Senior Kubernetes Platform Engineer
Lafayette, Louisiana
Experience: 5
Category: Information Technology
Contractor Work Model: Hybrid
Brand: System One
Compensation Range: 89600.00 - 123200.00
Job ID: 380582
Date Posted: 09/22/2026
Shortcut: http://jobs.systemone.com/IDguFc
Job Title: Senior Kubernetes Platform Engineer
Location: Lafayette, LA, Knoxville, TN, Columbia, SC, Birmingham, AL
Type: Direct Hire
Responsibilities
- Own the full Kubernetes lifecycle — from cluster provisioning and upgrades to node management and deprecation planning — ensuring high availability and operational controls across all environments.
- Optimize networking, ingress, and secure traffic flows, implement workload reliability patterns such as autoscaling and resilience testing.
- Establish observability practices for metrics, logs, traces, and alerting to ensure platform reliability.
- Implement security best practices, including RBAC, policy enforcement, image controls, secrets management, and runtime hardening.
- Build platform automation using Infrastructure as Code and GitOps workflows.
- Support incident response and troubleshoot performance issues for containerized production services.
- Manage multiple production Amazon EKS environments at scale, including provisioning, upgrades, and retirement planning.
- Configure and manage AWS networking and security components such as VPC, IAM, load balancers, and storage integrations.
- Implement container deployment strategies and reliability engineering practices like autoscaling, resource tuning, and scheduling.
- 5+ years experience in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering, with significant hands-on Kubernetes production experience.
- Solid track record managing production Kubernetes environments, especially Amazon EKS, at scale.
- Experience owning the full cluster lifecycle — provisioning, upgrades, node pools, and retirement planning.
- Strong knowledge of AWS networking and security fundamentals: VPC, IAM, load balancers, and storage integrations.
- Hands-on experience with container deployment strategies and reliability engineering (autoscaling, resource tuning, scheduling).
- Practical automation skills using Terraform or CloudFormation.
- Experience setting up monitoring, logging, and alerting for containerized workloads.
- Familiarity with Kubernetes security practices — RBAC, policy enforcement, secrets management, image hardening.
- Bonus: Exposure to GitLab CI/CD pipelines for Kubernetes deployments.
- Bonus: Experience standardizing platforms or managing multiple clusters across teams.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical field.
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