Remote Kubernetes Engineer

Summary

Join our team as a Kubernetes Engineer and support Air Force Platform One and Air Mobility Command in ensuring high uptime for their chat operations. Design, build, and run elastic, cost-effective, resilient, robust, and secure architectures in the cloud using modern approaches like service-mesh and loosely coupled design.

Requirements

• Possesses and applies expertise on multiple complex tasks
• Tasks may be broad in nature, requiring originality and innovation in determining how to accomplish tasks
• Operate with appreciable latitude in developing methodology and presenting solutions to problems
• Contributes to deliverables and perform metrics where applicable
• Demonstrated knowledge in the following: Kubernetes, Istio, GitOps, Custo Kubernetes Operators, Custom Helm charts, Custom Admission Controllers, Custom CRDs, Custom Controllers
• Extensive knowledge of Linux and network. Extensive experience with Kubernetes and containers. Understand each component of Kubernetes control plane
• Understand Istio. Have security and compliance knowledge for Kubernetes
• Experience in building automation and configuration management tools (e.g. Ansible, Terraform)
• Knowledge of Cloud (AWS, Azure, oci, et.). Worked with common infrastructure tools like Docker, Terraform, and Helm
• Experience working with a product that has end-users
• Have a software development background
• Have a CKA Certification
• Creating and maintaining documentation for implementations
• Ability to obtain a Secret clearance

Responsibilities

• Assist the 24x7x365 team in ensuring that Mattermost is operational at all times
• Work on innovative R&D tasks while there are no active support requests
• Possesses and applies expertise on multiple complex tasks
• Tasks may be broad in nature, requiring originality and innovation in determining how to accomplish tasks
• Operate with appreciable latitude in developing methodology and presenting solutions to problems
• Contributes to deliverables and perform metrics where applicable

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated knowledge in one or more of the following: Go, React, Docker
• Preferred: Gitlab, AWS, Kubernetes, SQL (Postgres or MySQL)

Benefits

• 401K with 100% matching up to 6%
• Highly competitive PTO
• Great health insurance with large network of providers
• Medical/Dental/Vision
• Life Insurance, and short & long term disability
• Industry-Leading Weekly Pay Schedule
• Home office & equipment plan