Infinitive · 19 hours ago
Senior Kubernetes Engineer
McLean, VA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior LevelInfinitive is a data and AI consultancy that helps clients modernize and monetize their data. The Senior Kubernetes Engineer will design, implement, and maintain a secure Kubernetes environment that replicates a top US bank's application landscape, ensuring compliance and operational excellence.
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Responsibilities
Design a Kubernetes-based reference architecture that mirrors the bank’s multi-tier, microservices, data, and network topology in a fully isolated environment
Define patterns for stateless and stateful workloads, storage, networking, and security that align with banking-grade resilience, performance, and compliance expectations
Establish a 'single-command' or fully scripted bootstrap process for cluster creation, configuration, and teardown (e.g., using Helm, Kustomize, Terraform/infra-as-code, and Kubernetes manifests)
Model core banking, payments, digital channels, and integration layers as containerized workloads, including supporting services (databases, message queues, APIs, batch jobs)
Implement strict network segmentation, zero-trust policies, and namespace/tenant isolation to emulate production controls while ensuring complete separation from live systems and data
Create synthetic data generation and masking strategies so scenarios can run with realistic but non-production data
Build fully automated scripts/pipelines for provisioning Kubernetes clusters and underlying infrastructure
Deploy all application components, dependencies, and configuration from source control
Execute and reset scenarios, test suites, and performance runs
Ensure the entire environment (infrastructure + apps + config) is reproducible from code with no interactive/manual steps
Implement security best practices for secrets management, RBAC, admission controls, policy-as-code, and audit logging suitable for highly regulated financial institutions
Integrate compliance checks (e.g., image scanning, configuration policies, vulnerability scanning) into the environment build and deployment scripts
Work closely with security, risk, and compliance teams to align the replicated environment with relevant standards and internal controls
Define and tune resource requests/limits, autoscaling policies, and resilience patterns (readiness/liveness probes, pod disruption budgets, etc.)
Implement full observability (metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and alerts) to monitor scenarios and environment health
Conduct benchmarking and capacity planning to ensure the environment can support realistic load and stress scenarios
Partner with application teams, platform engineering, and architecture to understand production designs and translate them into the replicated environment
Document the target architecture, deployment runbooks, configuration standards, and scenario execution guides for technical and non-technical stakeholders
Provide knowledge transfer and training to internal teams on maintaining and extending the replicated environment
Qualification
Required
Extensive hands-on experience designing and operating Kubernetes in large, complex enterprises (financial services experience strongly preferred)
Deep knowledge of: Kubernetes primitives (Deployments, StatefulSets, DaemonSets, Services, Ingress, NetworkPolicies)
Infrastructure-as-code and GitOps practices
Container security and secrets management
Proven experience building fully automated, script-driven environments with minimal or no manual steps
Strong understanding of enterprise networking, security controls, and isolation patterns (e.g., service mesh, zero-trust, multi-tenancy)
Familiarity with regulated industry requirements (e.g., banking/financial services security and compliance expectations)
Preferred
Experience replicating or modeling production-like environments for testing, DR, or sandbox purposes in a bank or large financial institution
Background in CI/CD, test automation, and performance testing within containerized environments
Experience interfacing with risk, audit, and compliance stakeholders to design defensible technical controls
Company
Infinitive
Infinitive helps companies master the digital world with capabilities in marketing, digital advertising, business transformation and more.
Founded in 2003
51-200 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageLeadership Team
Denis McFarlane
Founder & Executive Chairman
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