Senior Kubernetes Architect - DoD-Cleared, Multi-Cloud

Valiant Technologies LLC; North Charleston (SC); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Valiant Technologies LLC seeks a high-level Kubernetes SME with deep hands-on experience in orchestration, cloud-native infrastructure, and automation. The role designs, implements, and optimizes enterprise-grade Kubernetes environments across multi-cloud and on-prem deployments.

You will lead architecture discussions, set standards, mentor engineers, and drive GitOps pipelines with Argo CD or Flux to ensure reliable, scalable clusters and workloads.

Qualifications

• Senior Kubernetes SME with hands-on experience in architecture, orchestration, and operations.
• Experience deploying and optimizing production Kubernetes in multi‑cloud and on‑prem environments.
• Experience building GitOps pipelines (Argo CD or Flux) to automate state, addons, and workloads.
• Strong networking skills across CNIs, ingress, service mesh, and troubleshooting.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, tracing, and performance tuning for clusters.
• Proven ability to lead, mentor, and transfer knowledge to engineers and teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and optimize enterprise-grade Kubernetes environments.
• Architect and deploy clusters across bare-metal, virtualized, and multi-cloud platforms.
• Build and maintain GitOps delivery pipelines for cluster state and workloads.
• Collaborate with application teams to onboard workloads and optimize resource usage.
• Develop standards and automation templates to drive consistency and repeatability across environments.

Skills

Kubernetes architecture and operations

GitOps pipelines

Multi-cloud orchestration

Networking and CNIs

Monitoring, logging, tracing

Automation and IaC (Ansible, Terraform

Education

BS Degree in a relevant technical field

5+ years hands-on Kubernetes experience

scrum developer cert (PSDK/CDS)

Tools

AKS

EKS

GKE

Docker

Podman/Buildah

Jenkins

Helm

Kustomize

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

Valiant Technologies LLC seeks a high-level Kubernetes SME with deep hands-on experience in orchestration, cloud-native infrastructure, and automation. The role designs, implements, and optimizes enterprise-grade Kubernetes environments across multi-cloud and on-prem deployments.

You will lead architecture discussions, set standards, mentor engineers, and drive GitOps pipelines with Argo CD or Flux to ensure reliable, scalable clusters and workloads.