Senior Kubernetes Engineer

Role: Senior Kubernetes Engineer

Location: Remote

ANY VISA Except H1b 

Duration: 12+ Month 

Kubernetes certification- CKS and CKA- 

Must have Skills:
Total 12+ years 
Skill 1 – 7 Yrs of Exp – AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform
Skill 2 – 7Yrs of Exp – Splunk
Skill 3 – 5Yrs of Exp in IT Cloud

Required Qualifications

8+ years of infrastructure/platform engineering with 5+ years of Kubernetes production experience.
Expert-level Kubernetes skills: cluster provisioning, RBAC, network policies, storage, and upgrades.
Experience deploying and operating Kubernetes on AWS (EKS or equivalent on GovCloud).
Hands-on experience with Helm, kubectl, Kustomize, and GitOps tooling.
Proficiency with Terraform and GitLab CI/CD for Kubernetes provisioning pipelines.
FIPS 140-2 and encryption-hardening experience in Kubernetes environments.
Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, and Fluent Bit for cluster observability.
U.S. Citizenship required — GovCloud access requires US-persons confirmation.

Preferred Qualifications

Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS).
AWS Certified Solutions Architect with EKS-focused experience.
Experience with Splunk/Cribl integration from Kubernetes workloads.
Familiarity with FedRAMP or DoD IL2 container security standards.
Experience with supply-chain security: image signing (Cosign/Sigstore), SBOM, admission controllers (OPA/Gatekeeper).