Secret Kubernetes Engineer

Required Skills & Experience

• Must have an active Secret level security clearance.
• Bachelors Degree in any technical field and 5 years of experience in technology based roles.
• Ability to obtain the following certs within 3 months of start date: CompTIA Security+ CE, Professional Scrum Developer certification or Certified Scrum Developer certification
• 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.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain complex concepts clearly

Nice to Have Skills & Experience

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

Job Description

Insight Global is hiring a Kubernetes Engineer to join a federal program based out of Charleston, SC supporting mission readiness and communication systems. The ideal candidate will bring deep hands on knowledge of Kubernetes 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. If you are open to a Hybrid role based out of Charleston, SC then this will be a perfect position for you. Responsibilities include:

• 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 The compensation range for this position varies from $100,000 to $150,000 depending on experience and qualifications.