DevOps / Kubernetes Platform Engineer

Salary: Up to $130K (depending on experience) + bonus

Work Authorization: Due to client requirements, only candidates who do not require sponsorship now or in the future will be considered.

Benefits:

• Unlimited PTO
• Full healthcare coverage for employees + family (medical, dental, vision, life, and supplemental insurances)
• Short- and Long-Term Disability (STD/LTD)
• HSA & FSA options

This role owns the reliability, security, and evolution of a production Kubernetes platform and the deployment standards that engineering teams use every day. Success requires deep, hands-on cluster administration, the ability to troubleshoot complex failures inside the cluster, and strong ownership of GitOps-driven delivery for containerized applications. You will assess the current environment quickly, drive improvements with clear operational rigor, and set the foundation for a future migration to a new Kubernetes runtime.

Responsibilities:

• Own the production Kubernetes platform end-to-end, including cluster administration, architecture decisions, upgrades, access controls, and day-to-day operational health.
• Diagnose and resolve cluster-level incidents across networking, DNS, ingress, storage, workload scheduling, resource limits/requests, and security boundaries to restore service and prevent recurrence.
• Assess the current cluster and deployment ecosystem early in the role, identify configuration and architectural gaps, and drive prioritized remediation with measurable reliability and performance outcomes.
• Design and implement Kubernetes architecture improvements, including namespace and tenancy strategies, policy controls, workload standards, and secure-by-default configuration.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows for containerized applications using GitHub Actions/Workflows, Argo CD (or similar), Docker, YAML, and Helm.
• Establish and enforce deployment patterns and operational standards, including Helm chart conventions, environment promotion rules, rollback strategies, and release traceability.
• Partner with application teams to support Java build and deployment needs, ensuring Maven-based pipelines produce consistent artifacts and deploy cleanly into Kubernetes.
• Plan and execute platform modernization work, including preparing for a future migration from the current enterprise Kubernetes environment to AWS-based Kubernetes, with clear milestones and risk management.
• Document platform architecture, runbooks, and troubleshooting playbooks to improve operational consistency and reduce time to recovery.

Required Skills:

• 5+ years of DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering experience supporting production systems.
• Deep, hands-on ownership of production Kubernetes, including cluster administration, architecture, troubleshooting, networking, storage, workloads, resource management, and security; ability to design or substantially re-architect a cluster.
• Proven experience owning CI/CD and GitOps for containerized applications using GitHub Actions/Workflows, Argo CD (or comparable GitOps tooling), Docker, YAML, and Helm.
• Experience building and deploying Java applications through Maven-based pipelines, with enough understanding of Java builds to collaborate effectively with developers.
• Strong incident response and root-cause analysis skills, including the ability to isolate failures to platform, cluster, or application layers and drive fixes to closure.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with OpenShift in production environments.
• Experience with enterprise Kubernetes offerings such as AWS EKS or Google GKE, including operational ownership and platform design decisions.