Principal Kubernetes Engineer

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $154.1k - $278.5k / year

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Leidos

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1969

🏥 Healthcare

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

Healthcare • Consulting • Logistics

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

• Design, build, and operate enterprise Kubernetes platforms for secure hybrid cloud and on-premises environments • Architect scalable, highly available, and resilient platform services for secure software delivery • Develop reusable platform capabilities for application deployment, operations, and lifecycle management • Implement Infrastructure as Code, automation, and continuous delivery practices • Engineer secure Kubernetes services with identity management, policy enforcement, workload isolation, secrets management, and platform hardening • Optimize performance, scalability, networking, storage, resource utilization, and operational health • Troubleshoot complex production issues across Kubernetes, Linux, networking, storage, and distributed systems • Collaborate with platform, cloud, cybersecurity, and software development teams • Improve observability through metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards, and proactive monitoring • Evaluate platform technologies and recommend improvements • Develop engineering standards, technical documentation, and architectural guidance • Provide technical leadership through architecture reviews, design discussions, mentoring, and engineering best practices • Deliver platform capabilities that accelerate software delivery and improve developer productivity • Serve as the organization’s trusted technical authority for Kubernetes and platform engineering

🎯 Requirements

• Master's degree with 15+ years of relevant experience or doctorate with 13+ years of relevant experience; additional years of experience accepted in lieu of a degree • 8+ years of progressively responsible experience designing, building, and operating production Kubernetes platforms • Strong expertise in Azure Cloud Engineering and Cloud Infrastructure • Expertise designing, building, securing, and operating enterprise Kubernetes platforms for highly available production workloads • Experience engineering cloud-native infrastructure across hybrid cloud and on-premises environments • Experience with Infrastructure as Code, automation, continuous integration, and continuous delivery • Strong understanding of Linux, networking, container technologies, distributed systems, platform security, and observability • Ability to architect platform solutions and drive engineering best practices • Active Secret security clearance • Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) • Current CompTIA Security+ certification or equivalent Department of Defense-approved Information Assurance certification • Ability to travel 25%

🏖️ Benefits

• Health and Wellness programs • Income Protection • Paid Leave • Retirement • Competitive compensation • 25% travel