{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"e4e4154a0ba51b6a8b9026d4","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/e4e4154a0ba51b6a8b9026d4","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/e4e4154a0ba51b6a8b9026d4","title":"Kubernetes Engineer Remote","description":"Description\nThe Leidos Digital Modernization Sector has an exciting career opportunity for an experienced Kubernetes Engineer to work remote and provide support for the US Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC), Operational Command and Control Acquisition Delta, known as Kobayashi Maru. This role is responsible for leveraging Kubernetes technology to deliver, install, upgrade, patch and maintain highly reliable and resilient solutions for deploying and hosting current and future tools and services needed to develop, test, secure, and ship software applications to production. Candidate will be expected to perform within an Agile framework including conducting daily stand up, welcome feedback often, sprint/iteration planning, duration planning, retrospectives, executing from the product backlog and roadmap, meeting performance metrics, and reporting on progress and blockers.\nPrimary Responsibilities:\nSecure and configure containerized services orchestrated with Kubernetes, and its underlying environment.\nTune Kubernetes performance and identify problems by using service and traffic metrics by establishing monitoring and alerting dashboards.\nLead the lifecycle management of all containerized services used in the development of Kobayashi Maru software.\nLead troubleshooting containerized-services and publishing root cause analysis (RCAs) and postmortems with the larger portfolio.\nEstablish Service Level Objectives and other Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) related metrics.\nManage the north-south and east-west network traffic to ensure all container-based critical services are maintained.\nEnsure the Kubernetes environment is running as it should, properly patched and configured, has sufficient resources to run the required applications, and can scale as needed without being overprovisioned.\nDesign, secure, deploy, and manage the Kubernetes environment required to support 14 software product teams and thousands of users across the test, IL4 development, IL6 staging/production, and higher classification level stagging/production environments.\nDesign, implement, and maintain highly available Kubernetes clusters across cloud and on-prem environments.\nAutomate infrastructure provisioning, monitoring, and scaling using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and CI/CD pipelines.\nDevelop and manage Helm charts for application deployment and configuration management.\nDeploy and manage applications on cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).\nMonitor and troubleshoot Kubernetes workloads, networking, and persistent storage solutions.\nImplement Kubernetes security best practices, including RBAC, network policies, and container runtime security.\nOptimize performance and reliability of containerized applications in distributed systems.\nCollaborate with development, security, and operations teams to enhance DevOps workflows and cloud-native application delivery.\nIntegrate Kubernetes with service meshes, logging, and observability tools such as Istio, Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK Stack.\nParticipate in system upgrades, disaster recovery planning, and compliance initiatives such as NIST, CIS Benchmarks, and FedRAMP.\nMentor junior engineers and contribute to knowledge sharing within the organization.\nBasic Qualifications:\nRequires BS degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, STEM, or IT and 8+ years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 6+ years of prior relevant experience, additional years of experience may be accepted in lieu of degree.\nUS Citizen and Possession of a current Active DoD Secret Clearance.\nMinimum 8 years of professional experience as a Kubernetes Engineer, successfully designing and building distributed systems for mid to large enterprises, including two years of SRE experience.\nPossession one of the following certifications:\no Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)\no Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)\no Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate (KCNA) certification or equivalent\nPreferred Qualifications:\nMaster’s degree in computer science.\nAdvanced experience with AWS EKS, Azure AKS, or Google GKE.\nUnderstanding of hybrid IaaS + external cloud integrations.\nInfrastructure design using cloud-native storage, networking, and security patterns.\nIf you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo — because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 — and moving faster than anyone else dares.\nOriginal Posting:\nJuly 7, 2026\n\nFor U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.\n\nPay Range:\nPay Range $107,900.00 - $195,050.00\nThe Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.\nAbout Leidos\nLeidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $16.7 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2025. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com.\nPay and Benefits\nPay and benefits are fundamental to any career decision. That's why we craft compensation packages that reflect the importance of the work we do for our customers. Employment benefits include competitive compensation, Health and Wellness programs, Income Protection, Paid Leave and Retirement. More details are available at www.leidos.com/careers/pay-benefits.\nSecuring Your Data\nBeware of fake employment opportunities using Leidos’ name. Leidos will never ask you to provide payment-related information during any part of the employment application process (i.e., ask you for money), nor will Leidos ever advance money as part of the hiring process (i.e., send you a check or money order before doing any work). Further, Leidos will only communicate with you through emails that are generated by the Leidos.com automated system – never from free commercial services (e.g., Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail) or via WhatsApp, Telegram, etc. If you received an email purporting to be from Leidos that asks for payment-related information or any other personal information (e.g., about you or your previous employer), and you are concerned about its legitimacy, please make us aware immediately by emailing us at LeidosCareersFraud@leidos.com.