Software Engineer - Kubernetes with Security Clearance

Duties & Responsibilities

• Design and develop new platform capabilities on Kubernetes, including orchestration workflows, deployment automation, and operational tooling
• Build and maintain reusable deployment templates using Helm (or Kustomize) to support consistent and compliant application deployments
• Implement Kubernetes security controls including RBAC policies, role bindings, and least-privilege access models
• Design and manage namespace-based workload isolation to support multi-tenancy, compliance, and operational boundaries
• Develop and integrate CI/CD pipelines that support automated build, test, deploy, and rollback workflows (including GitOps and progressive delivery patterns)
• Instrument workloads with metrics, health checks, and observability standards to support monitoring and SLO adherence
• Collaborate with security, networking, cloud, and application teams to ensure platform requirements align with mission and operational needs

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)
• Full lifecycle experience delivering software or platform capabilities on Kubernetes (design, build, test, deploy, operate)
• Experience building and maintaining Helm charts or Kustomize-based deployments
• Strong understanding of Kubernetes RBAC (roles, role bindings, and policy enforcement)
• Experience using namespaces for workload isolation and multi-tenancy support
• Experience building or supporting CI/CD pipelines integrated with Kubernetes environments
• Experience with automated deployment strategies such as GitOps or progressive delivery

Desired Skills

• Experience developing Kubernetes controllers or operators
• Experience with admission controllers or webhooks (mutating/validating) for policy enforcement and standardization
• Familiarity with service mesh technologies such as Istio (mTLS, traffic management, policy enforcement)
• Experience implementing Kubernetes network policies (CNI-based zero-trust segmentation)
• Experience supporting multi-tenant Kubernetes environments with strong isolation requirements
• Experience exposing and collecting workload metrics using Prometheus/OpenMetrics standards
• Familiarity with AWS integrations such as IRSA (IAM Roles for Service Accounts)
• Experience integrating Kubernetes workloads with cloud-native services and identity systems

Additional Details
What we offer:
Flexible time off
Full medical coverage
401(k) with company match
Referral bonuses
Performance bonuses
Life insurance and disability coverage
Tuition and training reimbursement