Full Job Description
Mid, Senior Kubernetes Administrator
Location: Newport News, VA - full-time onsite
Clearance: U.S. citizenship and an active Secret clearance
Job Description
We are seeking experienced Integration Kubernetes Administrators with in-depth knowledge of the entire software development life-cycle.
Key Responsibilities
- Maintain Kubernetes-based integration and test environments deployed across multiple environments.
- Ensure environment stays in configuration managed state and does not exhibit configuration drift from established baselines.
- Ensure inclusion of Cyber Security in the full DevOps deployment pipeline and ensure test environment has all patches applied when they are available.
- Strong background in Kubernetes administration and maintenance.
- Understanding of the importance of monitoring in a test and integration environment.
- Understanding of the importance of configuration management in a test environment.
- Ensure high availability of test and integration environment.
- Manage change requests between development, staging, and production environments
- Exhibit a positive attitude, a high level of initiative, and must enjoy the challenge of bringing structured notional software solutions to ill-defined environments
- Interface with multiple, geographically-disbursed development teams and effectively communicate project statuses and barriers
Basic Qualifications
- Experience with AWS and on-prem Kubernetes deployments
- Experience with Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Simple Storage Service (S3), Elastic Block Storage (EBS) and Application Load Balancer (ALB)
- Experience with virtual machine environments (VMware/Broadcom)
- Experience with Ansible, Packer, Terraform implementations
- Experience with containers and container orchestration
- Working knowledge of Unix/Linux (RHEL 9) system administration
- Attention to detail coupled with the ability to quickly learn new procedures with minimal supervision
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to operate in a team environment.
- Experience with cross-platform management (Windows and Unix/Linux data exchange)
- Experience setting up and managing Kubernetes clusters in production for high availability systems
- Experience with CI/CD pipeline (Jenkins, GitOps pipeline)
- Ability to work full-time in the Newport News, VA office.
- U.S. citizenship and an active Secret clearance.
Preferred Qualifications
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator
- Certified AWS Administrator
- Experience as an operator or administrator of an enterprise joint command-and-control system
- Intel experience
- Experience with
- Big Bang, ArgoCD, FluxCD implementations
- Zarf and Helm-based deployments
- Container image signing (OCI, Cosign, SigStore, Zarf)
- Red Hat UBI base image / Iron Bank hardened components
- Secret management (External Secrets Operator, secret references)
- Certificate management (Istio service-mesh certificates, CRL distribution)
- Dynamic security policy enforcement
- Audit & logging (log management, log analysis/visualization)
- Service mesh (Istio, Zero-Trust mode)
- Experience with RKE2
