Senior Kubernetes Engineer with Active TS/SCI
Fulltime
Onsite 5 days a week in Colorado Springs CO
Active TS/SCI required. Program: DevSecOps Platform and Space C2 Enablement / KM Platform Teamwork.
The Kubernetes Engineer designs, secures, deploys, operates, and continuously improves Kubernetes-based platform capabilities supporting the DevSecOps Platform and Space C2 Enablement effort. The role supports the KM Platform Team by maintaining resilient container orchestration services, enabling software product teams, strengthening platform reliability and observability, and ensuring containerized services remain secure, scalable, and aligned with mission, Agile, and DevSecOps delivery expectations across multiple environments.
Minimum Qualifications
Minimum 6-8 years of professional experience in Kubernetes engineering, platform engineering, cloud-native infrastructure, systems engineering, DevSecOps, or related technical delivery, including at least two years of SRE- related experience.
U.S. citizenship and active Secret clearance required; ability to obtain and maintain required system, facility, and network access.
Experience delivering container orchestration solutions and designing, building, and implementing cloud-native architectures using Kubernetes.
Experience maintaining, configuring, monitoring, upgrading, and troubleshooting Kubernetes clusters and containerized
services in development, test, staging, and production environments.
Experience using Infrastructure as Code, automation, scripting, configuration management, service discovery, infrastructure orchestration, and automated deployment practices.
Experience designing containerized solutions for microservices, relational and non-relational databases, data auditing, caching, performance, and supporting platform services.
Experience implementing observability solutions, key metrics, monitoring foundations, dashboards, alerting, log aggregation, and trend analysis capabilities.
Ability to troubleshoot Kubernetes, containerized service, platform, networking, access, and performance issues and
produce root cause analysis or postmortem documentation.
Experience deploying and managing microservices using container orchestration platforms and supporting secure, scalable, and reliable platform operations. Familiarity with tools such as Argo CD, cert-manager, Ingress, Keycloak, MinIO, MongoDB, Pinniped, Prometheus,
Grafana, VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid, Sealed Secrets, Tanzu Postgres and Operator, Vault, Velero/Restic, Harbor, Kustomize, Jira, Confluence, GitLab, and Helm.
