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Leidos · 10 hours ago

Kubernetes Engineer

Colorado Springs, CO

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$108K/yr - $195K/yr

8+ years exp

Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. The Kubernetes Engineer role involves leveraging Kubernetes technology to provide onsite support for the US Space Force’s Space Systems Command, focusing on delivering, installing, upgrading, and maintaining resilient solutions for software applications.

ComputerGovernmentInformation ServicesInformation TechnologyNational SecuritySoftware

No H1B

Security Clearance Required

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

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

Qualification

KubernetesSite Reliability EngineeringInfrastructure as CodeCloud platformsHelm chartsKubernetes securityDistributed systemsAgile frameworkCollaborationMentoring

Required

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, additional years of experience may be accepted in lieu of degree

US Citizen and Possession of a current Active DoD Top Secret Clearance with SCI eligibility

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