Remote Senior Kubernetes Platform Engineer (ARK)

Peraton; Idaho; Hybrid; USD 104,000 - 166,000; Full time

Job summary

Peraton seeks a Senior Kubernetes Engineer to lead design, implementation, and operation of AKS-based platforms and the ARK agentic runtime for government multi-tenant environments. You will own incident response, architecture decisions, and secure, scalable workloads across Azure and on-premises configurations.

You will mentor engineers, drive root-cause analysis, and shape observability, security, and cost optimization strategies while partnering with Architecture and Service Delivery teams to

Qualifications

• U.S. citizen eligible for DHS Public Trust clearance.
• 8+ years hands-on Kubernetes in production.
• Extensive AKS and ARK experience in Azure.
• Strong incident management and technical documentation skills.
• Security best practices and FedRAMP knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Serve as Tier 3 escalation point for incidents and outages across AKS and ARK.
• Lead investigations across the Kubernetes stack and ARK components.
• Define observability standards using Azure Monitor, OpenTelemetry, and related tools.
• Mentor Tier 2 engineers and coordinate with stakeholders on incident response.

Skills

Kubernetes

AKS

ARK

Azure

Incident management

Leadership

Documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Associate degree

High School diploma

Tools

ARK

AKS

Terraform

Bicep

Helm

Argo CD

GitOps

OpenTelemetry

Azure Monitor

Job description

Peraton seeks a Senior Kubernetes Engineer to lead design, implementation, and operation of AKS-based platforms and the ARK agentic runtime for government multi-tenant environments. You will own incident response, architecture decisions, and secure, scalable workloads across Azure and on-premises configurations.

You will mentor engineers, drive root-cause analysis, and shape observability, security, and cost optimization strategies while partnering with Architecture and Service Delivery teams to