Domain
Cloud & Infrastructure
Skill Profile
This skill defines expectations across roles and levels.
Roles
2
where this skill appears
Levels
5
structured growth path
Mandatory requirements
0
the other 10 optional
Cloud & Infrastructure
Kubernetes & Orchestration
2/22/2026
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| Role | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Blockchain Developer | Understands the fundamentals of Kubernetes Orchestration. Applies basic practices in daily work. Follows recommendations from the team and documentation. | |
| LLM Engineer | Knows Kubernetes basics: pods, services, deployments. Understands how to deploy LLM inference server in K8s and basic resource request concepts for GPU workloads. |
| Role | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Blockchain Developer | Configures Kubernetes for blockchain infrastructure: StatefulSets for nodes with persistent storage, ConfigMaps for chain config. Implements health checks and automatic restart on failures. | |
| LLM Engineer | Independently deploys LLM services in Kubernetes: configures GPU resource limits, node affinity for GPU nodes, HPA for inference autoscaling. Uses Helm charts for ML workloads. |
| Role | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Blockchain Developer | Designs Kubernetes architecture for production blockchain infrastructure: multi-region deployment, automated failover, rolling node upgrades. Optimizes resource allocation for validator nodes. | |
| LLM Engineer | Designs Kubernetes infrastructure for LLM platforms: multi-GPU scheduling, model serving with KServe/Triton, distributed training jobs with Kubeflow. Optimizes GPU utilization across the cluster. |
| Role | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Blockchain Developer | Defines Kubernetes strategy for the blockchain organization. Establishes platform team and deployment standards. Coordinates migration to Kubernetes for entire blockchain infrastructure. | |
| LLM Engineer | Defines Kubernetes strategy for team LLM infrastructure. Establishes ML workload deployment standards, GPU scheduling policies, inference service monitoring and autoscaling. |
| Role | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Blockchain Developer | Defines enterprise orchestration strategy for the blockchain platform. Evaluates Kubernetes vs Nomad vs bare-metal for various blockchain workloads. Shapes platform engineering vision. | |
| LLM Engineer | Shapes enterprise Kubernetes ML platform strategy. Defines approaches to multi-cluster GPU management, cost optimization, and SLA for inference services at organizational scale. |