Senior Kubernetes Architect | Multi-Cloud & GitOps

Artifintech; North Charleston (SC); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

CS/OSS contributions encouraged

Professional development opportunities

Job summary

Artifintech in the United States is seeking a senior Kubernetes SME to design, implement, manage, and optimize enterprise-grade Kubernetes environments across bare-metal, virtualized, and multi-cloud platforms.

You will drive GitOps pipelines with Argo CD or Flux, tackle complex networking, security tooling, observability, and mentor junior engineers while collaborating with application teams and security stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Senior Kubernetes SME with hands-on design and operations experience.
• Experience deploying and managing production Kubernetes across multi-cloud and on‑prem.
• Strong track record in GitOps delivery pipelines (Argo CD or Flux).
• Deep knowledge of CNIs, ingress controllers, and service meshes.
• Proficiency in monitoring, logging, tracing, and incident response for clusters.
• Experience with security tooling (OPA/Gatekeeper, Kyverno, or Falco).
• Ability to guide, mentor, and transfer knowledge to engineers and teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and optimize enterprise-grade Kubernetes environments.
• Architect, deploy, and manage clusters across bare-metal, VM, and multi-cloud.
• Lead GitOps automation and CI/CD pipelines for workloads and cluster state.
• Tune networking, CNIs, ingress and service mesh configurations for reliability.
• Build observability and incident-response frameworks for cluster health.
• Collaborate with application teams and security stakeholders for compliance.
• Create reusable automation templates and documentation for repeatability.

Skills

Kubernetes SME

Multi-cloud orchestration

GitOps pipelines

Argo CD or Flux

Cluster operations

Networking troubleshooting

Istio/Linkerd service mesh

CI/CD tooling

Terraform/Ansible

Container tech (Docker, Podman)

Kustomize/Helm

Security tooling (OPA/Gatekeeper, Kyph

SRE/Observability

DoD security posture awareness

Education

BS Degree in a relevant technical field

CompTIA Security+ CE

Professional Scrum Developer or Certified Scrum Developer

Tools

AKS

EKS

GKE

Docker

Podman

Buildah

Istio

Linkerd

Argo CD

Flux

Jenkins

Git

YAML

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

Artifintech in the United States is seeking a senior Kubernetes SME to design, implement, manage, and optimize enterprise-grade Kubernetes environments across bare-metal, virtualized, and multi-cloud platforms.

You will drive GitOps pipelines with Argo CD or Flux, tackle complex networking, security tooling, observability, and mentor junior engineers while collaborating with application teams and security stakeholders.