services
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS)
AWS Fargate
Microsoft Azure
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
App Service
Container Instances
Google Cloud
Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
Cloud Run
Working knowledge of at least one Kubernetes distribution;
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
Rancher / Rancher Kubernetes Engine (RKE) / K3s
Red Hat OpenShift
VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG)
Mirantis Kubernetes Engine
Nutanix Karbon
Rafay
Working knowledge of at least one service mesh technology;
Istio
Linkerd
Kong Mesh / Kong Kuma
HashiCorp Consul Connect
AWS App Mesh
OpenShift Service Mesh (Red Hat)
Open Service Mesh (OSM)
Demonstrating Familiarity with at least one Kubernetes security tool;
Aqua Platform / Container Security / Kubernetes Security / Dynamic Threat Analysis
Prisma Compute (previously Twistlock)
Qualys Container Security
Snyk Cloud Native Application Security (CNAS)
StackRox Kubernetes Security Platform
Sysdig Secure
Demonstrating Familiarity with at least one container image scanning tool;
Anchore
Aqua Security / Trivy
Clair
Dagda
Falco
JFrog Xray
Qualys Container Security
Snyk Container
Working knowledge of at least one container registry;
Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR)
Azure Container Registry (ACR)
GitLab Container Registry
Google Cloud Container Registry
Harbor
JFrog Container Registry
Possessing Intimate understanding of the typical Kubernetes resources and how to create manifests defining them;
ConfigMap
DaemonSet
Deployment
Ingress
PersistentVolume (PV)
PersistentVolumeClaim (PVC)
Pod
ReplicaSet
Secret
Service
StatefulSet
Working knowledge of at least one Container Network Interface (CNI) driver;
Amazon VPC CNI
Azure CNI
Calico
Canal
Cilium
Flannel
GKE CNI
Weave
Working knowledge of at least one Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver;
AWS Elastic Block Storage (EBS)
AWS Elastic File System (EFS)
AWS FSx for Lustre (FSX)
Azure Disk
Azure File
CephFS
Ceph RBD
GCE Persistent Disk
Google Cloud Filestore
Google Cloud Storage
GlusterFS
Longhorn
Minio
NetApp
Nutanix
OpenEBS
Portworx
Pure Storage CSI
Scaleway CSI
vSphere
Demonstrating Intimate understanding of cloud networking concepts, including best-practices networking models and security;
Understanding of microservice architecture and best practices;
Working knowledge of creating a Dockerfile to build an OCI-compliant Docker / container image;
Demonstrating the Ability to automate processes using Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) tools;
Airflow
Argo CD
AWS CodePipeline
Azure DevOps
CircleCI
Codefresh
Concourse
Flux CD / Flagger
GitHub Actions
GitLab
Harness
Jenkins / Jenkins X
Spinnaker
Tekton
Travis CI
Understanding of observability in Kubernetes using three or more tools from the following list
Prometheus
Grafana
Alertmanager
Elasticsearch
Fluentd / Fluent Bit
Kibana
AppDynamics
Datadog
Dynatrace
New Relic One
Splunk
Sumo Logic
Working knowledge of all the following command line interface (CLI) tools;
git
helm
kubectl
Possessing expert working knowledge of YAML syntax;
Possessing Intimate diagramming skills using one or more of the following tools;
Coggle
Creately
draw.io / diagrams.net
Lucidchart
Microsoft Visio
Miro
OmniGraffle
Demonstrating the ability to empathize with customers and respectfully engage stakeholders to align on goals, business objectives, timelines, and execution plan;
Working knowledge of the following;
Python
Golang / Go
Bash
HashiCorp Terraform / HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL)
Kubernetes Operators
HashiCorp Vault
Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA)
Blue/green deployments, canary deployments
Automated testing (ex: unit testing, integration testing, smoke testing)
Experiencing working in a highly-regulated, highly-secure industry;
SOC2
Information Security Policy (ISP) Controls
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS)
Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)
Overseeing operations of leading-edge enterprise solutions using cloud-native technologies and security best practices to deliver business value for internal customers at PwC;
Collaborating with internal customers at PwC to gather business and technical requirements;
Collaborating with various NextGen Cloud workstreams to create comprehensive enterprise solutions;
Providing wisdom and direction to team members to accelerate the teamβs throughput and improve the quality of deliverables;
Leading operations workshops; and,
Creating security standards and working with relevant teams to enforce those standards
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