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Platform Engineer

Insight Global
Hampton, VA, United States
2 months ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Experienced
Experience required
3 years minimum
Compensation
$104,000.0 - $145,600.0
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source
dejobs.org

Tech stack

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Continuous Integration Linux Monitoring of Systems Prometheus Grafana Technical Debt SC Clearance Gitlab-ci Kubernetes Code Restructuring

Job description

This role operates and evolves a production Kubernetes platform in a cleared environment, using GitOps, CI/CD automation, and observability tooling to deploy, monitor, and harden containerized and stateful workloads while reducing technical debt and ensuring platform reliability.

Requirements

3+ years administering production Kubernetes clusters

Experience deploying apps with Helm, Kustomize, or Operators

Strong GitOps experience (ArgoCD, Flux, GitLab CI/CD)

Experience running stateful workloads on Kubernetes, including Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK)

CI/CD pipeline development for infrastructure-as-code

Monitoring and observability with Prometheus, Grafana, or similar tools

Solid Linux and container troubleshooting skills

Proven ability to identify and remediate technical debt (refactoring, upgrades, deprecated APIs)

Ability to work on-site per program requirements

Active Secret clearance

High school diploma or GED

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