Senior Kubernetes Platform Engineer
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Lifelink Healthtech LLC
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Job Details
Skills
- 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
Summary
We have 2 Location Chicago IL and Tempa, FL Only candidate need id proof with Linkedin
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
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- Dice Id: 91171196
- Position Id: Mike259
- Posted 3 days ago
Company Info
About Lifelink Healthtech LLC
Lifelink Healthtech is a global firm bringing on-demand talent, strategic workforce management, and IT consulting to Fortune 500 giants and growing businesses alike.
Our expert team works closely with you, helping you embrace change, adapt and scale through a highly tailored, strategy-based consulting approach.

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