Kubernetes Admin/Engineer

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