Mirantis: QA automation/Devops engineer for MKE4K

Headquarters: Barcelona, Spain URL: http://mirantis.com Company Description About Mirantis Mirantis is the Kubernetes-native AI infrastructure company, enabling organizations to build and operate scalable, secure, and sovereign infrastructure for modern AI, machine learning, and data-intensive applications

By combining open source innovation with deep expertise in Kubernetes orchestration, Mirantis empowers platform engineering teams to deliver composable, production-ready developer platforms across any environment—on-premises, in the cloud, at the edge, or in sovereign data centers

As enterprises navigate the growing complexity of AI-driven workloads, Mirantis delivers the automation, GPU orchestration, and policy-driven control needed to manage infrastructure with confidence and agility

Committed to open standards and freedom from lock-in, Mirantis ensures that customers retain full control of their infrastructure strategy

We serve global leaders including Adobe, PayPal, Liberty Mutual, Splunk, and Volkswagen

Learn more at www.mirantis.com

Job Description Mirantis Kubernetes Engine (MKE) 4k is an evolution of the industry-leading enterprise container platform, redesigned with open source k0s Kubernetes at the core and fully composable architecture to deliver the highest levels of security, stability, and performance for your specific use case and deployment requirements

Documentation - https://docs.mirantis.com/mke4k/latest/ Key Responsibilities Testing Strategy & Leadership Contribute to driving the overall QA strategy for Kubernetes and cloud-native environments, aligning quality goals with business objectives and release deadlines

Evaluate and champion best-in-class testing best practices and frameworks for distributed systems

Lead risk analysis and test planning for large-scale, multi-cloud infrastructure and container orchestration

Architecting Test Systems Architect test frameworks and infrastructure for validating microservices and infrastructure components in multi-cluster and hybrid-cloud environments

Oversee the design of complex test scenarios simulating production-like workloads, resource scaling, failure injection, and recovery across distributed clusters

Automation & Scalability Spearhead the development of scalable and maintainable test automation integrated with CI/CD (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, etc.)

Leverage Kubernetes APIs, Helm, and service mesh tools to build comprehensive automation coverage, including system health, failover behavior, and network resilience

Promote test infrastructure-as-code and drive IaC forward on the team making sure the infrastructure code is repeatable, extensible and reliable

Mentorship & Technical Influence Mentor QA engineers and developers in advanced testing techniques such as: risk-based testing, chaos engineering, performance and load testing etc

Serve as the QA authority in design reviews, production readiness assessments, and incident retrospectives(escaped defects)

Collaborate with and devops engineers to refine monitoring, alerting, and debugging strategies for testing automation being run in CI/CD

Quality Advocacy & Continuous Improvement Establish quality gates, release readiness metrics, and data driven feedback loops to ensure released software is production quality

Drive initiatives to integrate performance, security, and chaos testing into the development lifecycle

Advocate for a culture of quality across teams and influence architecture decisions with testing in mind

Qualifications Education Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field

Experience 10+ years in software testing or quality engineering roles, with 4+ years focused on Kubernetes, cloud-native applications, and distributed systems

Proven leadership experience in building and scaling test strategies in enterprise-grade environments

Technical Proficiency Deep understanding of Kubernetes internals, cluster lifecycle management, Helm, service meshes (e.g., Istio or Linkerd), and network policies

Strong scripting and automation capabilities (Python, Pytest, Bash, etc.)

Familiarity with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger), Kubernetes security (RBAC, secrets management), and performance benchmarking tools (e.g., K6)

Solid grounding in cloud architecture (AWS, Azure, GCP), infrastructure provisioning, and containerized CI/CD

Moderate to advanced linux knowledge and proficiency is required: Bash scripting and debugging, systemd/logs, networking/firewalling/routing, certificate/PKI management, containers (Docker/containerd), and Kubernetes tooling (kubectl/Helm with OCI registries, GitOps/Flux) to install, test, and troubleshoot multi-cluster environments

Leadership & Collaboration Exceptional problem-solving and architectural thinking

Experience influencing cross-functional teams and senior leadership

Excellent verbal and written communication skills for technical and executive-level audiences

Mentorship and coaching of 1 or more junior members on the team especially around testing fundamentals, troubleshooting and automation

Preferred Extras Contributions to open-source Kubernetes or QA tooling projects

Experience implementing chaos engineering in Kubernetes environments

Certifications such as CKA, CKAD, or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer

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