5 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.
- On-site SCIF position at Fort Meade, Maryland; benefits may vary by region, department, and role.
Tech Stack
About Kroll
Kroll provides risk and financial advisory services, including valuation, corporate finance, restructuring, investigations, cyber risk, and compliance, to enterprises, financial institutions and law firms. It earns fees for advisory, due diligence, disputes, and agency/trustee services across global capital markets. Founded in 1972 and headquartered in New York, the firm operates internationally and is known for complex valuations and forensic investigations.