Kubernetes Container Platform Engineer

Job Title: Kubernetes Container Platform Engineer

Location: Alpharetta, GA / Omaha, NE (Onsite, 5 days per week)

Duration: Contract-to-Hire (W2 Only)


About the Role

As a Kubernetes Container Platform Engineer (PaaS & CaaS), you will design, implement, and operate container platforms with a strong focus on automation and infrastructure-as-code. You'll collaborate with engineering teams to leverage both infrastructure and public cloud services, enabling self-service automation and orchestration. This role involves platform administration, client onboarding, upgrades, and global standardization of container services across the enterprise.

You will be part of a small, agile team of architects and engineers, building platform services that support the lifecycle of container platforms and simplify adoption for over 20,000 developers and DevOps teams.


Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and operate container services platforms integrated with CI/CD pipelines.
• Automate processes to improve efficiency and eliminate repetitive manual tasks.
• Diagnose, replicate, and resolve technical issues reported on PaaS and CaaS platforms.
• Develop maintainable, reusable software with a consumer-first mindset.
• Escalate unresolved issues requiring deeper expertise in a timely manner.
• Manage support requests and maintain communication with business unit customers.
• Report product defects and collaborate with engineering teams to triage issues.
• Create and review knowledge base articles and product documentation.

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor's degree + 3 years of relevant experience OR advanced degree + 4 years of experience.
• Minimum 2 years of experience building and maintaining container platforms (PAS/TAS, PKS/TKGI, OpenShift).
• Hands-on experience deploying Kubernetes on at least one public IaaS provider (Azure, AWS, GCP, Alibaba).
• Strong background in UNIX/Linux and Windows administration.
• Experience with configuration management at scale (hundreds/thousands of servers).
• Solid networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, subnetting, routing, DNS).
• Knowledge of distributed systems and virtualization (VMware).
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools (Concourse, Jenkins, Octopus Deploy, etc.).
• Experience with version control systems (Git, GitHub, GitLab).
• Background in DevOps and agile methodologies.
• On-call support experience.

Preferred:

• Proficiency in Go and Python.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code APIs (Swagger).
• Knowledge of identity, access, and certificate management.
• Experience with observability tools (Splunk, Fluentd, Prometheus/Grafana, Wavefront, AppDynamics).
• Familiarity with .NET Core and .NET Framework.
• Experience with policy engines (Open Policy Agent).
• NSX, NSX-T, Panorama experience.
• Experience with vSphere7 and Tanzu Kubernetes Grid.