Kubernetes Engineer

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $107.9k - $195.1k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

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Leidos

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1969

🔒 Cybersecurity

🔬 Science

Defense • Cybersecurity • Science

Leidos is a leading systems integrator in science, technology, and engineering, providing solutions that transform and enable the missions of its customers. The company operates across various markets, including aviation, defense, energy, government, healthcare, intelligence, science, and space. Leidos is involved in AI, digital modernization, cyber operations, and integrated and mission software systems. With a commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and sustainability, Leidos also engages in charitable efforts and community enrichment programs. Additionally, it contributes to developing solutions for counter-unmanned aerial systems and electric vehicle infrastructure for military applications.

📋 Description

• 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

🎯 Requirements

• 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), Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate (KCNA) certification or equivalent

🏖️ Benefits

• competitive compensation • Health and Wellness programs • Income Protection • Paid Leave • Retirement