Senior Kubernetes Engineer

🕒 4 days ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $104k - $166k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🔙 Backend Engineer

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Peraton

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10,000+ employees

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

Peraton is a mission-focused enterprise that supports national security initiatives through advanced IT and cyber services. They provide capabilities in areas such as cyber defense, cloud operations, engineering, and intelligence. With a commitment to solving complex challenges, Peraton integrates data-driven technologies to ensure mission success for their military and government clients.

📋 Description

• Support development, modernization, and migration of containerized and agentic workloads in a government multi-cloud environment with 70+ customer tenants • Design and lead implementation of container-platform requirements and architecture on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) • Stand up and operate Agentic Runtime for Kubernetes (ARK) to host AI-agent workloads • Serve as the Tier 3 escalation point for complex incidents and outages across AKS and the ARK agentic-runtime environment • Investigate and resolve issues across the Kubernetes stack, including clusters, control plane, CNI networking, ingress, CSI storage, workload scheduling, ARK control plane, and Custom Resources • Drive root cause analysis on high-severity incidents and implement solutions to prevent recurrence • Manage high-priority incident communications with stakeholders, leadership, and affected tenants • Define and enforce observability standards using Azure Monitor, Managed Prometheus, Container Insights, Azure Log Analytics, and OpenTelemetry • Proactively identify and mitigate cluster, node-pool, and workload risks • Analyze performance, cost, and capacity trends and architect optimizations for stability, efficiency, and security at scale • Lead management and maintenance of AKS clusters and the ARK agentic runtime across a 70+ tenant environment • Deploy, upgrade, and operate ARK on Kubernetes, managing CRDs, controllers, model integrations, tool integrations, and MCP servers • Ensure tenant resources are secure and FedRAMP compliant, enforcing Kubernetes RBAC, network policy, and Azure workload identity • Partner with the Architecture team on Azure Well-Architected Framework and Kubernetes best-practice solutions • Own and enforce Change Management procedures • Lead incident intake, triage prioritization, and team workload management • Mentor and train Tier 2 engineers and lead knowledge-transfer sessions • Improve team metrics and service delivery with the Service Delivery Manager and Product Owner • Maintain documentation of incident response procedures, architecture decisions, and lessons learned

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree and 8 years of experience, or Master's degree and 6 years of experience, or Associate's degree and 10 years of experience, or High School diploma/equivalent and 12 years of experience • Must be a U.S. Citizen • Ability to obtain and maintain a DHS Public Trust clearance • Engineering and systems analysis experience with a deep hands-on focus on Kubernetes in production • Extensive hands-on expertise operating Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and the broader Kubernetes stack, including control plane, CNI networking, ingress, CSI storage, RBAC, Helm, and workload scheduling • Hands-on experience deploying and operating Agentic Runtime for Kubernetes (ARK) or comparable Kubernetes-native agent or operator platforms built on the CRD-plus-controller pattern • Experience with ARK Custom Resources and MCP/A2A integration • Proven experience leading incident management and root cause analysis in large-scale, multi-tenant government environments • Deep knowledge of FedRAMP compliance and Kubernetes and Azure security best practices • Strong leadership, communication, and technical documentation skills • Ability to communicate effectively with technical teams and senior stakeholders • Preferred: Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) • Preferred: Microsoft Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104) or Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305) • Preferred: GitOps and Infrastructure as Code, including Terraform, Bicep, Helm, and Argo CD or Flux • Preferred: CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions • Preferred: Python, PowerShell, or Go scripting for automation and remediation, including the ARK Python SDK • Preferred: Experience integrating LLM providers such as Azure OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, or local models

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical insurance • Dental insurance • Vision insurance • Life insurance • Health savings account • Short-term disability • Long-term disability • Employee Assistance Program (EAP) • Parental leave • 401(k) • Paid time off (PTO) for vacation • Company paid holidays • Potential eligibility for overtime • Potential eligibility for shift differential • Potential eligibility for a discretionary bonus

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