Principal Cloud Kubernetes Engineer

8 days ago

Boston, MA, USAStaff+

Base Salary

$140k - $206k/yr

Responsibilities

Define the Kubernetes platform roadmap, cloud-native strategy, reference architectures, standards, and technical direction.
Architect, deploy, operate, and govern enterprise Kubernetes platforms across multi-cluster, multi-region, multi-cloud, and on-premises environments.
Lead cluster lifecycle management, multi-tenancy, networking, storage, security baselines, and platform governance.
Develop reusable Terraform modules, Helm charts, Kubernetes operators, controllers, GitOps workflows, and self-service provisioning capabilities.
Architect cloud infrastructure modernization, workload migrations, disaster recovery, backup, business continuity, and platform resiliency strategies.
Establish observability standards, reliability objectives, SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting, and resiliency testing programs.
Lead Kubernetes security architecture, policy-as-code, identity, secrets management, zero-trust, software supply chain security, and compliance initiatives.
Serve as the senior Kubernetes and platform engineering subject matter expert, lead architecture reviews, mentor engineers, and guide cross-functional initiatives.

12+ years of infrastructure, cloud engineering, DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering experience.
7+ years of hands-on Kubernetes experience in production environments.
Expertise designing and operating enterprise-scale Kubernetes platforms and understanding Kubernetes control planes, scheduling, networking, service discovery, storage, and security.
Strong experience with AWS, Azure, and/or GCP, GitOps tools and practices, Terraform, Infrastructure as Code, service meshes, CNI implementations, and eBPF technologies.
Strong programming experience with Go, Python, or similar languages, plus experience building platform automation, operators, controllers, or Kubernetes extensions.
Experience with enterprise identity integration using OIDC, SAML, LDAP, and cloud-native identity services.
Preferred experience includes Rancher, Spectro Cloud Palette, Crossplane, Backstage, internal developer platforms, OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, software supply chain security, regulated environments, and Kubernetes or CNCF open-source communities.
Preferred certifications include CKA, CKS, CKAD, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional, AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional, Google Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer, Azure DevOps Engineer Expert, HashiCorp Terraform Associate, Linux Foundation Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist, and CNCF Kubestronaut Program Certifications.

Medical, vision, and dental insurance.
Short-term and long-term disability and life insurance.
401(k) profit-sharing contribution.
Paid time off and holidays.
Parental leave.
Tuition reimbursement.
The posting states that other compensation may include a discretionary annual variable target incentive.

1,001-5,000 employees