Senior Kubernetes Platform Engineer

Senior Kubernetes Platform Engineer

All IT Solutions

United States · Peoria, IL, USA

Workplace Type — On-site

Employment Type — Contract

We are currently seeking a qualified Senior Kubernetes Platform Engineer to support this engagement. Please review the complete requirements, work location, employment type, and screening questions before applying. Candidates whose experience closely matches the position will be contacted directly by the AIS recruiting team.

Job Summary

All IT Solutions is seeking a Senior Kubernetes Platform Engineer to join a client engagement.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, deployment, and lifecycle management of highly available Kubernetes platforms across hybrid environments to ensure resilience, scalability, and operational consistency
• Establish secure multi-tenant platform standards that strengthen governance, resource efficiency, and workload isolation across teams
• Build automated, GitOps-driven platform operations for provisioning, upgrades, patching, scaling, and decommissioning to reduce risk and improve delivery speed
• Define platform standards for deployment, observability, and service operations that improve consistency and reduce engineering friction
• Embed security and compliance controls into the platform through policy, identity, secrets management, and workload protection practices
• Establish observability capabilities that accelerate issue detection, improve incident response, and support data-driven reliability management
• Own and improve platform service objectives, operational readiness, and support practices to sustain reliable production operations
• Resolve complex platform issues across networking, storage, and runtime layers while driving long-term architectural improvements
• Collaborate with application and security teams to standardize deployment patterns, improve reliability, and support platform adoption
• Drive continuous improvement in automation, performance, and cost efficiency to increase platform value and reduce operational overhead
• This position supports the delivery of enterprise AI capabilities through a secure, scalable, and reliable Kubernetes platform
• Establish the initial Kubernetes platform foundation across cloud and on-premises environments, including core cluster patterns to support early AI workload onboarding
• Implement baseline GitOps, access, security, and operational controls to improve consistency, reduce deployment risk, and support production readiness
• Define an operating model for the platform, including support expectations, reliability priorities, and an approach to scale for enterprise AI workloads

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree
• For the Senior Kubernetes Platform Engineer
• 10 years of experience
• Proven success building and evolving production-grade Kubernetes platforms across cloud, on-premises, or hybrid environments
• Demonstrated experience operating Kubernetes at scale, including responsibility for reliability, security, and platform lifecycle management
• Deep expertise in Linux, cluster networking, and storage architecture, including the ability to diagnose issues across the infrastructure stack
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure as code and release automation in production environments, including Terraform and Helm-based platform delivery
• Experience using GitOps tools such as Argo CD or Flux to manage deployments and improve control, consistency, and delivery efficiency in production environments
• Strong hands-on Kubernetes security experience, including RBAC, network policies, secrets and key management, admission or policy enforcement, and production cluster hardening in enterprise environments
• Kubernetes platform administration, operations, and lifecycle management
• Helm-based release and configuration management
• Infrastructure as code, automation, and platform provisioning
• GitOps-driven deployment and configuration management
• At least one major cloud platform, preferably AWS or Azure
• Enterprise cloud and hybrid platform environments
• Platform security controls, policy enforcement, and workload protection
• Observability, monitoring, and operational readiness practices

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with enterprise Kubernetes distributions and managed services such as EKS, AKS, GKE, OpenShift, or Rancher
• Familiarity with service mesh capabilities that support traffic management, security, and platform resilience
• Exposure to modern observability frameworks, including OpenTelemetry, to support scalable monitoring practices
• Familiarity with container image security, vulnerability scanning, and software supply chain practices that strengthen overall platform security maturity
• Experience supporting enterprise AI platforms, including Accenture
• The Senior Kubernetes Platform Engineer is responsible for the design, operation, and continuous improvement of the Kubernetes platform supporting a shared enterprise AI offering aligned to Accenture AI Refinery. This position enables secure, scalable, and well-governed AI workloads by advancing platform reliability, operational maturity, developer enablement, and the controls required to support critical services across cloud and on-premises environments
• Position Contributions to the Group
• The role is responsible for establishing the platform foundation required to support governed AI workloads across cloud and on-premises environments, with emphasis on operational stability, security, and enterprise scalability

ABOUT ALL IT SOLUTIONS LLC

Headquartered in Mount Laurel, New Jersey, All IT Solutions LLC is a technology and workforce solutions company serving government and commercial organizations throughout the United States. AIS provides IT staffing and staff augmentation, cybersecurity, IT consulting, custom software development, cloud services, data engineering, artificial intelligence, application development, and related technology solutions.

AIS is an NMSDC/EMSDC-certified Minority Business Enterprise and an NYC Department of Small Business Services-certified M/WBE. We participate in E-Verify and are committed to maintaining professional, transparent, and compliant hiring practices.

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

All IT Solutions LLC is an equal opportunity employer.

Employment decisions are made based on qualifications, merit, performance, and legitimate business requirements without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

Reasonable accommodations are available to qualified applicants with disabilities during the application and interview process.

RECRUITMENT NOTICE

All IT Solutions LLC is a staffing and technology services company and may receive fees or compensation from client organizations for recruiting, staffing, placement, or workforce services. Candidates are never charged an application, recruitment, placement, or interview fee by All IT Solutions LLC.

Any commercial rates, fees, or staffing arrangements are between All IT Solutions LLC and its clients and do not require payment from the candidate.

Official recruiting communications will come from an authorized All IT Solutions representative or an @allitsolutions.us email address.

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