Senior Kubernetes Platform Engineer

TMV Global Inc; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

TMV Global Inc is seeking a Senior Kubernetes Platform Engineer in Atlanta to design, deploy, and optimize enterprise Kubernetes platforms using EKS, AWS networking, and IaC practices.

You will drive platform modernization, security controls, GitOps pipelines, and observability while collaborating with multiple teams to enforce standards across production environments.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering or related fields.
• Extensive hands-on experience with Amazon EKS and Kubernetes in production.
• Deep knowledge of Kubernetes architecture, cluster operations and workload management.
• Strong AWS networking and security knowledge (VPC, IAM, LB, SGs).
• Experience with IaC using Terraform, CloudFormation or similar tools.
• Experience implementing monitoring, logging and observability for Kubernetes platforms.
• Excellent troubleshooting and performance optimization skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.

Responsibilities

• Architect, deploy, and manage highly available Amazon EKS clusters across environments.
• Own Kubernetes lifecycle management including provisioning, upgrades, node management, and modernization.
• Design and optimize networking, ingress, service connectivity, and secure traffic flow.
• Implement reliability patterns including autoscaling, resource optimization, scheduling, resilience testing.
• Build observability solutions using monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting tools.
• Drive Kubernetes security initiatives: RBAC, policy enforcement, secrets management.
• Develop platform automation using IaC and GitOps methodologies.
• Support production incident response, troubleshooting, and platform improvements.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to establish Kubernetes standards and governance.

Skills

Amazon EKS

Kubernetes admin

AWS networking

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform

CloudFormation

GitOps

Observability tooling

Incident response

Team collaboration

Tools

GitLab CI/CD

Kubernetes pipelines

Job description

Location: Atlanta, GA

Overview

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Kubernetes Platform Engineer with deep expertise in Amazon EKS, Kubernetes operations, cloud infrastructure, and platform engineering. This role will be responsible for designing, managing, and optimizing enterprise Kubernetes platforms while ensuring scalability, reliability, security, and operational excellence across production environments. The ideal candidate will have extensive hands-on experience managing production Kubernetes clusters, automating cloud infrastructure, implementing platform security controls, and driving container platform best practices.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect, deploy, and manage highly available Amazon EKS clusters across multiple environments.
• Own Kubernetes lifecycle management including provisioning, upgrades, node management, and platform modernization initiatives.
• Design and optimize networking, ingress, service connectivity, and secure traffic flow architectures.
• Implement reliability patterns including autoscaling, resource optimization, workload scheduling, and resilience testing.
• Build and enhance observability solutions using monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting tools.
• Drive Kubernetes security initiatives including RBAC, policy enforcement, image governance, secrets management, and runtime security.
• Develop platform automation using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and GitOps methodologies.
• Support production incident response, troubleshooting, performance tuning, and platform improvements.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to establish Kubernetes standards, platform governance, and best practices.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Platform Engineering, or related fields.
• Strong hands-on experience managing Amazon EKS and Kubernetes platforms in production environments.
• Deep knowledge of Kubernetes architecture, cluster operations, and workload management.
• Strong AWS expertise including VPC, IAM, Load Balancers, Security Groups, and storage services.
• Experience with containerization technologies and modern deployment strategies.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar tools.
• Experience implementing monitoring, logging, and observability solutions for Kubernetes platforms.
• Strong troubleshooting and performance optimization skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.

Preferred Qualifications

• AWS and/or Kubernetes certifications.
• Experience with GitLab CI/CD and Kubernetes deployment pipelines.
• Experience with GitOps tools and operational models.
• Knowledge of multi-cluster management and governance.
• Experience establishing enterprise Kubernetes platform standards and automation frameworks.

Candidate Insights (Internal Screening)

Must Have

Deep Amazon EKS and Kubernetes Administration experience

Production Kubernetes Operations at Scale

Strong AWS Networking and Security expertise (VPC, IAM, Load Balancers)

Infrastructure as Code experience (Terraform or CloudFormation)

Kubernetes Security (RBAC, Policies, Secrets Management)

Monitoring, Logging, Observability, and Incident Management experience

Platform Engineering or SRE background Preferred

GitLab CI/CD and Kubernetes deployment experience

Multi-Cluster Governance and Standardization

Service Mesh and Advanced Kubernetes Networking experience

Not a Fit

DevOps Engineers with limited Kubernetes production experience

AWS Administrators without EKS ownership experience

Application Developers with basic container knowledge only

Profiles focused on CI/CD tooling without container platform operations experience