Platform Engineer: Kubernetes, CI/CD & Automation

Aqua IT; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Aqua IT is seeking a Platform Engineer to design, implement, and support containerized deployment platforms with a focus on orchestration, automation, and reliability. You will work with development and infrastructure teams to containerize applications and improve deployment pipelines using Kubernetes-based platforms.

The ideal candidate has TS/SCI preferred clearance, 2–6 years in DevOps or platform engineering, hands-on Docker and Kubernetes, and experience with CI/CD tooling (GitHub Actions,

Qualifications

• Active Top Secret clearance (TS/SCI preferred).
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent professional experience.
• Approximately 2–6 years of software engineering, DevOps, platform engineering, or cloud engineering experience.
• Professional experience developing or operating containerized applications.
• Hands‑on experience with Docker, Podman, or similar container technologies.
• Practical experience with Kubernetes or another container orchestration platform.
• Proficiency in Python, Go, Java, C#, or Bash.
• Experience with Git‑based source control and collaborative software development practices.
• Experience creating or maintaining CI/CD pipelines using platforms such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, or similar.
• Understanding of application networking concepts, including DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, TLS, load balancing, service discovery, and ingress.
• Understanding of Linux system administration and troubleshooting.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and documentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Containerize applications using Docker or compatible container technologies.
• Design and maintain Kubernetes workloads (Deployments, StatefulSets, DaemonSets, Jobs, Services, Ingress, ConfigMaps, Secrets).
• Develop and maintain Helm charts, Kustomize overlays, or equivalent deployment templates.
• Build and improve CI/CD pipelines for build, test, security scanning, deployment, and rollback.
• Automate infrastructure and platform operations using Terraform, Ansible, or cloud-native tools.
• Support deployments across development, test, staging, and production environments.
• Implement configuration, secrets management, health checks, readiness and liveness probes, and resource governance.
• Troubleshoot container, networking, storage, deployment, and application-runtime issues.
• Improve platform reliability via monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting, and dashboards.
• Apply secure software supply chain practices (image scanning, vulnerability remediation, artifact management, least privilege).
• Collaborate with software developers to improve readiness for containerized and distributed environments.
• Participate in incident response, root-cause analysis, and post-incident improvement activities.
• Contribute to technical standards, documentation, runbooks, architecture discussions, and engineering best practices.
• Mentor less-experienced engineers with constructive technical guidance.

Skills

Kubernetes knowledge

CI/CD concepts

Programming basics

Linux troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, IT, or equivalent

Tools

Docker

Podman

Git

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Jenkins

Azure DevOps

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

Aqua IT is seeking a Platform Engineer to design, implement, and support containerized deployment platforms with a focus on orchestration, automation, and reliability. You will work with development and infrastructure teams to containerize applications and improve deployment pipelines using Kubernetes-based platforms.

The ideal candidate has TS/SCI preferred clearance, 2–6 years in DevOps or platform engineering, hands-on Docker and Kubernetes, and experience with CI/CD tooling (GitHub Actions,