Sr Kubernetes Engineer

Sr Kubernetes Engineer

Mclean, VA for 12+ month extendable contract with 100% Remote

Top Skills' Details
1. Kubernetes & Kubernetes Governance (RBAC, Network Policy, Admission Control) experience
2. Familiarity with Kubernetes standards like CIS Benchmarks
3. Comfortable with assessing usage patterns for Kubernetes / cloud resources
4. Telemetry / Observability (especially for Kubernetes)
5. Familiarity with containerized application, build & deploy best practices
6. Nice to have- ECS experience
7. Python programming
Secondary Skills - Nice to Haves
Job Description
With Capital One's acquisition Discover Financial they are looking to move all of their applications off of OpenShift and onto Capital One's Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Services (EKS). Project is called "container runtime convergence"

Team will be responsible for
Looking for gaps in Kubernetes the Gap Analysis of additional controls will be due by May 2026
Enable applications that are being retained to run on EKS or EKS Fargate
Move into Capital One's AWS environment

Wants Engineers with Container experience to understand if they should be targeting EKS or EKS Fargate
What needs to be added to OpenShift to make it well governed
How DFS governs OpenShift and how Capital one wants to run it

1. Kubernetes & Kubernetes Governance (RBAC, Network Policy, Admission Control) experience
2. Familiarity with Kubernetes standards like CIS Benchmarks
3. Comfortable with assessing usage patterns for Kubernetes / cloud resources
4. Telemetry / Observability (especially for Kubernetes)
5. Familiarity with containerized application, build & deploy best practices
6. Nice to have- ECS experience
7. Python programming
Additional Skills & Qualifications
Metrics:
OpenShift environment assessment - replicate this
Looking at the environment and not the applications
Which applications will be retained haven't been completed yet
If keeping an app - deciding where it will go
Heard less than 100 applications but has not seen it in writing