SRE - Kubernetes Engineer (10+ Year)

K&K Global Talent Solutions Inc. is an international recruiting agency that has been providing technical resources in the Canada and the USA region since 1993.

This position is with one of our clients in USA, who is actively hiring candidates to expand their teams.

 

Role:- Sr. SRE - Platform - Kubernetes Engineer (10+ Year)  

Location:- Remote (USA)

Fulltime

 

Job Description

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills:

•             10+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering 

•             Strong experience running Kubernetes in production (EKS, AKS, GKE, or upstream) 

•             Hands-on experience working in FedRAMP High and/or DoD IL5 environments 

•             Solid understanding of cloud infrastructure, Linux systems, and networking fundamentals 

•             Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred) 

•             Familiarity with CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, ArgoCD) 

•             Proficiency in scripting or programming (Python, Go) 

•             Experience building or operating observability platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK) 

•             Working knowledge of compliance frameworks (e.g., NIST 800-53, STIGs, RMF) 

Roles & Responsibilities:

•             Design, build, and operate production-grade Kubernetes platforms in regulated environments 

•             Improve system reliability through automation, thoughtful design, and continuous iteration 

•             Define and drive SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets to guide reliability decisions 

•             Build and evolve CI/CD pipelines that are secure, scalable, and easy to use 

•             Implement robust observability (metrics, logs, traces) to make systems understandable and actionable 

•             Reduce operational toil by automating repetitive processes and improving workflows 

•             Partner with security and compliance teams to meet FedRAMP High and IL5 requirements without sacrificing developer velocity 

•             Support ATO processes, including documentation, controls implementation, and audit readiness Confidential 

•             Participate in on-call rotations supporting customer requests and paging alerts 

•             Participate in incident response, blameless postmortems, and continuous improvement efforts 

•             Help shape a platform that engineers enjoy using 

Nice to Have 

•             Experience with service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd) 

•             Familiarity with policy-as-code (OPA/Gatekeeper, Kyverno) 

•             Experience with GitOps workflows 

•             Exposure to multi-cluster or hybrid cloud architectures 

•             Knowledge of FIPS-compliant systems or DoD Cloud SRG 

•             Relevant certifications (CKA, CKS, cloud provider certs, Security+)