Kubernetes Platform Engineer

🚀 Hiring: Senior Kubernetes Platform Engineer 📍 Location: Chicago, IL OR Tempe, AZ ⏳ Duration: Contract-to-Hire Opportunity 🛂 Visa: USC / H4 EAD / L2 EAD 🎯 Strong communication & established LinkedIn required 💡 Role Overview: Looking for a hands-on Kubernetes Platform Engineer to support a large-scale enterprise Kubernetes (100+ clusters) environment, including production systems. This is a critical operations + platform sustainment role. 🔧 Must Have Skills: ✔ Strong Kubernetes (Production support) ✔ Core concepts: Pods, Deployments, StatefulSets, Services, Ingress ✔ Namespaces, RBAC, ConfigMaps, Secrets ✔ Troubleshooting (networking, scheduling, resources) ✔ Experience with platforms: VMware Tanzu / OpenShift / AKS / EKS ✔ Strong Linux administration ✔ Container runtime & image knowledge 🎯 Key Responsibilities: • Support day-to-day Kubernetes platform operations (100+ clusters) • Perform cluster maintenance, upgrades, patching & health checks • Troubleshoot platform & application issues • Participate in incident response & RCA • Provide on-call support & escalation coverage • Assist application teams with Kubernetes issues • Support networking, DNS, ingress, certificates, resource issues • Ensure platform stability, compliance & availability 🛠️ Enterprise Tools: ✔ Ingress: Contour / Envoy ✔ Logging: Fluent Bit ✔ Monitoring: Dynatrace (or similar) ✔ Container Registry: Harbor / JFrog ⭐ Nice to Have: ✔ VMware Tanzu experience ✔ Scripting (Bash / Python) ✔ Multi-cluster enterprise environment exposure 📩 Share strong profiles for Kubernetes Production Support roles #Hiring #Kubernetes #DevOps #PlatformEngineer #AKS #EKS #CloudJobs #TechJobs Ritika sharma  [Upgrade to PRO to see contact]