Job Description
Our Client, an IT Services and Consultant company, is looking for a Senior Kubernetes Platform Engineer Lead for their Remote location.
Responsibilities:
- Design, build, and operate production-grade Kubernetes platforms in regulated environments
- Improve system reliability through automation, thoughtful design, and continuous iteration
- Define and drive SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets to guide reliability decisions
- Build and evolve CI/CD pipelines that are secure, scalable, and easy to use
- Implement robust observability (metrics, logs, traces) to make systems understandable and actionable
- Reduce operational toil by automating repetitive processes and improving workflows
- Partner with security and compliance teams to meet FedRAMP High and IL5 requirements without sacrificing developer velocity
- Support ATO processes, including documentation, controls implementation, and audit readiness
- Participate in on-call rotations supporting customer requests and paging alerts
- Participate in incident response, blameless postmortems, and continuous improvement efforts
- Help shape a platform that engineers enjoy using
Requirements:- 10+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering
- Strong experience running Kubernetes in production (EKS, AKS, GKE, or upstream)
- Hands-on experience working in FedRAMP High and/or DoD IL5 environments
- Solid understanding of cloud infrastructure, Linux systems, and networking fundamentals
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred)
- Familiarity with CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, ArgoCD)
- Proficiency in scripting or programming (Python, Go)
- Experience building or operating observability platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK)
- Working knowledge of compliance frameworks (e.g., NIST 800-53, STIGs, RMF)
- Experience with service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd)
- Familiarity with policy-as-code (OPA/Gatekeeper, Kyverno)
- Experience with GitOps workflows
- Exposure to multi-cluster or hybrid cloud architectures
- Knowledge of FIPS-compliant systems or DoD Cloud SRG
- Relevant certifications (CKA, CKS, cloud provider certs, Security+)
Why Should You Apply?
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Remote, NC (Remote) |
| Salary | $64.29 Per Hour |
Skills
Automationunmatched
Budgetingunmatched
Cloud Architectureunmatched
Cloud Computingunmatched
CompTIA Security+unmatched
Continuous Deployment/Deliveryunmatched
Continuous Improvementunmatched
Continuous Integrationunmatched
Customer Support/Serviceunmatched
DevOpsunmatched
Documentationunmatched
Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS)unmatched
GitHubunmatched
Health Planunmatched
Hybrid Cloudunmatched
Incident Responseunmatched
Information Technology Consultingunmatched
Jenkinsunmatched
Linux Operating Systemunmatched
Metricsunmatched
On Callunmatched
Process Improvementunmatched
Python Programming/Scripting Languageunmatched
Reliability Engineeringunmatched
Scripting (Scripting Languages)unmatched
Systems Reliabilityunmatched
U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)unmatched
United States Department of Defense (DoD)unmatched
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