Kubernetes Engineer (Cloud Native Infrastructure & Automation)

Looking for a career where hard work is valued and your ideas and feedback are part of the way we operate daily Want to bring your skills to a company that encourages teamwork and champions continued education and process improvement

Atlas Tech a veteran-owned IT company serving multiple DoD customers in support of Americas warfighters is seeking an experienced Subject Matter Expert (SME) specializing in Kubernetes and cloud native infrastructure . The ideal candidate will bring deep hands on knowledge of container orchestration cluster operations automation frameworks and modern DevOps practices. Experience with multi cluster environments service mesh and cloud provider Kubernetes platforms is highly valuable. This role focuses on designing implementing and optimizing enterprise grade Kubernetes environments to drive scalability reliability and operational excellence.

This position allows for telework up to 2 days per week. However Atlas reserves the right to adjust the schedule if required to meet the needs of our customer.

Travel Up To - 10%

You Will:

• Serve as the primary technical authority for Kubernetes strategy operations and best practices.
• Architect deploy and manage Kubernetes clusters across bare-metal virtualized and multi-cloud environments.
• Leverage GitOps delivery pipelines using Argo CD (or Flux) to automate infrastructure state cluster add-ons and workload deployments across multi-cluster environments.
• Configure tune and troubleshoot cluster networking including Container Network Interfaces ingress controllers and service mesh architectures.
• Build and optimize enhance monitoring logging and tracing frameworks to ensure cluster reliability and workload visibility.
• Troubleshoot complex cluster issues including networking scheduling performance tuning and node health.
• Collaborate with application teams to onboard workloads design deployment patterns and optimize resource usage.
• Drive documentation standards and reusable automation templates for repeatability across environments.
• Provide knowledge transfer training and mentorship to junior engineers and cross functional teams

You Have:

• Must be a US Citizen.
• Must currently possess and maintain a Department of Defense (DoD) Secret Level Security Clearance.
• Extensive hands-on Kubernetes experience including cluster operations workload deployment and infrastructure components.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms providing managed Kubernetes (AKS EKS GKE).
• Excellent communication and documentation skills.
• Solid understanding of containers and container build processes (Docker Podman Buildah etc.).
• Strong troubleshooting skills for cluster networking storage and control plane issues.
• Experience with service mesh technologies (Istio Linkerd) or ingress controllers (NGINX HAProxy Traefik)
• Experience with Helm charts Kustomize and Kubernetes Operators templating/packaging mechanism.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes security tooling (OPA/Gatekeeper Kyverno Falco).
• Strong skills with automation tooling (Ansible Terraform or similar).
• Proficiency with Git Jenkins YAML CI/CD pipelines and DevOps workflows.
• Familiarity with DoD/DoW compliance automation (DISA STIGs SCAP RMF)
• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain complex concepts clearly

Wed be Impressed if You Had:

• Certifications such as Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
• Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS)
• Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)

Education/Experience

• BS Degree in relevant technical field or combination of education and experience
• Ability to obtain the following certs within 3 months of start date:
  • CompTIA Security CE
  • Professional Scrum Developer certification or Certified Scrum Developer certification
• 3 years of dedicated hands-on experience designing provisioning and administering production Kubernetes environments.
• 5 years experience working with a wide range of IT products

In addition to a great culture at Atlas Tech we pride ourselves on our Core Values of Learning; Teaching; Passion; and Flexibility. We have been recognized in the top 25 in both South Carolina and Virginia as one of the Best Places to Work for three straight years. We have also been honored with the US DOL Hire Vets Gold Award since 2020.

Want to hear more Read on to see what our Team Members say about their experience:

From day 1 I knew Atlas Tech was where I wanted to be. Atlas culture embraces creativeness community involvement and taking care of their employees. If youre looking for a great place to work come join us! - Blane

I could not have asked for a better company to transition from Active-Duty military to civilian life. Atlas not only provides opportunities for professional growth but its also highly encouraged. The passion and appreciation for what we do that is displayed every day makes it exciting for me to come to work each day. - Laurence

Atlas Tech is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex age sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability genetic information or protected veteran status. We are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where diverse perspectives are valued and respected.

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Atlas Tech offers a competitive salary generous benefits package and an opportunity to make a positive impact in your own community.

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