Senior Kubernetes Architect & Cloud-Native SME

Cloud Analytics Technologies, LLC; North Charleston (SC); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Cloud Analytics Technologies, LLC seeks a senior Kubernetes SME to design, implement and optimize enterprise-grade Kubernetes environments. You will lead multi-cloud cluster operations, automate state with GitOps and collaborate with teams to onboard workloads while improving reliability and performance.

You will architect networking, monitoring, and security tooling and mentor junior engineers, contributing to documentation and reusable automation.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on Kubernetes in production environments.
• Experience with multi-cloud Kubernetes deployments and managed services.
• Security tooling knowledge (OPA/Gatekeeper, Kyverno, etc.).
• Strong communication and ability to mentor junior engineers.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and manage enterprise-grade Kubernetes environments.
• Lead automation via GitOps across multi-cluster environments.
• Collaborate with teams to onboard workloads and optimize resources.
• Develop standards, docs, and reusable automation templates.

Skills

Kubernetes architecture

Cloud-native infra

Cluster operations

GitOps pipelines

CNIs & networking

Monitoring/logging/tracing

Troubleshooting Kubernetes

Documentation

Mentorship

Education

BS Degree in a relevant technical field

CompTIA Security+ CE

PSD/CSD (Scrum Developer)

Tools

AKS

EKS

GKE

Argo CD

Flux

Docker

Podman

Buildah

Kustomize

Helm

Istio/Linkerd

OPA/Gatekeeper

Kyverno

Terraform

Ansible

Jenkins

YAML

Git

Job description

Cloud Analytics Technologies, LLC seeks a senior Kubernetes SME to design, implement and optimize enterprise-grade Kubernetes environments. You will lead multi-cloud cluster operations, automate state with GitOps and collaborate with teams to onboard workloads while improving reliability and performance.

You will architect networking, monitoring, and security tooling and mentor junior engineers, contributing to documentation and reusable automation.