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Software Engineer - Kubernetes Jobs
Software Engineer - Kubernetes Jobs
Software Engineer - Kubernetes Jobs
clearancejobsHerndon, VA
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Software Engineer We are seeking a Software Engineer to help design, build, and evolve a Kubernetes-based container orchestration platform that supports secure, scalable, and automated workload deployment. This role spans the full software development lifecycle-from design and implementation to deployment and operations-with a strong emphasis on platform engineering, automation, and secure multi-tenant infrastructure. The ideal candidate enjoys working close to the infrastructure layer and building reusable, production-grade platform capabilities.
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Design and develop new platform capabilities on Kubernetes, including orchestration workflows, deployment automation, and operational tooling
- Build and maintain reusable deployment templates using Helm (or Kustomize) to support consistent and compliant application deployments
- Implement Kubernetes security controls including RBAC policies, role bindings, and least-privilege access models
- Design and manage namespace-based workload isolation to support multi-tenancy, compliance, and operational boundaries
- Develop and integrate CI/CD pipelines that support automated build, test, deploy, and rollback workflows (including GitOps and progressive delivery patterns)
- Instrument workloads with metrics, health checks, and observability standards to support monitoring and SLO adherence
- Collaborate with security, networking, cloud, and application teams to ensure platform requirements align with mission and operational needs
- Document platform architecture, deployment patterns, runbooks, and operational guardrails to enable consistency and self-service usage
Required Skills Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)
- Full lifecycle experience delivering software or platform capabilities on Kubernetes (design, build, test, deploy, operate)
- Experience building and maintaining Helm charts or Kustomize-based deployments
- Strong understanding of Kubernetes RBAC (roles, role bindings, and policy enforcement)
- Experience using namespaces for workload isolation and multi-tenancy support
- Experience building or supporting CI/CD pipelines integrated with Kubernetes environments
- Experience with automated deployment strategies such as GitOps or progressive delivery
Desired Skills Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience developing Kubernetes controllers or operators
- Experience with admission controllers or webhooks (mutating/validating) for policy enforcement and standardization
- Familiarity with service mesh technologies such as Istio (mTLS, traffic management, policy enforcement)
- Experience implementing Kubernetes network policies (CNI-based zero-trust segmentation)
- Experience supporting multi-tenant Kubernetes environments with strong isolation requirements
- Experience exposing and collecting workload metrics using Prometheus/Open
- Metrics standards
- Familiarity with AWS integrations such as IRSA (IAM Roles for Service Accounts)
- Experience integrating Kubernetes workloads with cloud-native services and identity systems
Additional Details
What we offer:
- Flexible time off
- Full medical coverage 401(k) with company match
- Referral bonuses
- Performance bonuses
- Life insurance and disability coverage
- Tuition and training reimbursement
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