Kubernetes Platform Engineer

Location: Alpharetta, GA Salary: $65.00 USD Hourly - $70.00 USD Hourly Description: Job: Kubernetes Platform Experience

Duration: Contract to Hire

Location: Alpharetta, GA (Onsite 5 Days)
About the Role

We are seeking a Kubernetes Container Platform Engineer (PaaS & CaaS) to join our engineering team. This role focuses on Kubernetes platforms, infrastructure-as-code automation, and enabling self-service orchestration across enterprise environments.

You will be responsible for platform administration, onboarding, upgrades, and global standardization of container services. The role supports 20,000+ developers and DevOps teams, working within a small, agile group of highly skilled architects and engineers.
Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and operate container services platforms with CI/CD integration.
• Automate processes to improve efficiency and eliminate repetitive manual tasks.
• Diagnose, replicate, and resolve technical issues on PaaS and CaaS platforms.
• Develop reusable, maintainable software with a consumer-first mindset.
• Manage support requests, escalate unresolved issues, and collaborate with engineering teams.
• Document solutions and contribute to knowledgebase articles.

Desired Skills & Experience

• Strong programming/scripting skills (Go and Python preferred).
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code APIs (Swagger).
• Solid understanding of virtualization, hypervisors, and load balancing.
• Hands-on experience with identity, access, and certificate management.
• Familiarity with observability tools (Splunk, Fluentd/Fluentbit, PrometheGrafana, Wavefront, APPD).
• Knowledge of .NET Core/.NET Framework.
• Experience with policy engines (Open Policy Agent or similar).

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree + 3 years of experience OR advanced degree + 4 years of experience.
• Minimum 2 years building and maintaining container platforms (PAS/TAS, PKS/TKGI, OpenShift).
• Hands-on Kubernetes deployment experience on public cloud (Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Alibaba).
• Strong background in UNIX/Linux and Windows administration.
• Experience with configuration management across large-scale infrastructures.
• Networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, routing, subnetting).
• Familiarity with distributed systems and VMware virtualization.
• CI/CD tools (Concourse, Salt, Jenkins, Octopus Deploy, etc.).
• Version control systems (Git, GitHub, GitLab).
• Agile methodology experience.
• Bonus: NSX, NSX-T, Panorama, vSphere7 with TKG.
• DevOps background and strong communication skills.
• On-call support experience.

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