Skills

Plans and executes GKE cluster creation, provisioning, and production readiness audits using pre-defined templates (Autopilot, Standard Regional, GPU/AI…

Configures, optimizes, and troubleshoots GKE ComputeClasses.

Answer natural language questions and perform analysis on GKE cluster and workload costs using BigQuery billing exports, cost allocation data, and live…

Optimizes GKE costs, rightsizes workloads, and configures Spot VMs, CUDs, cost allocation, and resource quotas.

Discovers golden base images for creating GKE custom node images based on technical specifications or context clues.

Provides GKE golden path configuration defaults, production readiness checklists, and cluster default patterns.

Deploys and optimizes AI/ML inference workloads on GKE, using GPUs, TPUs, and model servers.

Generates and updates secure, production-ready Kubernetes YAML manifests optimized for GKE Autopilot and GKE Standard clusters.

Plans and configures multi-tenancy on GKE.

Plans, configures, and manages core GKE cluster networking.

Diagnoses GKE nodes reporting NotReady or Unknown status by inspecting node conditions, events, kubelet/containerd logs, and node metrics, then proposing safe…

Configures GKE observability, including Cloud Logging, Cloud Monitoring, and managed Prometheus.

Plans, configures, and hardens platform-level Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster security.

Orchestrates comprehensive production readiness reviews and assessments for GKE clusters and workloads across scalability, security, reliability…

Improves GKE workload reliability, using PDBs, health probes, and topology spread constraints.

Configures GKE edge networking, traffic routing, load balancing, and private service endpoints.

Manages GKE storage, including PVCs, PersistentVolumes, and Filestore.

Diagnoses GKE persistent-storage failures — volume attach/mount errors (Regional PD on optimized VMs, fsGroup mount timeouts), disk-performance and node…

Plans, executes, and validates Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster upgrades and maintenance operations for both Standard and Autopilot clusters.

Configures and diagnoses Workload Identity Federation for GKE authentication failures for Pods (403 "iam.serviceAccounts.getAccessToken" / permission denied…

Manages scaling for GKE workloads using HPA and VPA.

Diagnoses GKE HorizontalPodAutoscaler (HPA) failures — metrics showing as <unknown>, FailedGetResourceMetric / FailedGetScale / FailedComputeMetricsReplicas…

Audits, configures, and hardens workload-level security controls for Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) applications and namespaces.

Diagnoses GKE workload failures (CrashLoopBackOff, OOMKilled, ImagePullBackOff, Pending, etc.) via logs and events.