[Hiring] Kubernetes Admin/Engineer @Huntridge Labs, LLC

Role Description

• Manage Kubernetes node lifecycle, autoscaling, and capacity planning.
• Troubleshoot complex platform, networking, and application issues across distributed systems.
• Collaborate with development, security, and platform teams to deliver secure, scalable platform capabilities.
• Drive platform automation through GitOps, GitHub, and GitHub Actions.
• Support the organization's FISMA High compliance objectives by implementing secure-by-default platform standards and operational controls.
• Leverage AI-assisted development tools, including GitHub Copilot, to improve engineering productivity and platform automation.
• On-call support.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of infrastructure or platform engineering experience.
• 3+ years administering production Kubernetes environments.
• Strong experience with Amazon EKS, Kubernetes architecture, and Linux administration.
• Kubernetes networking including ingress, network policies and traffic management.
• Deep understanding of Kubernetes networking with hands-on experience using Cilium and Istio.
• Strong experience with Terraform and AWS infrastructure.
• Experience with Linux AMI/Container security and lifecycle management.
• Experience implementing GitOps workflows using GitHub and GitHub Actions.
• Strong troubleshooting, communication, and collaboration skills.

Requirements

• AWS or Terraform certifications.
• Work on FISMA High or similar environments.
• Experience with Argo CD and Argo Rollouts.
• Experience with Kyverno and Kro.
• Secure CI/CD and Continuous ATO (cATO) pipelines.
• Container security and vulnerability scanning (Aqua or similar).
• Platform engineering or internal developer portals.
• DataDog, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, or other observability platforms.
• Helm, Kustomize, Kro, or other cloud-native abstraction tooling.
• AWS security and compliance frameworks, including experience supporting FISMA or other regulated environments.
• Experience with PagerDuty.

Benefits

• Salary range - $110-115k per year.