Kubernetes Platform Engineer

About the role

MeeBoss is sharing this active opportunity on behalf of the hiring company. MeeBoss is presenting a full-time, hybrid Kubernetes Platform Engineer role based in Philadelphia, PA. The position focuses on the modernization of mission-critical voice services, requiring an expert to design, deploy, and automate cloud-native infrastructure. The role involves transforming traditional VM-based environments into scalable, resilient Kubernetes platforms to support voice middleware and backend applications.

Responsibilities

• Assess applications, middleware, infrastructure dependencies, and VM-based environments.
• Design Kubernetes architectures for highly available and latency-sensitive workloads.
• Containerize legacy middleware and backend applications.
• Deploy, administer, upgrade, scale, and troubleshoot production Kubernetes clusters.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for testing, deployment, and release management.
• Develop infrastructure automation using Ansible and Terraform, including reusable roles and playbooks.
• Provision and manage infrastructure across AWS, Azure, GCP, OpenStack, and/or OpenShift.
• Implement monitoring, centralized logging, alerting, dashboards, and observability.
• Troubleshoot application, Kubernetes, networking, infrastructure, and deployment issues.
• Support migration planning, testing, staged deployments, production cutovers, and stabilization.
• Apply security, scalability, availability, resilience, and reliability best practices.
• Develop runbooks, technical documentation, and knowledge-transfer materials.
• Collaborate with development, infrastructure, DevOps, architecture, and operations teams.
• Participate in production incident response and root-cause analysis.

Requirements

• 10+ years of infrastructure, platform, DevOps, or systems engineering experience.
• Expert-level production Kubernetes administration, including cluster deployment, configuration, upgrades, scaling, and lifecycle management.
• Strong hands-on experience with Ansible for infrastructure and configuration automation.
• Hands-on Terraform experience for infrastructure provisioning and lifecycle automation.
• Experience designing and developing CI/CD pipelines with automated testing and deployment processes.
• Administration experience with one or more cloud platforms: AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, OpenStack, or OpenShift.
• Experience with monitoring, centralized logging, alerting, dashboards, and production troubleshooting tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/Elastic Stack, Splunk, or Datadog).
• Strong scripting/programming experience, with Python preferred, for infrastructure and operational automation.
• Production platform support experience, including incident troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and operational documentation.
• Experience with high-availability and low-latency environments.
• Large-scale modernization or migration experience.
• Ability to collaborate across development, infrastructure, architecture, and operations teams.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent hands-on experience).

Benefits

• W2 Contract employment.

Pay

$65/hour

Schedule

Hybrid – 1–2 days onsite/week