Senior Kubernetes Platform Engineer

Job Title: Senior Kubernetes Platform Engineer Location: Lafayette, LA, Knoxville, TN, Columbia, SC, Birmingham, AL Type: Direct Hire

Responsibilities

• Own the full Kubernetes lifecycle - from cluster provisioning and upgrades to node management and deprecation planning - ensuring high availability and operational controls across all environments.
• Optimize networking, ingress, and secure traffic flows, implement workload reliability patterns such as autoscaling and resilience testing.
• Establish observability practices for metrics, logs, traces, and alerting to ensure platform reliability.
• Implement security best practices, including RBAC, policy enforcement, image controls, secrets management, and runtime hardening.
• Build platform automation using Infrastructure as Code and GitOps workflows.
• Support incident response and troubleshoot performance issues for containerized production services.
• Manage multiple production Amazon EKS environments at scale, including provisioning, upgrades, and retirement planning.
• Configure and manage AWS networking and security components such as VPC, IAM, load balancers, and storage integrations.
• Implement container deployment strategies and reliability engineering practices like autoscaling, resource tuning, and scheduling.

Requirements

• 5+ years experience in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering, with significant hands-on Kubernetes production experience.
• Solid track record managing production Kubernetes environments, especially Amazon EKS, at scale.
• Experience owning the full cluster lifecycle - provisioning, upgrades, node pools, and retirement planning.
• Strong knowledge of AWS networking and security fundamentals: VPC, IAM, load balancers, and storage integrations.
• Hands-on experience with container deployment strategies and reliability engineering (autoscaling, resource tuning, scheduling).
• Practical automation skills using Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Experience setting up monitoring, logging, and alerting for containerized workloads.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes security practices - RBAC, policy enforcement, secrets management, image hardening.
• Bonus: Exposure to GitLab CI/CD pipelines for Kubernetes deployments.
• Bonus: Experience standardizing platforms or managing multiple clusters across teams.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical field.

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