Senior Kubernetes Engineer

Full Time
Professional
Northern VA, US

Velocity-X is seeking a highly motivated and self-directed professional to fill the role of Senior
Kubernetes Engineer to support our team in Northern Virginia. Responsible for new and existing
Kubernetes production and development environments. Responsible for installation, configuration, and
maintenance of existing Kubernetes infrastructure. Assist development team in containerized tool
development, infrastructure security, monitoring, auto-scaling, auto-recovery, performance tuning and
installation/configuration of containerized applications.

Required Qualifications:

• A degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or related or an additional 4
  years of experience in lieu of degree
• Minimum 10 years of experience performing systems engineering related work in a multi-
  disciplinary, fast-paced, matrixed and cross-functional program in a resource intensive
  environment
• Demonstrated experience installing, configuring, and maintaining Kubernetes environments.
• Demonstrated experience engineering and maintaining Continuous Integration deployment
  solutions using DevOps tools, such as Jenkins, CloudFormation, Nexus, Ansible, etc
• Experience using AWS technologies such as EC2, EBS, AMI, AWSCLI, CloudWatch, etc
• Excellent understanding of software development programming languages (Java, Python, Shell,
  etc.)
• In-depth knowledge of Linux operation systems

Desired Qualifications:

• AWS ECS and EKS experience
• AWS certifications
• Understanding of software development programming languages (Java, Python, etc.)
• Experience with Kubernetes and Docker

Position Clearance Requirement:
TS/SCI with Full-Scope Polygraph

Equal Opportunity Employer:
Velocity-X is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race,
color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental
disability, genetic factors, military/veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.