Kubernetes Engineer

Overview

Remote
$60 - $70 per hour
Contract - W2

Skills

Kubernetes Engineer

Job Details



Kubernetes Engineer


W2 Contract


Salary Range: $124,800 - $145,600 per year


Location: Austin, TX - Remote Role


Duties and Responsibilities:



  • Architect, deploy, and manage large-scale Kubernetes clusters on-prem and across multiple public clouds.

  • Design and operate hybrid Kubernetes control planes with federation and workload portability between clouds and data centers.

  • Implement advanced cluster lifecycle management (upgrades, scaling, backup/restore, multi-region DR) using tools like Cluster API, Rancher, Anthos, or OpenShift.

  • Engineer multi-tenancy, RBAC, and policy enforcement (OPA/Gatekeeper, Kyverno) for secure workloads.

  • Automate infrastructure provisioning with Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD, and GitOps pipelines.

  • Enhance observability with Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, ELK, and distributed tracing.

  • Optimize cluster networking (CNI: Calico, Cilium, Istio service mesh) and storage (Ceph, Portworx, EBS, Azure Disk, Google Cloud Platform PD).

  • Troubleshoot critical production issues (etcd, kube-apiserver, kubelet, DNS, ingress controllers) and lead RCA for outages.

  • Drive SRE practices: SLOs/SLIs, chaos testing, auto-scaling, cost-optimization across hybrid environments.

  • Mentor junior engineers on Kubernetes best practices, cloud-native design, and distributed systems reliability.


Requirements and Qualifications:



  • 5+ years of hands-on Kubernetes engineering in production environments.

  • Expertise with hybrid and multi-cloud Kubernetes (on-prem + AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform).

  • Deep understanding of cluster internals (etcd, control plane, scheduling, kube-proxy, CNI, CSI).

  • Strong background in SRE, reliability engineering, and large-scale distributed systems.

  • Proficiency with automation frameworks (Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD, GitOps).

  • Familiarity with service mesh, policy-as-code, and advanced cluster security.



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