Kubernetes Engineer (Mid to Senior)

Dark Wolf is seeking multiple levels of Kubernetes Engineers to provide technical leadership in designing, building, and maintaining elastic, secure, and resilient cloud foundations. The Kubernetes Engineers will architect multi-cloud and hybrid environments (EKS/Fargate, AKS, GKE, or self-hosted), drive GitOps-based CI/CD pipelines, and sustain critical platform initiatives—including Iron Bank and Big Bang integrations. You will lead technical teams, implement zero-downtime and disaster recovery strategies, and enforce strict security, compliance, and RBAC policies across all operational environments. The Kubernetes Engineers will operate in a hybrid capacity out of any of our Dark Wolf offices.

Mid-level Engineer:

Provisioning, configuring, and monitoring containerized workloads and database solutions across Dev, Test, and Live environments using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Helm.

Packaging and hardening applications into containers; assist with upstream synchronization, vulnerability remediation, and documentation updates for Big Bang and Iron Bank packages.

Supporting Continuous Integration and Delivery pipelines, managing container registries and GitOps workflows.

Resolving operational incident escalations, troubleshoot functional/performance issues, and assist with zero-downtime release deployments.

Required Qualifications:

3-5 years of relevant experience

3+ years of cloud/container engineering experience

Experience working on DevSecOps teams

Experience with cloud systems, such as AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure, by supporting deployments and architecture setups

Experience with Helm Charts

Understanding of each component of Kubernetes control plan

Security and compliance knowledge for Kubernetes

Knowledge of Linux and networking

CKA Certification highly desired

Senior-level Engineer:

Senior-level Engineer Responsibilities:

Implementing service-mesh (Istio) configurations, custom Helm charts, Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs), and custom admission controllers.

Overseeing 100% compliance and security postures for assigned Platform One/Big Bang packages, ensuring successful release branch merges and upstream syncs.

Designing network connectivity, zero-downtime deployment strategies, and multi-region failover/failback procedures.

Leading technical tasks within Agile teams, contribute to capacity planning and demand forecasting, and provide direct technical mentorship to junior/mid-level engineers.

Functioning as a technical expert across the team and tasks

Required Qualifications:

5-7 years of relevant experience

5+ years of experience working with Kubernetes/containers

Experience working on DevSecOps teams

Strong experience with infrastructure tools like Helm, Docker, and Terraform

Experience with Istio

Security and compliance knowledge for Kubernetes

Knowledge of multiple cloud platforms, such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud

Experience in building automation and configuration management tools (e.g. Ansible, Terraform)

Extensive knowledge of Linux and networking

Experience with Helm Charts

CKA Certification

Subject Matter Expert (SME) Engineer

Architecting elastic, cost-effective, resilient cloud foundations using loosely coupled designs across multi-cloud and hybrid environments.

Designing multi-datacenter Disaster Recovery (DR) strategies, zero-downtime architectures, and complex data protection/auditing frameworks.

Assessing and establishing strategic RBAC standards, platform security policies, and continuous compliance frameworks across all enterprise Kubernetes clusters (including Iron Bank).

Providing top-tier technical authority across Platform One infrastructure and innovation teams, shape long-term capacity forecasts, and make critical architectural decisions.

Providing technical/management leadership on major tasks or technology assignments.

Required Qualifications:

8+ years of relevant experience

7+ years of experience working with Kubernetes/containers

3+ years of experience providing technical guidance to other engineers

Experience on DevSecOps teams

Expertise with infrastructure tools like Helm, Docker, and Terraform

Expertise with Platform One tools

Knowledge of multiple cloud platforms, such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud

Expertise with Istio

Deep knowledge of security and compliance for Kubernetes

Strong experience in building automation and configuration management tools (e.g. Ansible, Terraform)

Extensive expertise of Linux and networking

• The estimated salary range for these positions are:
• Mid - $110,000.00 - $160,000.00, commensurate on experience and technical skillset
• Senior - $150,000.00 - $180,000.00 commensurate on experience and technical skillset
• SME - $180,000.00 - $220,000.00, commensurate on experience and technical skillset

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