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Oak Ridge National Laboratory · 1 day ago

Kubernetes Platform Engineer

Tennessee (TN)

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level

5+ years exp

Oak Ridge National Laboratory is seeking a Kubernetes Engineer to enhance the security, performance, and reliability of its computing infrastructure. The role involves operating, implementing, and maintaining on-premises Kubernetes clusters while collaborating with cybersecurity and development teams to meet compliance and usability standards.

Advanced MaterialsClean EnergyEnergyEnergy ManagementManufacturingNuclearRenewable Energy

No H1B

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Assist in day-to-day operations for on-premises and cloud-based Kubernetes clusters

Develop and integrate critical components for networking, CI/CD tooling, OS management, service mesh, and Kubernetes operators—excluding observability, which is handled by a dedicated SRE sub-team

Build test environments to evaluate tooling based on performance, feature set, and maintainability—especially for components that must work reliably with on-premise hardware and OS requirements

Work on upgrades, security hardening, monitoring integration, and scalability of all cluster infrastructure

Participant in an on-call rotation

Write and maintain infrastructure and deployment code using tools such as ArgoCD (GitOps), Puppet (OS management), Go, Python, Bash, and GitLab CI

Support the use and understanding of in-house Kubernetes operators and serve as a secondary maintainer for those controllers

Write and maintain automation for infrastructure provisioning and Kubernetes cluster lifecycle management – most of our K8s clusters run on bare metal

Write and maintain automation for configuration of host OS and Kubernetes tooling

Understand the principles of enterprise data centers and hardware management

Partner closely with internal cybersecurity and development teams to ensure the platform meets security, compliance, and usability expectations

Participate in cross-functional projects related to platform enhancements and cluster lifecycle automation

Be able to represent the Platforms team with vendors and both internal collaborators and partners

Qualification

KubernetesLinux SysadminInfrastructure as CodeCI/CD toolingData center hardwareScriptingAutomationCommunicationTeam collaborationProblem-solving

Required

BS degree in a scientific field and 5+ years of relevant experience or equivalent experience

At least three years of experience with Kubernetes cluster administration

At least three years of experience with Linux system administration

Knowledge of data center hardware and infrastructure management (IPMI, OpenManage, etc)

Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tooling such as Terraform, Helm, and Puppet

Experience with CI/CD tooling and GitOps

Experience with code review and familiarity with tools like git, GitHub and GitLab

Ability to obtain and maintain an HSPD-12 PIV badge

Real ID compliant form of identification will be required

Ability to obtain and maintain a federal Personal Identity Verification (PIV) card

Successful completion and pass a Federal Tier 1 background check investigation

Preferred

Excellent interpersonal/communications skills, and the ability to work as part of a team

Experience with managing image registries such as Quay or Harbor

Solid understanding of networked computing environment concepts

Strong working knowledge of Unix systems fundamentals and common network protocols

Ability to develop and maintain programs and scripts that aid in the operation and automation of tasks using various shell and scripting languages (primarily bash, Python, and Go)

Ability to identify requirements and to define, plan, and implement requisite solutions

Experience using tools such as Prometheus, Nagios, and Grafana to monitor systems, metrics and create dashboards

Experience designing and implementing highly available systems/services

Experience with Site Reliability Engineering for Kubernetes infrastructure and application deployments