Senior Kubernetes Platform Engineer

Duration: 6 Months

Work Address: Chicago IL or Tempe AZ

Education:

• Bachelors Degree

Required Skills:

• Strong hands-on experience supporting Kubernetes in Production
• Solid understanding of Kubernetes fundamentals including:
  o Pods Deployments StatefulSets
  o Services and Ingress
  o Namespaces RBAC ConfigMaps and Secrets
• Experience troubleshooting Kubernetes networking scheduling and resource issues
• Experience operating Kubernetes on enterprise platforms (VMware Tanzu)
• Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting skills
• Familiarity with container runtimes and container images
• Experience working in highly regulated production environments
• Comfortable participating in on-call rotations and handling time-sensitive issues
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to work independently

Desired Skills:

• Scripting experience (Bash Python) for operational automation
• Prior experience supporting large multi-cluster Kubernetes environments

Responsibilities:

• Support day-to-day operations of an enterprise Kubernetes platform (100 clusters 50% production)
• Perform routine operational tasks including cluster maintenance upgrades patching health checks and capacity management
• Troubleshoot and resolve Kubernetes platform issues impacting cluster or application availability
• Participate in incident response root-cause analysis and post-incident reviews
• Act as a backup platform engineer to enable on-call rotation and reduce key-person dependency
• Provide after-hours support as part of a shared on-call rotation
• Serve as a secondary escalation point for critical Production issues
• Assist internal application teams with Kubernetes-related questions and issues
• Support common Kubernetes constructs such as Pods Deployments Services Ingress ConfigMaps and Secrets
• Help teams troubleshoot networking DNS ingress certificate and resource-related issues
• Review application configurations for Kubernetes best practices and platform alignment
• Work with integrated enterprise tools such as:
  o Ingress controllers (e.g. Contour / Envoy)
  o Logging platforms (e.g. Fluent Bit centralized log aggregation)
  o Monitoring/observability tools (e.g. Dynatrace or similar)
  o Container registries (e.g. Harbor JFrog etc)
• Help document operational procedures runbooks and troubleshooting guides
• Share Kubernetes knowledge and best practices with internal teams
• Assist in improving platform resiliency operational maturity and supportability