Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer: Kubernetes & Kafka

Janus Soft Inc.; Herndon, Northern (VA, KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Janus Soft is seeking an elite Infrastructure Engineer to architect, maintain, and scale resilient systems on Project Shining Star in Herndon, VA. You will lead cloud infrastructure optimization, container orchestration, and automated provisioning to power high-volume, real-time data alerting across complex distributed environments.

You will collaborate with cross-functional development and operations teams to build secure CI/CD pipelines, manage high-throughput messaging streams, and ensure

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI clearance with Full Scope Polygraph required.
• Hands-on experience optimizing AWS cloud services (EKS, EC2, S3) and automating infrastructure provisioning with Terraform.
• Deep Kubernetes (EKS) expertise and robust routing/DNS for high-availability architectures.

Skills

TS/SCI clearance with FP

AWS Cloud (EKS, EC2, S3)

Kubernetes (EKS)

DNS routing

Kafka

RabbitMQ

CI/CD pipelines

Data alerting pipelines

Cloud security hardening

Incident response

Tools

Terraform

Job description

Janus Soft is seeking an elite Infrastructure Engineer to architect, maintain, and scale resilient systems on Project Shining Star in Herndon, VA. You will lead cloud infrastructure optimization, container orchestration, and automated provisioning to power high-volume, real-time data alerting across complex distributed environments.

You will collaborate with cross-functional development and operations teams to build secure CI/CD pipelines, manage high-throughput messaging streams, and ensure