Skill Profile

Kubernetes Orchestration

This skill defines expectations across roles and levels.

Cloud & Infrastructure Kubernetes & Orchestration

Roles

2

where this skill appears

Levels

5

structured growth path

Mandatory requirements

0

the other 10 optional

Domain

Cloud & Infrastructure

Group

Kubernetes & Orchestration

Last updated

2/22/2026

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What is Expected at Each Level

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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.

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