3 months ago
Washington, DC, USASenior
Base Salary
$100k - $150k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design scalable workflows for deploying and managing Kubernetes-native applications across multi-tenant and multi-cluster environments.
- Lead development of reusable Helm charts, deployment strategies, and platform templates.
- Build custom Kubernetes controllers and operators using Go or Python to automate application lifecycle tasks.
- Design and implement event-driven or agent-based systems using Kafka, controller patterns, or equivalent technologies.
- Contribute to platform architecture decisions involving deployment strategy, multi-cluster configuration, and observability.
- Implement infrastructure automation with Terraform, cloud-init, Ansible, or equivalent tooling.
- Support GitOps pipeline design using ArgoCD, Fleet, or equivalent tools and contribute to CI/CD pipeline standards.
- Ensure containerized deployments meet DISA STIGs and program security policies, including secure secrets management and certificate lifecycle integration.
- Mentor junior and mid-level engineers, conduct code reviews, and guide design decisions and engineering tradeoffs.
- Help establish internal standards, shared tooling, and reusable component frameworks.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, with equivalent experience accepted in substitution.
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, primarily in cloud-native, Kubernetes-based, or distributed systems contexts.
- Active TS/SCI clearance with Full Scope Polygraph before consideration and prior to starting.
- Deep experience coding in Go and/or Python in cloud-native environments.
- Strong Kubernetes expertise, including CRDs, Helm, GitOps, and multi-tenant deployments.
- Experience with event-driven or agent-based systems, including Kafka or controller patterns.
- Familiarity with infrastructure automation tools such as Terraform and Ansible.
- Demonstrated ownership of end-to-end system component delivery and proven mentorship and technical leadership capability.
- Ability to balance automation with operator oversight in classified environments.
- Preferred experience with TypeScript, OpenShift, Rancher, service mesh technologies, observability tooling, AWS GovCloud, C2S/SC2S classified clouds, or cross-domain solutions.
- DoD 8140 IASAE Level II or III certification, such as CASP+ or CISSP, is desirable.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- Generous paid time off, company holidays, and parental and family leave.
- Life insurance, short- and long-term disability coverage, and accident protection.
- 401(k) retirement plans with company matching.
- Performance-based incentives and merit-based compensation reviews.
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