Senior SRE - Platform - Kubernetes Engineer

Senior SRE - Platform - Kubernetes Engineer

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+)