Kubernetes Architect with Security Clearance - Hampton, VA, United States - Gridiron IT Solutions

Description

The Kubernetes Architect will serve as a technical thought leader and SME for our public Cloud / DevOps ecosystem of partners, customers, and service providers
The Kubernetes Architect works as part of the engineering team to support the design and implements the Kubernetes solutions
They will recommend, evaluate, and implement methods to optimize and enhance the application within the cloud environment to maximize performance and minimize costs
Roles and Responsibilities

• Lead development, deployment, and testing activities with various Kubernetes environments (Azure AKS/AWS EKS/Google GKE/VMware Tanzu/Red Hat OpenShift, Rancher)
• Architect, design, and implement Kubernetes environments from the agile planning stage to production deployments
• Lead and take part in readiness assessments, workshops, roadmap/design sessions, and tool/environment modernization discussions
• Lead architecting sessions with business and technology owners as a technical expert
• Provide systems support in and out of office hours
• Lead client demonstrations and working sessions
• Mentor junior staff and support project leadership
• Lead the creation of written deliverables
• Maintains several relevant and higher-end certifications
• Lead a team of technical delivery resources on complex projects
• Helps to develop new AHEAD products, processes, standards, and / or plans
• Obtains and maintains relevant and higher-end certifications
• Participate in pre-sales activities and support on an as-needed basis
• Be a mentor for more junior staff Experience with various Kubernetes platforms
• Proven experience in designing and building large scale, high performing, secure Kubernetes and other application platform infrastructure on Kubernetes platforms
• Experience in managing Kubernetes clusters, building docker images and Day 2 Operations
• Experience in Kubernetes networking, load balancer, pod security and certificate management
• Experience with monitoring tools such Datadog, Dynatrace AppDynamics, ELK, Grafana, Prometheus, or equivalent
• Experience with public cloud environments (i.e

AWS, GCP, Azure)

• Experience working with private registries like Docker, JFrog Artifactory, Nexus, ECR & etc.
• Good understanding & implementation experience using the 12-factor App principle
• Experience on container networking & security, image scanning for vulnerabilities using tools, Source code management and Implementation of Security best practices, other Dev Sec Ops principles and tools.
• Excellent hands-on experience with Unix/Linux-OS Internals and administration, ideally Red hat, SuSe, or Ubuntu.
• Excellent hands-on of DevOps using platforms` and tools like git, Hashi Corp Terraform, Hashi ,Corp Vault, Jenkins, Ansible
• Good familiarity with TCP/IP protocols and applications
• Strong desire for personal development and learning
• Able to communicate beyond technologies and talk solutions to engineers and senior management alike
• Good understanding of distributed systems
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with demonstrated technical leadership
• Client relationship skills and experience working with vendors Desired Skills *Experience in Test Driven Development (TDD) and agile methodologies, including refactoring *5+ years of full-stack Software Development *Experience developing cloud-based enterprise software *Experience leading a product or development team *Ability to incrementally define and improve system architecture as a product evolves *Experience modernizing legacy applications/systems in languages such as Java or C#/.NET