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Job Description
- Kubernetes Networking Platform Senior Engineer
- Employment Eligibility: Only USC or GC
- Experience - 6+ Years
- Location- Bethesda, MD (Hybrid)
Job Summary
Leads the design, delivery, and operation of enterprise Kubernetes networking capabilities, including ingress, service mesh, DNS, and traffic management.
This role focuses on building a secure, scalable, and observable platform that enables seamless service communication. The candidate will contribute to a modern platform engineering approach with a strong focus on automation, DevOps, and reliability.
Candidate Profile
Required
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent
- 6+ years of experience, including:
- 3+ years in platform/infrastructure engineering
- 3+ years with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Strong Kubernetes expertise:
- Networking fundamentals (CNI, service discovery, load balancing)
- Kubernetes primitives (Services, Ingress, NetworkPolicy)
- Hands-on experience with:
- Ingress/Gateway controllers (NGINX, ALB, etc.)
- Service mesh (Istio, Cilium)
- DNS systems (CoreDNS, External DNS)
- Experience with distributed systems (high availability, resiliency)
- Strong troubleshooting and automation skills
- Experience with Terraform, Helm, GitOps workflows
Preferred
- Programming skills (Go, Python, Java)
- Deep understanding of L4/L7 networking and traffic routing
- Experience with mTLS, zero-trust networking
- Service mesh at scale
- Observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK)
- Experience driving platform adoption and best practices
Core Responsibilities
Platform Engineering
- Design and operate Kubernetes networking (ingress, service mesh, DNS)
- Develop self-service networking solutions for application teams
- Implement traffic strategies (canary, blue/green, failover)
- Ensure secure communication using policies and mTLS
- Improve platform scalability, reliability, and performance
- Troubleshoot complex distributed systems
Operations & Reliability
- Participate in on-call rotation
- Support monitoring, logging, and observability tools
- Implement security controls (OPA, Vault, IAM)
- Support disaster recovery and system upgrades
- Analyze metrics and logs to drive improvements
Collaboration & Leadership
- Participate in architecture discussions
- Mentor junior engineers
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (engineering, cloud, security)
- Contribute to engineering standards and documentation
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