Perhaps consider applying to one of the companies building ecosystem tooling around Kubernetes or other schedulers? Your at-scale operational knowledge will be

Perhaps consider applying to one of the companies building ecosystem tooling around Kubernetes or other schedulers? Your at-scale operational knowledge will be invaluable - it's something many people do not have. Actual in-the-trenches experience of distributed systems at scale is fairly rare. Anything that helped you acquire that while being paid is likely not wasted!