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# Platform Engineer

- **Company:** Insight Global
- **Location:** Hampton, VA, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $104,000.0 - $145,600.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** 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
- **Published:** June 2, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/EDFADA5399AD430591723C05E786E802/job/

## About the Role

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

## 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.


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