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(1120620) Senior Kubernetes Platform Engineer
Div*** · Peoria, IL, United States
Peoria, IL, United StatesFull timeExp: 10+ yrs115,000-120,000 USD/yearlyOnsite
Remuneration
115,000-120,000 USD/yearly
Location
Peoria, IL, United States
Visa sponsorship
Sponsors visa
Job summary
Leads the design, deployment, and lifecycle management of highly available Kubernetes platforms across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments, including support for enterprise AI workloads. Builds GitOps-driven operations and secure multi-tenant standards, establishes platform observability and operating practices, and resolves issues across networking, storage, and runtime layers using tools such as Terraform, Helm, Argo CD, and Flux.
Benefits
401(k)Dental insuranceVision insuranceDisability insuranceEmployee assistance programHealth insuranceHealth savings accountLife insurancePaid time offPaid holidays
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree and at least 10 years of relevant experience.
- Experience building, evolving, and operating production-grade Kubernetes platforms at scale across cloud, on-premises, or hybrid environments.
- Expertise in Linux, cluster networking, and storage architecture, including infrastructure-level troubleshooting.
- Production experience with infrastructure as code and release automation, including Terraform and Helm.
- Experience managing production deployments with GitOps tools such as Argo CD or Flux.
- Hands-on Kubernetes security experience, including RBAC, network policies, secrets and key management, policy enforcement, and cluster hardening.
- Experience with at least one major cloud platform, preferably AWS or Azure.
- Experience implementing monitoring, observability, and operational readiness practices.
Responsibilities
- Lead design, deployment, and lifecycle management of highly available Kubernetes platforms across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments.
- Establish secure multi-tenant platform standards for governance, resource efficiency, and workload isolation.
- Automate platform provisioning, upgrades, patching, scaling, and decommissioning using GitOps practices.
- Define standards for deployment, observability, and service operations.
- Integrate security and compliance controls for policy, identity and access, secrets management, and workload protection.
- Establish observability to support issue detection, incident response, and reliability management.
- Own the platform operating model, including service objectives, support expectations, operational readiness, and scaling.
- Resolve complex issues across networking, storage, and runtime layers while improving platform architecture.
- Improve automation, performance, and cost efficiency.
- Partner with security, infrastructure, and application teams to standardize deployments and support platform adoption.
Skills
AKSArgo CDAWSAzureEKSFluxGKEHelmKubernetesLinuxOpenShiftOpenTelemetryRancherTerraformIstio
Certifications
CKACKADCKS
Degrees
Bachelor's degree
Work schedule
On-call rotationMaintenance readinessDisaster recovery preparedness
Relocation
No