Kubernetes Platform Engineer

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United StatesOnsiteContractPosted 18 days ago

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Seeking a Kubernetes Platform Engineer for a 6-month contract in Philadelphia, PA, to modernize voice services. The role involves assessing existing infrastructure, designing and implementing Kubernetes-based architectures for high-availability and low-latency workloads, containerizing applications, and building CI/CD pipelines. Responsibilities include infrastructure automation with Ansible and Terraform, deploying and supporting cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, OpenStack), implementing observability solutions, and ensuring operational best practices for security and resiliency. The engineer will also support migration activities and troubleshoot issues across cloud-native environments, providing documentation and knowledge transfer.

Job Title: Kubernetes Platform Engineer – Voice Services Modernization

Duration: 6 Months

Location: Philadelphia, PA

Core Responsibilities

• Assess existing voice applications, infrastructure dependencies, and VM-based deployment environments

• Design Kubernetes-based architectures optimized for latency-sensitive and high-availability voice workloads

• Containerize middleware and backend applications and establish scalable deployment strategies

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated testing, deployment, and lifecycle management

• Develop infrastructure automation using Ansible and Terraform

• Deploy, configure, and support Kubernetes and cloud platforms across AWS, Azure, GCP, OpenStack, or OpenShift

• Implement observability solutions including centralized logging, monitoring, alerting, and dashboarding

• Apply operational best practices for security, resiliency, scalability, and production support

• Support staged migration planning, testing validation, and production cutover activities

• Troubleshoot application, platform, and infrastructure issues across cloud-native environments

• Create operational documentation and provide knowledge transfer to engineering and operations teams

• Collaborate with development, operations, and architecture teams to modernize legacy voice services Required Technical Skills

• Expert-level Kubernetes administration, deployment, lifecycle management, and troubleshooting

• Strong Ansible experience including role and playbook development

• CI/CD pipeline development and automation experience

• Cloud platform administration (AWS, Azure, GCP, OpenStack)

• Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform

• Experience with monitoring, logging, dashboarding, and alerting platforms

• Scripting or programming experience (Python preferred)

• Production applications support and operational troubleshooting

• Understanding of high-availability and low-latency application architectures

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