Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Manage Kubernetes node lifecycle, autoscaling, and capacity planning.
- Troubleshoot complex platform, networking, and application issues across distributed systems.
- Collaborate with development, security, and platform teams to deliver secure, scalable platform capabilities.
- Drive platform automation through GitOps, GitHub, and GitHub Actions.
- Support the organization's FISMA High compliance objectives by implementing secure-by-default platform standards and operational controls.
- Leverage AI-assisted development tools, including GitHub Copilot, to improve engineering productivity and platform automation.
- On-call support
Required Qualifications:
- 5+ years of infrastructure or platform engineering experience.
- 3+ years administering production Kubernetes environments.
- Strong experience with Amazon EKS, Kubernetes architecture, and Linux administration.
- Kubernetes networking including ingress, network policies and traffic management
- Deep understanding of Kubernetes networking with hands-on experience using Cilium and Istio.
- Strong experience with Terraform and AWS infrastructure.
- Experience with Linux AMI/Container security and lifecycle management
- Experience implementing GitOps workflows using GitHub and GitHub Actions.
- Strong troubleshooting, communication, and collaboration skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- AWS or Terraform certifications
- Work on FISMA High or similar environments
- Experience with Argo CD and Argo Rollouts
- Experience with Kyverno and Kro
- Secure CI/CD and Continuous ATO (cATO) pipelines
- Container security and vulnerability scanning (Aqua or similar) Platform engineering or internal developer portals
- DataDog, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, or other observability platforms
- Helm, Kustomize, Kro, or other cloud-native abstraction tooling
- AWS security and compliance frameworks, including experience supporting FISMA or other regulated environments
- Experience with PagerDuty
- Salary range-$110-115k per year
