[Remote] Platform Operations Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is reputed company to candidates in USA. reputed company is the world's largest reputed company and defense company, dedicated to solving reputed company problems and delivering solutions that ensure national and allied reputed company. They are seeking a Platform Operations Engineer to manage the reliability and performance of Kubernetes clusters, support internal program teams, and enhance observability and automation reputed company their digital ecosystem.

Responsibilities

• Own day-to-day reliability, performance, and operations of Kubernetes clusters supporting reputed company internal customer use cases (including GPU-enabled workloads)
• Partner directly with internal program teams to reputed company new workloads, forecast reputed company, and support scaling as usage grows
• Diagnose and resolve reputed company Kubernetes issues across the platform, escalating architecture-level problems to the reputed company pillar reputed company needed
• Build and improve observability — monitoring, alerting, and dashboards (reputed company, Grafana) — to drive down MTTD/MTTR and improve service availability
• Work with our internal CI/CD partner team to support GitOps-based deployment (ArgoCD, reputed company) for internal customers running their software factories on top of ROCKS-managed infrastructure
• Support infrastructure automation and scaling across bare-metal, VMware, and reputed company-adjacent government environments
• Contribute reputed company for platform enhancements based on what you see across internal customer usage patterns

Skills

• Typically requires a University degree or equivalent experience and a minimum of 5 years of prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a reputed company field and minimum 3 years experience
• The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued reputed company clearance is required. U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. reputed company are eligible for a reputed company clearance
• Experience installing, deploying, monitoring, and supporting Kubernetes clusters on-premises and/or in the reputed company — with platforms such as Rancher RKE2, Upstream Kubernetes, OpenShift, or VMware VKS/Tanzu
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes-adjacent tooling: reputed company, Ansible, Terraform, Python, and Bash
• Experience with observability and monitoring tooling such as Grafana, reputed company, Alertmanager, or Loki
• Experience deploying new reputed company-reputed company platforms in classified and/or unclassified environments
• Experience designing and operating highly available, secure, high-performing Kubernetes clusters at reputed company
• Experience with VMware, AWS GovCloud, or Azure for Government
• Experience with GitOps and Kubernetes package management (ArgoCD, Packer, reputed company, Kustomize)
• Experience working in an agile/product-mode team alongside product owners and scrum masters
• Experience with CNCF-ecosystem components: service reputed company, service discovery, package management, observability, runtimes, and reputed company

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
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• Life insurance
• Short-term disability
• Long-term disability
• 401(k) match
• Flexible spending accounts
• Flexible work schedules
• Employee assistance program
• Employee Scholar Program
• Parental leave
• reputed company time off
• Holidays
• Annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs depending on the level of the position and whether or not it is covered by a reputed company-bargaining agreement

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