Senior Kubernetes Engineer

McLean, MD - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 14 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

About Infinitive
Infinitive is a data and AI consultancy that enables its clients to modernize monetize and operationalize their data to create lasting and substantial value. We possess deep industry and technology expertise to drive and sustain adoption of new capabilities. We match our people and personalities to our clients culture while bringing the right mix of talent and skills to enable high return on investment.

Infinitive has been named Best Small Firms to Work For by Consulting Magazine 8 times most recently in 2025. Infinitive has also been named a Washington Post Top Workplace Washington Business Journal Best Places to Work and Virginia Business Best Places to Work.

We are seeking an analytical and detail-oriented Business/Data Analyst to join our team focusing specifically on data access governance permissible use and risk remediation. This role is critical in ensuring our data usage practices comply with both internal policies and external regulatory requirements providing essential analytical support for major audits and helping to shape the future of our data governance strategy.

Role Summary
The Senior Kubernetes Engineer is responsible for designing implementing and maintaining a fully isolated enterprise-grade Kubernetes environment that replicates a top 5 US banks application and infrastructure landscape. The environment must be configurable and deployable end-to-end via scripts with no external runtime dependencies to support secure scenario execution testing and experimentation across multiple systems and services.
Key Responsibilities

Architecture & Design

Design a Kubernetes-based reference architecture that mirrors the banks multi-tier microservices data and network topology in a fully isolated environment.
Define patterns for stateless and stateful workloads storage networking and security that align with banking-grade resilience performance and compliance expectations.
Establish a single-command or fully scripted bootstrap process for cluster creation configuration and teardown (e.g. using Helm Kustomize Terraform/infra-as-code and Kubernetes manifests).

Environment Replication & Isolation

Model core banking payments digital channels and integration layers as containerized workloads including supporting services (databases message queues APIs batch jobs).
Implement strict network segmentation zero-trust policies and namespace/tenant isolation to emulate production controls while ensuring complete separation from live systems and data.
Create synthetic data generation and masking strategies so scenarios can run with realistic but non-production data.

Automation & Script-Driven Operations

Build fully automated scripts/pipelines for:
- Provisioning Kubernetes clusters and underlying infrastructure.
- Deploying all application components dependencies and configuration from source control.
- Executing and resetting scenarios test suites and performance runs.
Ensure the entire environment (infrastructure apps config) is reproducible from code with no interactive/manual steps.

Security Compliance & Governance

Implement security best practices for secrets management RBAC admission controls policy-as-code and audit logging suitable for highly regulated financial institutions.
Integrate compliance checks (e.g. image scanning configuration policies vulnerability scanning) into the environment build and deployment scripts.
Work closely with security risk and compliance teams to align the replicated environment with relevant standards and internal controls.

Performance Reliability & Observability

Define and tune resource requests/limits autoscaling policies and resilience patterns (readiness/liveness probes pod disruption budgets etc.).
Implement full observability (metrics logs traces dashboards and alerts) to monitor scenarios and environment health.
Conduct benchmarking and capacity planning to ensure the environment can support realistic load and stress scenarios.

Collaboration & Documentation

Partner with application teams platform engineering and architecture to understand production designs and translate them into the replicated environment.
Document the target architecture deployment runbooks configuration standards and scenario execution guides for technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Provide knowledge transfer and training to internal teams on maintaining and extending the replicated environment.

Required Qualifications

Extensive hands-on experience designing and operating Kubernetes in large complex enterprises (financial services experience strongly preferred).
Deep knowledge of:
- Kubernetes primitives (Deployments StatefulSets DaemonSets Services Ingress NetworkPolicies).
- Infrastructure-as-code and GitOps practices.
- Container security and secrets management.
Proven experience building fully automated script-driven environments with minimal or no manual steps.
Strong understanding of enterprise networking security controls and isolation patterns (e.g. service mesh zero-trust multi-tenancy).
Familiarity with regulated industry requirements (e.g. banking/financial services security and compliance expectations).

Preferred Qualifications

Experience replicating or modeling production-like environments for testing DR or sandbox purposes in a bank or large financial institution.
Background in CI/CD test automation and performance testing within containerized environments.
Experience interfacing with risk audit and compliance stakeholders to design defensible technical controls.

Required Experience:

Senior IC

About InfinitiveInfinitive is a data and AI consultancy that enables its clients to modernize monetize and operationalize their data to create lasting and substantial value. We possess deep industry and technology expertise to drive and sustain adoption of new capabilities. We match our people and p...

Design a Kubernetes-based reference architecture that mirrors the banks multi-tier microservices data and network topology in a fully isolated environment.
Define patterns for stateless and stateful workloads storage networking and security that align with banking-grade resilience performance and compliance expectations.
Establish a single-command or fully scripted bootstrap process for cluster creation configuration and teardown (e.g. using Helm Kustomize Terraform/infra-as-code and Kubernetes manifests).