Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. MKS2 Technologies is a technology solutions company serving government agencies through cybersecurity, software engineering, and IT support services. The company is seeking a Senior Kubernetes Platform Administrator / Technical Lead to lead the engineering, operation, reliability, security, scalability, and automation of its enterprise Kubernetes platform on Amazon EKS. The role also involves mentoring engineers and collaborating with development, security, and platform teams.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the technical lead for the Brain Team, providing subject matter expertise in Kubernetes and networking concepts
- Design, deploy, maintain, and optimize production Kubernetes clusters on Amazon EKS
- Lead platform networking initiatives using Cilium and Istio, including service mesh, ingress, network policies, and traffic management
- Develop and maintain infrastructure using Terraform and AWS best practices
- Manage Kubernetes node lifecycle, autoscaling, and capacity planning using Karpenter
- Troubleshoot complex platform, networking, and application issues across distributed systems
- Collaborate with development, security, and platform teams to deliver secure, scalable platform capabilities
- Drive platform automation through GitOps, GitHub, and GitHub Actions
- Support the organization's FISMA High compliance objectives by implementing secure-by-default platform standards and operational controls
- Leverage AI-assisted development tools, including GitHub Copilot, to improve engineering productivity and platform automation
Skills
- 8+ years of infrastructure or platform engineering experience
- 5+ years administering production Kubernetes environments
- Strong experience with Amazon EKS, Kubernetes architecture, and Linux administration
- Deep understanding of Kubernetes networking with hands-on experience using Cilium and Istio
- Strong experience with Terraform and AWS infrastructure
- Experience implementing GitOps workflows using GitHub and GitHub Actions
- Experience leading technical initiatives and mentoring engineering teams
- Strong troubleshooting, communication, and collaboration skills
- Kubernetes certifications (CKA, CKS, CKAD)
- AWS or Terraform certifications
- Argo CD and Argo Rollouts
- Kyverno or Kubernetes policy management
- Secure CI/CD and Continuous ATO (cATO) pipelines
- Container security and vulnerability scanning (Aqua or similar)
- Platform engineering or internal developer portals
- DataDog, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, or other observability platforms
- Helm, Kustomize, Gateway API, or other cloud-native tooling
- AWS security and compliance frameworks, including experience supporting FISMA or other regulated environments
- On-call work (preferably with PagerDuty)
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