Locations: Sandy Springs, GA (Onsite 2 Days/Week)
Duration: Contract
Job Description: 
We’re seeking a hands-on Kubernetes Engineer to build, operate, and evolve container platforms that power business-critical applications. You’ll work closely with application teams and operations to deliver secure, reliable, and cost efficient Kubernetes (EKS/AKS/GKE or upstream) environments, with a strong focus on automation, observability, and platform resilience.
What You’ll Do:
*	Design & Operate Clusters: Plan, deploy, and manage highly available Kubernetes clusters (cloud-managed or self-managed), including multi-cluster architectures and multi-tenant isolation.
*	Platform Engineering: Implement GitOps workflows (Argo CD/Flux), manage Helm charts, and curate golden/base images and templates for repeatable, secure app onboarding.
*	Networking & Security: Configure CNI (Calico/Cilium), Ingress/Service mesh (Istio/Linkerd), TLS, RBAC, and policy-as-code (OPA/Gatekeeper/Kyverno). Integrate secrets management (e.g., Vault/KMS).
*	Scalability & Performance: Tune autoscaling (HPA/VPA/KEDA, Cluster Autoscaler), right-size workloads, and optimize node pools and runtime parameters for throughput and cost.
*	Storage & Data: Manage persistent volumes and CSI drivers; support stateful workloads, backup/restore (Velero), and disaster recovery strategies.
*	CI/CD & Automation: Build and maintain pipelines (GitHub Actions/Jenkins/Azure DevOps), IaC (Terraform), and reusable modules for cluster lifecycle (provisioning, upgrades, patching).
*	Observability: Establish end-to-end monitoring and tracing (Prometheus/Grafana/Alertmanager, OpenTelemetry), centralized logging (ELK/OpenSearch), SLO/SLI dashboards, and actionable alerts.
*	Reliability & Operations: Lead incident response and postmortems; drive reliability improvements, performance baselines, capacity planning, and upgrade playbooks.
*	Security & Compliance: Enforce container and image security (Trivy, Aqua, Prisma Cloud), vulnerability remediation, admission controls, and compliance reporting.
*	Developer Enablement: Partner with teams to containerize applications, troubleshoot deployments, and champion Kubernetes best practices and guardrails.
*	Documentation & Knowledge Sharing: Author runbooks, standards, and architecture diagrams; mentor peers and evangelize platform engineering practices.
Required Qualifications:
*	5–7 years overall in platform/DevOps/SRE roles with 3+ years’ operating Kubernetes in production.
*	Proficiency with Docker/OCI, Helm, GitOps (Argo CD or Flux), and one or more service meshes (Istio/Linkerd).
*	Hands-on with at least one cloud: AWS (EKS), Azure (AKS), or Google Cloud (GKE); solid understanding of managed control planes and cloud networking.
*	Strong Infrastructure as Code skills (Terraform preferred) and CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or Azure DevOps).
*	Solid Linux fundamentals, container runtime internals, networking (L3/L4/L7), and security (RBAC, OPA/Gatekeeper/Kyverno, secrets mgmt.).
*	Experience with observability stacks (Prometheus/Grafana/Alert manager, Open Telemetry) and centralized logging (ELK/OpenSearch).
*	Scripting in Python, Go, or Bash for automation and tooling.
*	Demonstrated ownership of cluster upgrades, break/fix, performance tuning, and cost optimization.
*	Clear, concise communication skills and the ability to collaborate with cross functional teams in a customer-facing environment.
*	Ability to be onsite 2 days/week at the Customer’s Atlanta office.
Preferred/Nice to Have:
*	Certifications: CKA, CKAD, CKS.
*	Experience with Kubernetes security tooling (e.g., Trivy, Aqua, Prisma Cloud), backup/restore (Velero), and policy-as-code frameworks.
*	Knowledge of KEDA, Cilium eBPF, GPU Operator, Windows containers, or air-gapped/regulated environments.
*	Exposure to OpenShift or hybrid/on-prem Kubernetes (kOps, Rancher).
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Onsite Contract Position for Kubernetes Engineer in Sandy Springs, GA
