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Systems Engineer - IV (Pipeline Architecture)

HonorVet TechnologiesKirkland, WA🇺🇸United StatesPosted 8 Jul 2026

Quick Overview

Work Type
Hybrid
Level
Mid Senior

Job Description

HonorVet Technologies is a Service Disable Veteran-Owned IT staffing firm, ISO 9001, and ISO 27001 certified, working with federal agencies, state governments, and Fortune 500 enterprise clients across the US. What makes us different isn''t a tagline; it''s the way we work. We don''t forward resumes and hope for the best. We take the time to understand where a professional like you are headed and only reach out when we genuinely believe there''s a fit worth exploring. I came across your profile, and something stood out.
 
Job Title: Systems Engineer - IV (Pipeline Architecture)
Location: Flexible (Hybrid) - 2-3 days in the office at San Diego, CA or Kirkland, WA office.
Duration: 12 months to start with the possibility of extension

Overview:
This Staff Systems Engineer role owns strategy and execution for client''s critical developer platforms, including enterprise GitLab supporting 3,000+ users and JFrog Artifactory. The role leads cloud-native transformation, mentors team members, and establishes technical direction for platform engineering.

What You Will Do:
  • Own operational strategy and technical direction for GitLab and Artifactory platforms
  • Lead cloud-native transformations, Kubernetes migrations, and GitOps adoption
  • Drive architecture for multi-region high-availability deployments and active-active patterns
  • Design self-healing systems with automated remediation and chaos engineering practices
  • Establish cloud-native best practices, including 12-factor apps, containerization, and observability
  • Mentor team members on automation patterns and cloud-native architectures
  • Influence organizational standards for platform engineering and developer experience
  • Evaluate emerging technologies, including AI-assisted operations, eBPF, and service mesh
  • Define and track SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs with a continuous improvement focus
Skills: Required:
  • BS in computer science or equivalent experience
  • 7+ years operating and architecting enterprise-scale platforms
  • 5+ years of self-managed GitLab experience, including Geo, high availability, and disaster recovery
  • 5+ years of Artifactory experience, including Hub/Edge, federation, and enterprise deployments
  • 3+ years of deep Kubernetes experience, including operators, CRDs, service mesh, and multi-cluster environments
  • 7+ years of expert Linux experience, including kernel, networking, and performance tuning
  • PostgreSQL high availability experience, such as Patroni, and advanced networking knowledge, including BGP, anycast, and zero-trust architectures
Additional Requirements:
Cloud-Native Expertise
  • Deep knowledge of cloud computing, infrastructure, and architecture patterns
  • Experience with major cloud providers, including AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform, and their managed services
  • Experience with cloud-native tooling, including Kubernetes operators, Helm, ArgoCD, and Flux
  • Experience with service mesh technologies, including Istio, and infrastructure-as-code tools, including Terraform
  • Experience with cloud-native observability, including Prometheus, and distributed tracing
  • Experience with cloud-native security, including OPA, Trivy, and SBOM practices
  • Production-grade automation experience with Python, Go, and Bash
  • CI/CD platform design experience at scale
  • Experience with FedRAMP IL4/IL5
  • Proven mentorship and team development experience
  • Strong communication and cross-team influence skills
  • Growth mindset, humility, and commitment to continuous development
Preferred
  • Open-source contributions to Kubernetes, GitLab, or Artifactory projects
  • Experience with eBPF observability/security, WebAssembly, or MLOps
  • Published technical writing or conference talks
  • Developer platform or platform-as-a-service experience
  • SRE practices and chaos engineering experience.

Skills

AWS
MLOps
Service Mesh
ArgoCD
Azure
Bash
Google Cloud
Helm
Istio
Kubernetes
PostgreSQL
Prometheus
Python
Terraform
WebAssembly

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