\nIf you believe you are the victim of a scam, contact your local law enforcement and report the incident to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.\nCommitment to Non-Discrimination\nAll qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. 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This role is responsible for leveraging Kubernetes technology to deliver, install, upgrade, patch and maintain highly reliable and resilient solutions for deploying and hosting current and future tools and services needed to develop, test, secure, and ship software applications to production. Candidate will be expected to perform within an Agile framework including conducting daily stand up, welcome feedback often, sprint/iteration planning, duration planning, retrospectives, executing from the product backlog and roadmap, meeting performance metrics, and reporting on progress and blockers.\nPrimary Responsibilities:\nSecure and configure containerized services orchestrated with Kubernetes, and its underlying environment.\nTune Kubernetes performance and identify problems by using service and traffic metrics by establishing monitoring and alerting dashboards.\nLead the lifecycle management of all containerized services used in the development of Kobayashi Maru software.\nLead troubleshooting containerized-services and publishing root cause analysis (RCAs) and postmortems with the larger portfolio.\nEstablish Service Level Objectives and other Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) related metrics.\nManage the north-south and east-west network traffic to ensure all container-based critical services are maintained.\nEnsure the Kubernetes environment is running as it should, properly patched and configured, has sufficient resources to run the required applications, and can scale as needed without being overprovisioned.\nDesign, secure, deploy, and manage the Kubernetes environment required to support 14 software product teams and thousands of users across the test, IL4 development, IL6 staging/production, and higher classification level stagging/production environments.\nDesign, implement, and maintain highly available Kubernetes clusters across cloud and on-prem environments.\nAutomate infrastructure provisioning, monitoring, and scaling using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and CI/CD pipelines.\nDevelop and manage Helm charts for application deployment and configuration management.\nDeploy and manage applications on cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).\nMonitor and troubleshoot Kubernetes workloads, networking, and persistent storage solutions.\nImplement Kubernetes security best practices, including RBAC, network policies, and container runtime security.\nOptimize performance and reliability of containerized applications in distributed systems.\nCollaborate with development, security, and operations teams to enhance DevOps workflows and cloud-native application delivery.\nIntegrate Kubernetes with service meshes, logging, and observability tools such as Istio, Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK Stack.\nParticipate in system upgrades, disaster recovery planning, and compliance initiatives such as NIST, CIS Benchmarks, and FedRAMP.\nMentor junior engineers and contribute to knowledge sharing within the organization.\nBasic Qualifications:\nRequires BS degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, STEM, or IT and 8+ years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 6+ years of prior relevant experience, additional years of experience may be accepted in lieu of degree.\nUS Citizen and Possession of a current Active DoD Secret Clearance.\nMinimum 8 years of professional experience as a Kubernetes Engineer, successfully designing and building distributed systems for mid to large enterprises, including two years of SRE experience.\nPossession one of the following certifications:\no Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)\no Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)\no Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate (KCNA) certification or equivalent\nPreferred Qualifications:\nMaster’s degree in computer science.\nAdvanced experience with AWS EKS, Azure AKS, or Google GKE.\nUnderstanding of hybrid IaaS + external cloud integrations.\nInfrastructure design using cloud-native storage, networking, and security patterns.\nIf you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo — because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 — and moving faster than anyone else dares.\nOriginal Posting:\nJuly 7, 2026\n\nFor U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.\n\nPay Range:\nPay Range $107,900.00 - $195,050.00\nThe Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.\nAbout Leidos\nLeidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $16.7 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2025. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com.\nPay and Benefits\nPay and benefits are fundamental to any career decision. That's why we craft compensation packages that reflect the importance of the work we do for our customers. Employment benefits include competitive compensation, Health and Wellness programs, Income Protection, Paid Leave and Retirement. More details are available at www.leidos.com/careers/pay-benefits.\nSecuring Your Data\nBeware of fake employment opportunities using Leidos’ name. Leidos will never ask you to provide payment-related information during any part of the employment application process (i.e., ask you for money), nor will Leidos ever advance money as part of the hiring process (i.e., send you a check or money order before doing any work). Further, Leidos will only communicate with you through emails that are generated by the Leidos.com automated system – never from free commercial services (e.g., Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail) or via WhatsApp, Telegram, etc. If you received an email purporting to be from Leidos that asks for payment-related information or any other personal information (e.g., about you or your previous employer), and you are concerned about its legitimacy, please make us aware immediately by emailing us at LeidosCareersFraud@leidos.com.\nIf you believe you are the victim of a scam, contact your local law enforcement and report the incident to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.\nCommitment to Non-Discrimination\nAll qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. 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