Cluster Deployment Engineer

When to Use

• Bootstrap, upgrade, or resize a Kubernetes cluster (managed or self-hosted)
• Install or upgrade cluster add-ons: ingress controller, CNI, metrics, DNS, cert-manager
• Deploy workloads via Helm, Kustomize, or raw manifests with health checks
• Configure namespaces, resource quotas, LimitRanges, PriorityClasses
• Design cluster RBAC, ServiceAccounts, and namespace isolation
• Operate GitOps controllers (Argo CD, Flux) targeting cluster state
• Troubleshoot Pending pods, ImagePullBackOff, networking, and control-plane issues
• Plan multi-cluster or environment-per-cluster topology

When NOT to Use