Kubernetes Admin/Engineer

About [Employer]

Overview

[Employer] is a digital engineering company focused on delivering modern solutions for public benefit that are backed by emerging technologies.

Mission over Margin

We value serving the client mission over everything else. We believe there are too many public sector-focused firms in this industry that are distracted by their bottom line, forcing their customers and the public take a back seat. We started [Employer] to be better. We are here to benefit the general public by helping the government solve critical technology challenges.

We Do Not Settle for Mediocrity

Our philosophy is "A's hire A's." As such, we hire top talent into every position. We roll up our sleeves to solve our industry’s toughest challenges, which requires incredibly talented people at our side. We offer one of the best benefits packages in the industry to prove our commitment to attracting and retaining the best talent. We also understand that our company may not be for everyone. Every new employee is subject to a 90-day probationary period. If this is not a good fit, we may decide to part ways. We will make sure you are taken care of financially until you can find a new role.

About You

Regardless of the role you are applying for, you will be a great fit in [Employer] if this describes you:

• You are a top performer in your current role
• You are radically collaborative and transparent with your peers, clients, and leadership
• You enjoy succeeding as a team
• You love solving problems and trying new things
• You hate bureaucracy, red tape, and wasteful processes
• When you see something that's broken, you fix it
• "That's not my job" doesn't exist in your vocabulary

If you do not meet the qualifications listed below, but believe you are fully capable of doing this job, please apply anyway.

• 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

• 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.

• 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

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