What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Kubernetes Engineer - Bellevue, WA (hybrid) position at Empower Professionals?
Role: Senior Kubernetes Engineer
Location: Bellevue, WA (hybrid)
Duration: 12 Month
Must have Skills:
Skill 1 7Yrs of Exp AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform
Skill 2 7Yrs of Exp Splunk
Skill 3 5Yrs of Exp in IT Cloud
Required Qualifications
- 8 years of infrastructure/platform engineering with 5 years of Kubernetes production experience.
- Expert-level Kubernetes skills: cluster provisioning, RBAC, network policies, storage, and upgrades.
- Experience deploying and operating Kubernetes on AWS (EKS or equivalent on GovCloud).
- Hands-on experience with Helm, kubectl, Kustomize, and GitOps tooling.
- Proficiency with Terraform and GitLab CI/CD for Kubernetes provisioning pipelines.
- FIPS 140-2 and encryption-hardening experience in Kubernetes environments.
- Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, and Fluent Bit for cluster observability.
Preferred Qualifications
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS).
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect with EKS-focused experience.
- Experience with Splunk/Cribl integration from Kubernetes workloads.
- Familiarity with FedRAMP or DoD IL2 container security standards.
- Experience with supply-chain security: image signing (Cosign/Sigstore), SBOM, admission controllers (OPA/Gatekeeper).