Principal Kubernetes Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Design, construct, and manage enterprise Kubernetes platforms for secure hybrid cloud and on-premises settings.

• Architect scalable, highly available, and resilient platform services to ensure secure software delivery.

• Develop reusable platform functionalities for application deployment, operations, and lifecycle management.

• Implement Infrastructure as Code, automation, and continuous delivery methodologies.

• Engineer secure Kubernetes services featuring identity management, policy enforcement, workload isolation, secrets management, and platform fortification.

• Optimize performance, scalability, networking, storage, resource utilization, and operational health.

• Troubleshoot intricate production issues across Kubernetes, Linux, networking, storage, and distributed systems.

• Collaborate with platform, cloud, cybersecurity, and software development teams.

• Enhance observability through metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards, and proactive monitoring.

• Assess platform technologies and suggest improvements.

• Develop engineering standards, technical documentation, and architectural guidance.

• Provide technical leadership via architecture reviews, design discussions, mentoring, and engineering best practices.

• Deliver platform capabilities that expedite software delivery and enhance developer productivity.

• Act as the organization’s trusted technical authority on Kubernetes and platform engineering.

⛳️ Requirements

• Master's degree with over 15 years of relevant experience or a doctorate with more than 13 years of relevant experience; additional years of experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.

• More than 8 years of progressively responsible experience in designing, building, and operating production Kubernetes platforms.

• Strong expertise in Azure Cloud Engineering and Cloud Infrastructure.

• Proficiency in designing, building, securing, and operating enterprise Kubernetes platforms for highly available production workloads.

• Experience in engineering cloud-native infrastructure in both hybrid cloud and on-premises environments.

• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code, automation, continuous integration, and continuous delivery.

• Solid understanding of Linux, networking, container technologies, distributed systems, platform security, and observability.

• Capability to architect platform solutions and promote engineering best practices.

• Active Secret security clearance.

• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA).

• Current CompTIA Security+ certification or an equivalent Department of Defense-approved Information Assurance certification.

• Willingness to travel 25% of the time.

🏝️ Benefits

• Health and Wellness programs.

• Income Protection.

• Paid Leave.

• Retirement.

• Competitive compensation.

• 25% travel.