Senior Kubernetes Engineer

Senior Kubernetes Engineer

Open to NY/NJ/Rockville/Tysons

Core Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain production-grade Amazon EKS clusters architected for petabyte-scale data processing with high availability and fault tolerance
• Operate in air-gapped private VPC environments without internet access, managing secure package repositories and container registries
• Debug and resolve complex distributed systems issues across EKS, Karpenter, and Spark, including scheduling bottlenecks, node scaling delays, and cascading failures under heavy load
• Implement Karpenter consolidation and disruption policies balancing cost optimization with job resiliency

Preferred Qualifications

• Kubernetes certification (CKA, CKAD, or CKS) & AWS certifications
• Active contributions to open-source Kubernetes, Karpenter, or Spark projects
• Familiarity with FinOps practices and cost optimization at scale

Background in data engineering or analytics platforms