Validation & Performance Automation Engineer (RARR Job 5418)

Core Responsibilities:

• Design & implement GitOps-compliant pipelines for validation across hardware, OS, Kubernetes, and platform layers.

• Integrate Sonobuoy for Kubernetes conformance testing.

• Orchestrate chaos engineering workflows via LitmusChaos for resilience testing.

• Implement performance tests with k6 and system benchmarks in CI/CD.

• Develop/maintain end-to-end test frameworks (pytest / Go) for cluster lifecycle, upgrades, and GPU workloads.

• Ensure test coverage: conformance, performance, fault injection, post-upgrade checks.

• Build dashboards/reports for test results, compliance, and drift detection.

• Collaborate with Infra, SRE, and platform teams to embed validation early in deployments.

• Own QA gates for all automation-driven releases.

Required Skills:

• Mandatory: Ansible, Terraform, Puppet, Chef, Shell/PowerShell/Python scripting

• Core: pytest, Go, k6, Sonobuoy, LitmusChaos, CI/CD (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins)

• Kubernetes architecture & upgrade expertise

• GitOps (ArgoCD, Flux)

• Infra validation (GPU drivers, kernel modules, CNI, CRI)

• Debugging, RCA, incident analysis skills

• GPU infra knowledge (plus point)