Kubernetes Engineer Remote

Responsibilities: - Secure and configure containerized services orchestrated with Kubernetes, and its underlying environment. - Tune Kubernetes performance and identify problems by using service and traffic metrics by establishing monitoring and alerting dashboards. - Lead the lifecycle management of all containerized services used in the development of Kobayashi Maru software. - Lead troubleshooting containerized-services and publishing root cause analysis (RCAs) and postmortems with the larger portfolio. - Establish Service Level Objectives and other Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) related metrics. - Manage the north-south and east-west network traffic to ensure all container-based critical services are maintained. - Ensure the Kubernetes environment is running as it should, properly patched and configured, has sufficient resources to run the required applications, and can scale as needed without being overprovisioned. - Design, secure, deploy, and manage the Kubernetes environment required to support 14 software product teams and thousands of users across the test, IL4 development, IL6 staging/production, and higher classification level stagging/production environments. - Design, implement, and maintain highly available Kubernetes clusters across cloud and on-prem environments. - Automate infrastructure provisioning, monitoring, and scaling using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and CI/CD pipelines. - Develop and manage Helm charts for application deployment and configuration management. - Deploy and manage applications on cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). - Monitor and troubleshoot Kubernetes workloads, networking, and persistent storage solutions. - Implement Kubernetes security best practices, including RBAC, network policies, and container runtime security. - Optimize performance and reliability of containerized applications in distributed systems. - Collaborate with development, security, and operations teams to enhance DevOps workflows and cloud-native application delivery. - Integrate Kubernetes with service meshes, logging, and observability tools such as Istio, Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK Stack. - Participate in system upgrades, disaster recovery planning, and compliance initiatives such as NIST, CIS Benchmarks, and FedRAMP. - Mentor junior engineers and contribute to knowledge sharing within the organization. Basic Qualifications: - Requires BS degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, STEM, or IT and 8+ years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 6+ years of prior relevant experience. - US Citizen and Possession of a current Active DoD Secret Clearance. - Minimum 8 years of professional experience as a Kubernetes Engineer, successfully designing and building distributed systems for mid to large enterprises, including two years of SRE experience. - Possession one of the following certifications: Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD), or Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate (KCNA) certification or equivalent.