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# Jr. Kubernetes Engineer

- **Company:** Shield Consulting Solutions
- **Location:** Anne Arundel County, MD, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Starter
- **Salary:** $160,000.0 - $170,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Bash Shell, Continuous Integration, Linux, Django Web Framework, Python (Programming Language), MySQL, SQL Databases, Web Applications, Scripting, Kubernetes Helm Charts, Git, Containerization, Gitlab-ci, Kubernetes, Atlassian Tools, Celery, Software Version Control, Docker
- **Published:** August 28, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/62a4ab43-c84d-453a-a73f-a60784567462

## About the Role

* 2 years of experience as a software engineer
 * Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline
 + 2 additional years of experience as a software engineer may be substituted for a degree, * Experience using the Linux CLI
 * Experience developing Bash/Python scripts
 * Experience developing with Python in a Linux environment
 * Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker
 * Experience with SQL technologies such as MySQL
 * Experience with designing and implementing REST interfaces
 * Experience with CI/CD principles, methodologies, and tools such as GitLab CI
 * Experience with Git Source Control System

Desired Experience:

 * Experience with the Atlassian Suite of Tools including Jira and Confluence
 * Experience with the Django Web framework
 * Experience with the Celery Task Scheduler
 * Familiar with container orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes
 * Familiar with creating Helm Charts to deploy containerized services on Kubernetes

## Description

* The Software Engineer shall be responsible for collaborating with Product Owners, System Engineers, and Project Software Engineers to design, develop, test, troubleshoot, and sustain a mission-focused enterprise web application deployed in a containerized Kubernetes Linux environment.


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