Clearance Level: Must be eligible for a secret clearance
US Citizenship: Required
Job Classification: Full Time
Location: Remote

Years of Experience: 3-5 years
Education Level: Bachelor's Degree

Position Description: The K8s Senior will work with the Infrastructure as Code and Site Reliability Engineer SMEs to design, build, and update platform capabilities using Kubernetes native services adhering to Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) principles, industry best practices, along with the DoD CIO DevSecOps Reference Design, and a loosely coupled microservices-based architecture.

Required Skills:

• 3 years experience with packaging and securing applications as containers working in Kubernetes
• IASAE Level II certification (CASP+ CE, CISSP, CISSP Associate, or CSSLP)
• Demonstrated mastery of Kubernetes, Istio, GitOps, Custom Kubernetes Operators, Custom Helm charts, Kustomize, Custom Admission Controllers, Custom CRDs, and Custom Controllers.
• Demonstrated mastery of Linux and networking.
• Demonstrated mastery of Kubernetes and containers.
• Demonstrated mastery of Kubernetes control plane and each component.
• Demonstrated mastery of Istio.
• Demonstrated mastery of security and compliance for Kubernetes.
• Demonstrated mastery of building automation and configuration management tools (e.g. Ansible, Terraform).
• Demonstrated mastery of cloud and hybrid cloud architecture Amazon AWS, , Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Demonstrated mastery of common infrastructure tools like Docker, Terraform, and Helm, Git/GitLab/GitOPs, ArgoCD, Flux, Ansible.
• Demonstrated mastery working with large-scale products with thousands of end-users.
• Have a software development background.
• Demonstrated mastery of creating and maintaining documentation for implementations.
• CKA OR CKAD Certification.

Desired Skills:

• Experience managing different Kubernetes providers (e.g., RKE2, Amazon EKS and Fargate, Azure KS and Google KE) or run your own.
• Experience working at scale with other Architects on Security, Data protection, and Failover-Failback strategies.
• Experience implementing Continuous Integration, Delivery, and Deployment using different CI/CD tools.

• Experience with Big Bang (Istio, Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Prometheus, Kyverno, etc.)
• NIST Risk Management Framework (RMF)

Global InfoTek, Inc. is an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or based on disability.

About Global InfoTek, Inc. Global InfoTek Inc. has an award-winning track record of designing, developing, and deploying best-of-breed technologies that address the nation's pressing cyber and advanced technology needs. For close to three decades, GITI has rapidly combined pioneering technologies, operational effectiveness, and best business practices.