Kubernetes Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Colorado.

📋 Description

• Deliver, install, upgrade, patch, and maintain highly reliable and resilient Kubernetes solutions.

• Engage in Agile methodologies including daily stand-ups, sprint/iteration planning, retrospectives, backlog and roadmap execution, performance metrics, and reporting on progress/blockers.

• Secure and configure containerized services orchestrated by Kubernetes and their underlying environments.

• Optimize Kubernetes performance and detect issues using service and traffic metrics, monitoring, and alerting dashboards.

• Oversee the lifecycle management of containerized services utilized in Kobayashi Maru software development.

• Diagnose issues with containerized services and publish root cause analyses and postmortems.

• Establish Service Level Objectives and Site Reliability Engineering metrics.

• Manage north-south and east-west network traffic for essential container-based services.

• Ensure Kubernetes environments are properly patched, configured, sufficiently resourced, scalable, and not overprovisioned.

• Design, secure, deploy, and manage Kubernetes environments using automation and an everything-as-code approach across testing, IL4 development, IL6 staging/production, and higher-classification environments.

• Provide support for 14 software product teams and thousands of users engaged in developing software for space defense, space domain awareness, and data services.

⛳️ Requirements

• At least 6 years of professional experience as a Kubernetes Engineer, which includes a minimum of two years in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).

• A Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, STEM, or IT from an accredited institution.

• Current certifications such as Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD), Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate (KCNA), or equivalent.

• Proven experience in delivering container orchestration solutions.

• Background in designing, building, and implementing cloud-native architectures using Kubernetes.

• Experience in maintaining, configuring, and monitoring containers through Infrastructure as Code principles in development, testing, and production environments.

• Familiarity with designing containerized solutions for relational/non-relational databases, data auditing, caching, and performance optimization.

• Knowledge in implementing observability solutions and setting up monitoring foundations.

• Experience in troubleshooting and performing root cause analyses.

• Proficient in deploying and managing micro-services via container orchestration platforms.

• Skilled in automating system tasks and infrastructure using scripting languages, configuration management tools, service registry and discovery tools, infrastructure orchestration tools, and automated imaging tools.

• Experience with optimizing monitoring and trending systems, log aggregation systems, and their agents.

• Proficiency with one or more of the following: Argo CD, cert-manager, Ingress, Keycloak, MinIO, MongoDB, Pinniped, Prometheus, Grafana, VMWare Tanzu Kubernetes Grid, Sealed Secrets, Tanzu Postgres and Operator, Vault, Velero/Restic, Harbor, Kustomize, Jira, Confluence, Gitlab, and Helm.

• Active Secret clearance is required.

• Security+ certification is necessary if privileged access is needed for the role.

🏝️ Benefits

• Health/Dental/Vision coverage.

• 401(k) matching.

• Paid Time Off.

• Short-Term/Long-Term Disability and Life Insurance.

• Referral Bonuses.

• Professional development reimbursement.

• Parental leave.