External Title Senior Kubernetes Engineer

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Peraton is seeking an experienced Senior Kubernetes Engineer to support development, modernization, and migration of containerized and agentic workloads in a government multi-cloud environment with 70+ customer tenants and growing.

The applicant must have extensive engineering experience and deep Kubernetes and Azure expertise, including designing and leading implementation of container-platform requirements and architecture on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), as well as standing up and operating Agentic Runtime for Kubernetes (ARK) to host AI-agent workloads. The Senior Kubernetes Engineer will serve as a technical escalation point, drive root cause analysis on complex incidents, and provide mentorship and knowledge sharing across engineering teams.

A passion for performance, strong desire for quality conformance, and attention to detail are prerequisites for this position.

Location: Remote

Work Hours: This position requires working online from 8:00 AM Eastern to 5:00 PM Eastern

Day to Day

Roles and Responsibilities:

Incident Response and Troubleshooting

• Serve as the Tier 3 escalation point for complex incidents and outages across the Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and ARK agentic-runtime environment
• Lead investigation and resolution of issues across the Kubernetes stack including AKS clusters, the control plane, CNI networking, ingress, CSI storage, and workload scheduling, as well as the ARK control plane and its Custom Resources (Agents, Models, Teams, Tools, and Queries)
• Drive root cause analysis on high‑severity incidents and own implementation of solutions to prevent recurrence
• Manage high‑priority incident communications with stakeholders, leadership, and affected tenants

Platform Monitoring and Optimization

• Define and enforce observability standards across tenant clusters using Azure Monitor, Managed Prometheus, Container Insights, Azure Log Analytics, and Open Telemetry, including the agent‑level telemetry emitted by ARK
• Lead proactive identification and mitigation of cluster, node‑pool, and workload risks before they impact tenants
• Analyze performance, cost, and capacity trends and architect optimizations to improve stability, efficiency, and security at scale

Kubernetes and ARK Platform Engineering

• Lead management and maintenance of Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters and the ARK agentic runtime across a 70+ tenant environment
• Deploy, upgrade, and operate ARK on Kubernetes — managing its CRDs, controllers, and model and tool integrations (including MCP servers) to host AI agents declaratively and provider‑agnostically
• Ensure all tenant resources are secure, FedRAMP compliant, and continuously optimized, enforcing Kubernetes RBAC, network policy, and Azure workload identity
• Partner with the Architecture team to design solutions aligned with the Azure Well‑Architected Framework and Kubernetes best practices, and own and enforce Change Management procedures…