About the role

Role overview

Leidos is seeking a Principal Kubernetes Engineer to serve as the senior technical lead for one of four Kubernetes platform environments. You will design, build, and continuously evolve a secure, scalable, and highly available Kubernetes platform (PaaS) that enables rapid software delivery across hybrid cloud and on-prem environments.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and operate enterprise Kubernetes platforms for secure hybrid cloud and on-premises environments.
Architect resilient, scalable, highly available platform services for secure software delivery across mission environments.
Create reusable platform capabilities to simplify application deployment, operations, and lifecycle management.
Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC), automation, and continuous delivery to improve consistency and reliability.
Engineer secure Kubernetes services (identity management, policy enforcement, workload isolation, secrets management, platform hardening).
Optimize performance, scalability, networking, storage, resource utilization, and overall operational health.
Troubleshoot complex production issues across Kubernetes, Linux, networking, storage, and distributed systems.
Collaborate with cloud engineers, cybersecurity professionals, software developers, and product managers to deliver integrated platform solutions.
Improve observability with metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards, and proactive monitoring.
Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend improvements to security, developer experience, and operations.
Create and maintain engineering standards, technical documentation, and architectural guidance.
Provide technical leadership via architecture reviews, design discussions, mentoring, and best practices.

Qualifications (Must-haves)

Master’s degree with 15+ years relevant experience, or Doctorate with 13+ years (additional experience may substitute for degree).
8+ years progressively responsible experience designing, building, and operating production Kubernetes platforms.
Strong expertise in Azure Cloud Engineering and cloud infrastructure.
Proven expertise securing and operating enterprise Kubernetes for highly available production workloads.
Experience building cloud-native infrastructure and platforms across hybrid cloud environments.

Travel

Requires 25% travel.

About Leidos

Leidos is a U.S.-based technology and engineering services company that delivers advanced solutions for government and mission-critical customers. In this role, Leidos supports the U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command by building a secure, enterprise Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) based on Kubernetes in hybrid cloud and on-prem environments.