Kubernetes Engineer at Leidos Colorado Springs

Salary: $131,300 - $237,350 per year.

• U.S. citizenship and a current active DoD Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility.
• A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, STEM, or IT with 12+ years of relevant experience, or a master’s degree with 10+ years of relevant experience; additional experience may substitute for a degree.
• At least 8 years of professional experience as a Kubernetes Engineer, including designing and building distributed systems for mid‑to‑large scale enterprises.
• At least 2 years of site reliability engineering experience.
• One of the following credentials, or an equivalent certification:
  Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD), or Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate (KCNA).
• Prefer a master’s degree in Computer Science.
• Prefer advanced experience with Azure AKS.
• Prefer familiarity with hybrid IaaS and external cloud integrations.
• Prefer experience with infrastructure design using cloud‑native storage, networking, and security patterns.

• Secure and configure containerized services orchestrated with Kubernetes and the surrounding platform.
• Tune cluster performance, investigate issues using service and traffic metrics, and build monitoring and alerting dashboards.
• Lead lifecycle management for all containerized services supporting software development.
• Troubleshoot containerized services and produce root cause analyses and post‑mortems for broader teams.
• Establish service level objectives and other SRE metrics.
• Manage north‑south and east‑west traffic to keep critical containerized services available.
• Ensure the Kubernetes environment is patched, properly configured, right‑sized, and able to scale without over provisioning.
• Design, secure, deploy, and manage the Kubernetes environment supporting multiple product teams and users across development, staging, production, and higher‑classification environments.
• Design and maintain highly available Kubernetes clusters across cloud and on‑premises environments.
• Automate provisioning, monitoring, and scaling through infrastructure as code and CI/CD pipelines.
• Develop and maintain Helm charts for application deployment and configuration management.
• Deploy and operate applications on cloud platforms including Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
• Monitor and resolve issues with Kubernetes workloads, networking, and persistent storage.
• Implement Kubernetes security controls such as RBAC, network policies, and container runtime protections.
• Improve the performance and reliability of containerized applications in distributed systems.
• Collaborate with development, security, and operations teams to strengthen Dev Ops workflows and cloud‑native delivery.
• Integrate Kubernetes with service meshes and observability tools such as Istio, Prometheus, Grafana, and the ELK Stack.
• Participate in system upgrades, disaster recovery planning, and compliance efforts including NIST, CIS Benchmarks, and FedRAMP.
• Mentor junior engineers and share knowledge across the organization.

• AWS
• Azure
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• Dev Ops
• ELK
• Grafana
• Helm
• IaaS
• Istio
• Kubernetes
• Network
• Oracle
• Prometheus
• RBAC
• Security
• Support

This onsite role is based in Colorado Springs and supports the U.S. Space Forces Space Systems Command Operational Command and Control Acquisition Delta program, known as Kobayashi Maru. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, including health and wellness programs, income protection, paid leave, and retirement. We maintain a strong commitment to equal opportunity and non‑discrimination.