Senior Kubernetes Platform Engineer Lead
Durham, NC
Date Posted:06-Jul-2026
Work Type:On-Site
Job Number:490911
Job Description
Job Title: Senior Kubernetes Platform Engineer Lead
Location: Onsite - Research Triangle Park, Durham, NC 27709 ***Can accept remote
Duration: 5.5 Months
Top Skills Required :
1. Kubernetes (GKE / AKS / EKS) – Production?grade, regulated environments
2. CI/CD & Automation (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD, GitOps)
3. FedRAMP High / IL5 Compliance & Observability (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, OpenTelemetry)
Job Description/ Responsibilities :
- 10–14 years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering
- Strong hands?on experience running Kubernetes in production (EKS, AKS, GKE, or upstream)
- Design, build, and operate production?grade Kubernetes platforms in regulated environments
- Improve system reliability through automation, thoughtful design, and continuous iteration
- Define and drive SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets to guide reliability decisions
- Build and evolve CI/CD pipelines that are secure, scalable, and easy to use
- Implement robust observability using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, and OpenTelemetry
- Reduce operational toil by automating repetitive processes and improving workflows
- Partner with security and compliance teams to meet FedRAMP High, DoD IL5, NIST, STIG, and RMF requirements
- Support ATO processes including documentation, controls implementation, and audit readiness
- Participate in on?call rotations supporting customer requests and paging alerts
- Participate in incident response, blameless postmortems, and continuous improvement efforts
- Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure, Linux systems, and networking fundamentals
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code, with Terraform preferred
- Familiarity with CI/CD systems such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or ArgoCD
- Proficiency in scripting/programming languages such as Python and Go
- Experience building or operating observability platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK)
- Working knowledge of compliance frameworks including NIST 800?53, STIGs, and RMF
Years of Experience: 14.00 Years of Experience
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At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position's pay range is $57.00/hr – $58.57/hr.