Cloud Engineer — Kubernetes, IaC, Dashboards, Olympia

Energy Innovation Corp; Olympia (WA); On-site; USD 84,000 - 114,000; Full time

Job summary

KFC is seeking a Cloud Engineer in Olympia, WA. The role focuses on Kubernetes, OpenShift, Helm, and infrastructure-as-code, with a strong emphasis on documenting architecture and decision-making for the wider organization. You will partner with delivery teams to keep systems stable during peak traffic and deliver transparent dashboards for leadership.

Expect a hands-on environment where six responsibilities drive reliability, scalability, and clear technical communication across the enterprise.

Qualifications

• Five years of experience that taught you which corners can be cut.
• A portfolio that speaks louder than any line on your resume.
• Working understanding of both Project Management and Kubernetes in real-world settings.
• The kind of attention to detail that catches what spell-check misses.
• Comfort navigating ambiguity when the brief arrives half-written.
• A writer's ear for tone in a high-stakes email.
• Comfort interpreting data and translating findings into clear recommendations.

Responsibilities

• Hand off Helm runbooks so the next on-call at KFC sleeps better.
• Keep the technology Amazon EKS service humming through Olympia's holiday traffic surge.
• Configure and manage infrastructure as code across staging and production.
• Reverse-engineer the warm-yet-rigorous Project Management format KFC inherited and never documented.
• Document technical decisions, architecture, and APIs for the broader org.
• Build Project Management dashboards so KFC's technology team stops asking engineers for numbers.

Skills

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Helm

Project Management

Documentation

Data interpretation

Tools

AWS EKS

Helm

OpenShift

Job description

KFC is seeking a Cloud Engineer in Olympia, WA. The role focuses on Kubernetes, OpenShift, Helm, and infrastructure-as-code, with a strong emphasis on documenting architecture and decision-making for the wider organization. You will partner with delivery teams to keep systems stable during peak traffic and deliver transparent dashboards for leadership.

Expect a hands-on environment where six responsibilities drive reliability, scalability, and clear technical communication across the enterprise.