Kubernetes CICD Expert

Job Title: Kubernetes / CI/CD Expert

Location: Frisco TX (Onsite)
Duration: Contract

Job Description

We are seeking a highly skilled Kubernetes & CI/CD Expert with deep hands-on experience in building automating securing and operating enterprise-scale container platforms and software delivery pipelines in AWS environments. The ideal candidate will bring strong expertise in Amazon EKS GitOps ArgoCD/FluxCD Helm Terraform and modern CI/CD tooling such as Jenkins GitHub Actions GitLab CI/CD and Harness. This role requires strong production support capability troubleshooting depth across Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure and a solid understanding of secure reliable and scalable cloud-native delivery practices.

Key Responsibilities

• Design deploy administer upgrade and troubleshoot enterprise-scale Kubernetes platforms on AWS (Amazon EKS preferred) including cluster lifecycle management node groups autoscaling and platform hardening.
• Build manage and optimize end-to-end CI/CD pipelines for automated build test security scan release and deployment workflows across development test and production environments.
• Implement and operationalize GitOps-based deployment models using ArgoCD FluxCD or equivalent tools ensuring version-controlled auditable and repeatable releases.
• Develop and maintain reusable Helm charts Kubernetes manifests deployment templates and platform standards to support consistent workload onboarding.
• Manage and optimize containerized workloads using Docker and Kubernetes including resource tuning health probes workload isolation and resilience patterns.
• Implement modern deployment strategies including Rolling Blue-Green and Canary releases with rollback approval and progressive delivery controls.
• Design and enforce Kubernetes security controls including RBAC Network Policies Secrets Management image governance and Pod Security Standards aligned to DevSecOps practices.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and environment configuration using Terraform and related Infrastructure as Code practices.
• Troubleshoot complex issues across Kubernetes networking ingress service discovery persistent storage cluster performance container runtime and CI/CD toolchains.
• Collaborate with Development Platform Engineering Infrastructure and Security teams to improve deployment velocity platform reliability compliance and developer experience.
• Support production environments participate in incident resolution perform root-cause analysis and drive continuous improvement for platform stability and release quality.

Required Technical Skills

Kubernetes (Mandatory)

• Minimum 5 years of hands-on Kubernetes administration engineering and production support experience.
• Strong expertise in:
  • Kubernetes (Amazon EKS preferred)
  • Helm chart development and release packaging
  • Kubernetes networking services DNS ingress controllers and service exposure patterns
  • RBAC secrets management and Kubernetes security policies
  • StatefulSets persistent volumes storage classes and backup/recovery considerations
  • Cluster autoscaling workload scaling resource requests/limits and performance tuning
  • Multi-cluster or multi-environment deployment patterns
  • Service Mesh technologies such as Istio or Linkerd (preferred)

CI/CD (Mandatory)

Strong hands-on experience with:

• Jenkins
• GitHub Actions
• GitLab CI/CD
• Harness
• AWS CodePipeline / CodeBuild
• ArgoCD / FluxCD for GitOps-driven deployments

Deep understanding of:

• GitOps operating model and promotion workflows
• CI/CD pipeline architecture for build test scan package release and deploy stages
• Release automation and environment promotion controls
• Deployment automation with approval gates rollback and traceability
• Branching and release strategies supporting enterprise delivery models
• Blue-Green Canary and Rolling deployment patterns
• DevSecOps integration including security scanning policy enforcement and artifact governance

Containerization

• Docker
• Container registries such as Amazon ECR Artifactory or Docker Registry

Infrastructure as Code

• Terraform (Mandatory) for provisioning and managing cloud and platform infrastructure
• Helm for Kubernetes packaging and deployment standardization
• Ansible (Preferred) for configuration automation and operational workflows

Scripting & Automation

Strong automation experience using:

• Python for automation tooling and operational scripting
• Bash / Shell scripting for platform operations and deployment automation

Preferred Qualifications

• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
• Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)
• Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS)
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer

Experience

• 7 years of overall experience in DevOps Platform Engineering or related cloud infrastructure roles.
• 5 years of hands-on Kubernetes engineering and administration experience in production environments.
• 5 years of experience in designing implementing and supporting enterprise-grade CI/CD pipelines.
• Proven experience managing production Kubernetes environments at enterprise scale including high availability upgrades platform security and operational support.
• Strong troubleshooting capability across Kubernetes Linux containers AWS infrastructure networking and CI/CD platforms.

Note: Momento USA is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex pregnancy sexual orientation gender identity national origin age protected veteran status or disability status.