Job Description

Mid, Senior Kubernetes Administrator

Location: Newport News, VA — full-time onsite

Clearance: U.S. citizenship and an active Secret clearance

Job Description

We are seeking experienced Integration Kubernetes Administrators with in-depth knowledge of the entire software development life-cycle.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain Kubernetes-based integration and test environments deployed across multiple environments.
• Ensure environment stays in configuration managed state and does not exhibit configuration drift from established baselines.
• Ensure inclusion of Cyber Security in the full DevOps deployment pipeline and ensure test environment has all patches applied when they are available.
• Strong background in Kubernetes administration and maintenance.
• Understanding of the importance of monitoring in a test and integration environment.
• Understanding of the importance of configuration management in a test environment.
• Ensure high availability of test and integration environment.
• Manage change requests between development, staging, and production environments
• Exhibit a positive attitude, a high level of initiative, and must enjoy the challenge of bringing structured notional software solutions to ill-defined environments
• Interface with multiple, geographically-disbursed development teams and effectively communicate project statuses and barriers

Basic Qualifications

• Experience with AWS and on-prem Kubernetes deployments
• Experience with Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Simple Storage Service (S3), Elastic Block Storage (EBS) and Application Load Balancer (ALB)
• Experience with virtual machine environments (VMware/Broadcom)
• Experience with Ansible, Packer, Terraform implementations
• Experience with containers and container orchestration
• Working knowledge of Unix/Linux (RHEL 9) system administration
• Attention to detail coupled with the ability to quickly learn new procedures with minimal supervision
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to operate in a team environment.
• Experience with cross-platform management (Windows and Unix/Linux data exchange)
• Experience setting up and managing Kubernetes clusters in production for high availability systems
• Experience with CI/CD pipeline (Jenkins, GitOps pipeline)
• Ability to work full-time in the Newport News, VA office.
• U.S. citizenship and an active Secret clearance.

Preferred Qualifications

• Certified Kubernetes Administrator
• Certified AWS Administrator
• Experience as an operator or administrator of an enterprise joint command-and-control system
• Intel experience
• Experience with
• Big Bang, ArgoCD, FluxCD implementations
• Zarf and Helm-based deployments
• Container image signing (OCI, Cosign, SigStore, Zarf)
• Red Hat UBI base image / Iron Bank hardened components
• Secret management (External Secrets Operator, secret references)
• Certificate management (Istio service-mesh certificates, CRL distribution)
• Dynamic security policy enforcement
• Audit & logging (log management, log analysis/visualization)
• Service mesh (Istio, Zero-Trust mode)
• Experience with RKE2