Kubernetes Engineer - Mid
Nalley Consulting
- Location
- Hybrid (Doral, FL)
- Employment
- Full-time
- Level
- Senior Level
Posted 2 days ago
About the Role
Nalley Consulting is seeking a Kubernetes Engineer to join their team at SOUTHCOM HQ in Doral, FL. This role involves configuring, deploying, and maintaining Kubernetes clusters for various environments and integrating them with agency infrastructure.
Skills
Kubernetes
Helm Charts
Container Networking
CI/CD Pipelines
AWS
Azure
GCP
Prometheus
Grafana
ELK Stack
Istio
Linkerd
Terraform
Ansible
Cloud-native Design
Container Storage
Benefits
- Medical Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Paid Time Off
- Paid Federal Holidays
- Tuition Assistance
- Paid Military-reserve Leave
- Paid Parental Leave
- 401k Matching
- Flex Time
- Short-term Disability Insurance
- Long-term Disability Insurance
- Life Insurance
Full job details
Join the Nalley Consulting team at Southcom HQ.
Position: Kubernetes Engineer
LCAT: Mid
Location: SOUTHCOM HQ, Doral, FL / Off-site
Office: U.S. SOUTHERN Command J2
Required clearance: No
Required education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cloud Computing, or a related field, or five (5) years of equivalent experience in Kubernetes administration.
Description:
Position: Kubernetes Engineer
LCAT: Mid
Location: SOUTHCOM HQ, Doral, FL / Off-site
Office: U.S. SOUTHERN Command J2
Required clearance: No
Required education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cloud Computing, or a related field, or five (5) years of equivalent experience in Kubernetes administration.
Description:
- Configure, deploy, and maintain Kubernetes clusters tailored for each IL environment (IL2, IL4, IL5), ensuring support for ESRI ArcGIS services and integration with agency-provided infrastructure.
- Develop and manage Helm charts and Kubernetes Operators for declarative deployment and automated scaling of ESRI services, including Notebook Server and GeoAnalytics Server.
- Configure persistent volume claims and provision container-native storage (e.g., AWS EBS, Azure Disks) to support ESRI workloads, ensuring durability and compliance with backup and recovery policies.
- Integrate Kubernetes-native monitoring and logging solutions (e.g., Prometheus, Fluentd, or OpenTelemetry) to support observability and IL-compliant reporting across environments
- Possess the knowledge and capability to design, deploy, and manage containerized applications in a cloud-native environment using Kubernetes.
- Proficient in Kubernetes cluster orchestration, container networking, Helm chart deployment, and automation of CI/CD pipelines.
- Strong knowledge of cloud infrastructure services (AWS, Azure, GCP), security best practices, and Kubernetes monitoring/logging tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack) is required.
- Demonstrated experience in deploying and managing Kubernetes clusters, troubleshooting containerized applications, and implementing service mesh architectures such as Istio or Linkerd. Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform or Ansible is required.
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional, or Google Cloud Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer.
ABOUT NALLEY CONSULTING
Nalley Consulting is a Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business working with prime partners to staff Department of Defense and Intelligence Community positions. Created by a U.S. Navy intelligence veteran, Nalley Consulting has grown to include multiple IDIQ vehicles in several states.
Nalley Consulting fringe benefits include:
- Excellent medical, dental, and vision benefits
- PTO
- 11 paid federal holidays
- Tuition assistance
- Paid military-reserve leave
- Paid parental leave for birth or adoption
- 401k matching up to 5 percent of the base salary
- Flex time
- Company-paid short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance.
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