Kubernetes Platform Engineer

5+ years of experience in the development of tools and processes to drive DevOps or DevSecOps maturity by automating builds, testing, monitoring, and pushing releases across environments

5+ years of experience with OOP scripting or programming languages and Kubernetes

5+ years of experience automating infrastructure provisioning with tools

5+ years of experience with configuration management tools and automating CI/CD pipelines

Experience developing enterprise cloud-native solutions and hosting applications on commercial cloud providers

Experience managing, administrating, configuring, deploying, and maintaining environments and system integration tools, including Kubernetes, Rancher, Harbor, Helm, Longhorn, or Rook-Ceph

Experience ingesting and displaying metrics and data sources using dashboarding tools such as Grafana, Dynatrace, or Datadog

Experience working with application development teams across the software development lifecycle and creating solutions to complex problems within a collaborative team environment

Ability to obtain a security clearance

Bachelor's degree or 8+ years of experience in DevOps in lieu of a degree

Experience with tools such as CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible, Chef, or Puppet

Experience with cloud solutions or providers such as AWS, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, and GCP

Experience working with Site Reliability Engineering concepts, principals, and best practices

Experience triaging and resolving issues related to both open source and commercial tools in public cloud environments

Experience automating CI/CD pipelines with tools such as Jenkins or GitLab

Experience with containerization and container orchestration platforms with tools such as Docker and Kubernetes

Knowledge of scripting languages such as Python and Linux Shell Script

Knowledge of common build tools such as Maven, Gradle, and NPM

Eligibility Requirements:

Candidate MUST satisfy 80% of job requirements to submit resume. Candidates who are clearly unqualified (less than 60% skill match), or lacks legal work status will be rejected & reported.

SORRY, NO CORPORATE TO CORPORATE (CORP. 2 CORP. / C2C) APPLICANTS will be considered for this position. Candidates must be willing to work on Virpie or client's W2.

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