Senior Kubernetes Platform Engineer

Lafayette, Louisiana

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Type: Direct-Hire

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.
Requirements
  • 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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