Senior Kubernetes Platform Engineer
Job in
Lafayette, Lafayette Parish, Louisiana, 70595, USA
Listed on 2026-10-05
Listing for:
System One
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-10-05
Job specializations:
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IT/Tech
Systems Engineer, SRE/Site Reliability, Cloud Computing: Infrastructure & Operations
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Job Title: Senior Kubernetes Platform Engineer
Location: Lafayette, LA, Knoxville, TN, Columbia, SC, Birmingham, AL
Type: Direct Hire
- Own the full Kubernetes lifecycle — from cluster provisioning and upgrades to node management and deprecation planning — ensuring high availability and operational controls across all environments.
- Optimize networking, ingress, and secure traffic flows, implement workload reliability patterns such as autoscaling and resilience testing.
- Establish observability practices for metrics, logs, traces, and alerting to ensure platform reliability.
- Implement security best practices, including RBAC, policy enforcement, image controls, secrets management, and runtime hardening.
- Build platform automation using Infrastructure as Code and Git Ops workflows.
- Support incident response and troubleshoot performance issues for containerized production services.
- Manage multiple production Amazon EKS environments at scale, including provisioning, upgrades, and retirement planning.
- Configure and manage AWS networking and security components such as VPC, IAM, load balancers, and storage integrations.
- Implement container deployment strategies and reliability engineering practices like autoscaling, resource tuning, and scheduling.
- 5+ years experience in Dev Ops, SRE, or platform engineering, with significant hands-on Kubernetes production experience.
- Solid track record managing production Kubernetes environments, especially Amazon EKS, at scale.
- Experience owning the full cluster lifecycle — provisioning, upgrades, node pools, and retirement planning.
- Strong knowledge of AWS networking and security fundamentals: VPC, IAM, load balancers, and storage integrations.
- Hands-on experience with container deployment strategies and reliability engineering (autoscaling, resource tuning, scheduling).
- Practical automation skills using Terraform or Cloud Formation.
- Experience setting up monitoring, logging, and alerting for containerized workloads.
- Familiarity with Kubernetes security practices — RBAC, policy enforcement, secrets management, image hardening.
- Bonus:
Exposure to Git Lab CI/CD pipelines for Kubernetes deployments. - Bonus:
Experience standardizing platforms or managing multiple clusters across teams. - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical field.
Position Requirements
10+ Years
work experience
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