Senior Kubernetes Engineer

Location: McLean, VA (Fully Onsite) | Duration: 6+ months contract

About the Role

A successful candidate will have expertise in cloud deployment, service-oriented architecture, API development, and complex system integration within enterprise environments.

Core Competencies

Primary Focus

• Cloud Deployment & Operations: History of contributing to cloud deployments in an engineering role
• Service-Oriented Architecture: Deep understanding of SOA, microservices, and cloud-native application design
• API Development and Security: Building and securing APIs for distributed cloud systems and identity context sharing, including API integration with IAM systems
• Complex System Integration: Experience integrating multiple cloud services and third-party applications in enterprise environments
• Software Development Lifecycle: Full SDLC experience with cloud platforms and information security applications
• Deployment Experience: History of contributing to production deployments in an engineering role

Supporting

• OAuth & Authentication: Building OAuth solutions for cloud service authentication and authorization
• Federation & SSO: SAML configuration and Single Sign-On integration across cloud applications
• IAM Architecture: Understanding of Identity Lifecycle Management, Access Management, and Credential Management in cloud contexts
• Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA): Security integration (Duo or Microsoft Authenticator) into authentication, authorization, and SSO processes
• Complex Integration: Experience with complex Identity and Access Management integration and service delivery use cases
• Identity Lifecycle Management: User provisioning/de-provisioning
• Data Management: Strong knowledge in identity and access data correlation, normalization, and building cohesive identity and access data models for large enterprises

Requirements

• 10+ years in software development focused on cloud technologies and distributed systems
• 5+ years with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) in enterprise environments
• 3+ years with full SDLC for cloud/hybrid applications: requirements, design, implementation, integration, testing, and deployment automation
• 3+ years with cloud infrastructure: Kubernetes/Docker, cloud databases, application servers, networking (VPC, load balancers, API gateways), Linux, and security/data flows
• 3+ years designing and implementing cloud solutions with integrated security and IAM
• Experience with IAM architecture: OAuth, SSO, SAML federation, and MFA integration in cloud applications
• Hands-on experience with REST API in Java or Python

Technical Skills

• Amazon Web Services: EC2, EKS, ECS, KMS, S3, IAM, RDS, etc.
• Container Orchestration: Kubernetes
• Service Mesh: Istio
• Package Management: Helm, pip
• IaC: Terraform, Cloud Formation
• DevOps Tools: Jenkins, Git, Artifactory
• Design Patterns: Formal design patterns and industry best-practices
• Java Stack: Spring / Spring Boot, JPA / Hibernate, Postgres, REST / RPC calls over HTTP
• Scripting Languages: Groovy / Perl / Python / Ruby

Soft Skills

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Self-motivated, driven, and creative individual

Differentiators

• WebAuthn experience
• Robot / Sauce Labs
• Security: PKI, SSL / TLS, Fuzzing, etc.
• Scaling CI / CD systems and microservices
• Code coverage analysis / static analysis tools
• Agile Methodologies: Scrum and other agile programming processes
• Overseeing / managing production web application deployment
• Frontend Technologies: JavaScript / TypeScript / Angular
• Web Technologies: HTML5 / Bootstrap
• .NET Languages: C#, VB .NET

Pay

$90–100/hr. The specific compensation for this position will be determined by several factors, including the scope, complexity, and location of the role, as well as the cost of labor in the market; the skills, education, training, credentials, and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of employment.

Benefits

Full-time consultants have access to benefits, including medical, dental, vision, and 401K contributions, as well as PTO, sick leave, and other benefits mandated by applicable state or localities where you reside or work.