Senior Kubernetes Engineer - Remote, AKS & ARK Expert

Peraton

Idaho

Remote

USD 104,000 - 166,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

Paid time off

Remote-friendly

Job summary

Peraton is seeking a Senior Kubernetes Engineer to support a government multi-cloud environment with 70+ tenant workloads, designing AKS-based platforms and deploying ARK. The role requires deep Kubernetes and Azure expertise, leading incident response, root-cause analysis, security, FedRAMP compliance, and mentoring engineers.

Location: Remote; hours are 8:00 AM–5:00 PM Eastern. Collaborate with architecture teams to enforce Change Management and Well-Architected best practices, optimize

Qualifications

Extensive hands-on Kubernetes experience in production
Experience operating AKS and the full Kubernetes stack
Experience deploying ARK or similar agent/runtime platforms

Responsibilities

Serve as Tier 3 escalation point for incidents and outages across AKS and ARK
Lead root cause analysis and implement preventive solutions
Define observability standards across tenant clusters
Lead management and maintenance of AKS clusters and ARK runtime
Mentor Tier 2 engineers and share knowledge

Skills

Kubernetes

AKS

Azure

Incident management

FedRAMP compliance

Leadership

Technical documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Tools

ARK (Agentic Runtime)

MCP/A2A integration

GitOps / IaC (Terraform, Bicep, Helm, Argo CD or Flux)

CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions)

Python/PowerShell/Go scripting

Job description

Location: Remote; hours are 8:00 AM–5:00 PM Eastern. Collaborate with architecture teams to enforce Change Management and Well-Architected best practices, optimize

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