Senior Kubernetes Platform Engineer | GitOps & SRE Leader

Jobtome; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtome is seeking a Senior Kubernetes Platform Engineer to design, secure, and scale enterprise Kubernetes platforms across AWS EKS, Azure AKS, and hybrid environments. You will focus on platform architecture, GitOps automation, CI/CD engineering, infrastructure as code, security governance, and developer experience.

Responsibilities include building scalable Kubernetes platforms, implementing GitOps with Argo CD and ARC, delivering canary and blue-green deployments, enforcing security

Qualifications

• 7+ years in DevOps, SRE, infra, or platform engineering.
• 5+ years in Kubernetes platform engineering.
• Terraform and infrastructure as code expertise.
• Kubernetes security, cloud networking, ingress, RBAC, policies.
• Kyverno or OPA/Gatekeeper, CI/CD, monitoring, reliability.
• Troubleshooting, architecture, and leadership.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and manage scalable Kubernetes platforms across AWS EKS, Azure AKS, and hybrid environments.
• Implement GitOps workflows with Argo CD and automate CI/CD with ARC.
• Develop progressive delivery strategies including canary and blue-green deployments.
• Apply Kubernetes security controls: RBAC, network policies, Pod Security Standards.
• Create Terraform modules and hardened container images for self-service platforms.
• Establish observability, monitoring, SLOs, and platform reliability standards.
• Integrate security scans, quality gates, and compliance into CI/CD pipelines.
• Define platform architecture standards and document ADRs; mentor teams.

Skills

DevOps

SRE

Kubernetes

Architecture

Documentation

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT or equivalent

Tools

Terraform

Argo CD

ARC (GitHub Actions Runner Controller)

Kyverno

OPA/Gatekeeper

Job description

Jobtome is seeking a Senior Kubernetes Platform Engineer to design, secure, and scale enterprise Kubernetes platforms across AWS EKS, Azure AKS, and hybrid environments. You will focus on platform architecture, GitOps automation, CI/CD engineering, infrastructure as code, security governance, and developer experience.

Responsibilities include building scalable Kubernetes platforms, implementing GitOps with Argo CD and ARC, delivering canary and blue-green deployments, enforcing security