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Skills
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)unmatched
- Continuous Deployment/Deliveryunmatched
- Continuous Integrationunmatched
- Cryptographyunmatched
- DevOpsunmatched
- Diversityunmatched
- FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standards) 140-2unmatched
- Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS)unmatched
- Information Technology & Information Systemsunmatched
- Machine Toolunmatched
- Operations Security (OPSEC)unmatched
- Production Systemsunmatched
- Security Monitoringunmatched
- Software Administrationunmatched
- Splunkunmatched
- United States Department of Defense (DoD)unmatched
- Workforce Managementunmatched
Description
Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Our client provider of digital technology and transformation, information technology and services
Position: Lead I - DevOps Engineering
Location: Bellevue WA
Duration: 6 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Hybrid
Job Description:
Role Overview:
- The Senior Kubernetes Engineer (Onshore) leads the design, deployment, and operations of the Customer Proprietary Kubernetes Platform (CKP) within the AWS GovCloud environment.
- This role works on-site with the client to provision CKP clusters, deploy platform services, implement security hardening, and stand up observability infrastructure supporting CFB application workloads across NPE and production environments.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design and deploy Customer Proprietary Kubernetes Platform (CKP) provisioning pipelines via GitLab CI/CD and Terraform Enterprise (TFE).
- Provision CKP instances for non-production (NPE) and production environments.
- Deploy TFE on CKP; configure workspaces, OIDC-based GitLab integration, and encrypted state.
- Apply CKP platform security hardening: RBAC, network policies, pod security standards, and FIPS-compliant configurations.
- Deploy and maintain observability stack: Prometheus, Grafana, and Fluent Bit on CKP.
- Deploy CFB applications (TAG, Cequence, 5x UIs, BriteBill) to CKP in NPE and PROD; validate application health and security controls.
- Implement per-application security controls: mTLS, Splunk/Cribl log forwarding, and application-level observability dashboards.
- Execute DR exercises and validate cluster recovery procedures.
- Deliver KT sessions on CKP operations and security monitoring to client teams.
- Contribute to operational runbooks and the system handover document.
Required Qualifications:
- 8+ years of infrastructure/platform engineering with 5+ years of Kubernetes production experience.
- Expert-level Kubernetes skills: cluster provisioning, RBAC, network policies, storage, and upgrades.
- Experience deploying and operating Kubernetes on AWS (EKS or equivalent on GovCloud).
- Hands-on experience with Helm, kubectl, Kustomize, and GitOps tooling.
- Proficiency with Terraform and GitLab CI/CD for Kubernetes provisioning pipelines.
- FIPS 140-2 and encryption-hardening experience in Kubernetes environments.
- Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, and Fluent Bit for cluster observability.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS).
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect with EKS-focused experience.
- Experience with Splunk/Cribl integration from Kubernetes workloads.
- Familiarity with FedRAMP or DoD IL2 container security standards.
- Experience with supply-chain security: image signing (Cosign/Sigstore), SBOM, admission controllers (OPA/Gatekeeper).
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Bellevue, WA |
| Industry | Computer/IT Services |
| Salary | $65.14 |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Year Founded | 2009 |
| Website | http://www.tekwissen.com/ |
About Company
WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE
TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.
To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.
Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.
It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.
Capabilities and accomplishments in one TekWissen business enhance the opportunity for success in the others. Put simply, TekWissen's unique combination of attributes promotes success.