Senior Kubernetes Platform Engineer

Job Title: Senior Kubernetes Platform Engineer

Duration:  6 Months

Work Address: Chicago, IL or Tempe, AZ

Pay Rate: $79.31 - $80/hr

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