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About Peraton
Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees solve the most daunting challenges that our customers face. Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.
About The Role
Peraton is seeking an experienced Senior Kubernetes Engineer to support development, modernization, and migration of containerized and agentic workloads in a government multi-cloud environment with 70+ customer tenants and growing.
The applicant must have extensive engineering experience and deep Kubernetes and Azure expertise, including designing and leading implementation of container-platform requirements and architecture on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), as well as standing up and operating Agentic Runtime for Kubernetes (ARK) to host AI-agent workloads. The Senior Kubernetes Engineer will serve as a technical escalation point, drive root cause analysis on complex incidents, and provide mentorship and knowledge sharing across engineering teams. A passion for performance, strong desire for quality conformance, and attention to detail are prerequisites for this position.
Location: Remote
Work Hours: This position requires working online from 8:00 AM Eastern to 5:00 PM Eastern
Day to Day Roles and Responsibilities:
Incident Response and Troubleshooting
- Serve as the Tier 3 escalation point for complex incidents and outages across the Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and ARK agentic-runtime environment
- Lead investigation and resolution of issues across the Kubernetes stack including AKS clusters, the control plane, CNI networking, ingress, CSI storage, and workload scheduling, as well as the ARK control plane and its Custom Resources (Agents, Models, Teams, Tools, and Queries)
- Drive root cause analysis on high-severity incidents and own implementation of solutions to prevent recurrence
- Manage high-priority incident communications with stakeholders, leadership, and affected tenants
Platform Monitoring and Optimization
- Define and enforce observability standards across tenant clusters using Azure Monitor, Managed Prometheus, Container Insights, Azure Log Analytics, and OpenTelemetry, including the agent-level telemetry emitted by ARK
- Lead proactive identification and mitigation of cluster, node-pool, and workload risks before they impact tenants
- Analyze performance, cost, and capacity trends and architect optimizations to improve stability, efficiency, and security at scale
Kubernetes and ARK Platform Engineering
- Lead management and maintenance of Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters and the ARK agentic runtime across a 70+ tenant environment
- Deploy, upgrade, and operate ARK on Kubernetes — managing its CRDs, controllers, and model and tool integrations (including MCP servers) to host AI agents declaratively and provider-agnostically
- Ensure all tenant resources are secure, FedRAMP compliant, and continuously optimized, enforcing Kubernetes RBAC, network policy, and Azure workload identity
- Partner with the Architecture team to design solutions aligned with the Azure Well-Architected Framework and Kubernetes best practices, and own and enforce Change Management procedures across the team
Collaboration, Mentorship, and Knowledge Sharing
- Serve as technical lead for incident intake, triage prioritization, and team workload management
- Mentor and train Tier 2 engineers on Kubernetes and agentic-runtime operations; lead knowledge transfer sessions to build team capability
- Drive improvements in team metrics and service delivery in coordination with the Service Delivery Manager and Product Owner
- Maintain comprehensive documentation of incident response procedures, architecture decisions, and lessons learned
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelors degree and 8 years of experience or a Masters degree and 6 years of experience or an Associates degree and 10 year of experience or a High School diploma/equivalent and 12 years of experience.
- Must be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain a DHS Public Trust clearance.
- Engineering and systems analysis experience, with a deep hands-on focus on Kubernetes in production
- Extensive hands-on expertise operating Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and the broader Kubernetes stack — control plane, CNI networking, ingress, CSI storage, RBAC, Helm, and workload scheduling
- Hands-on experience deploying and operating Agentic Runtime for Kubernetes (ARK) or comparable Kubernetes-native agent or operator platforms built on the CRD-plus-controller pattern (e.g., Argo), including ARK Custom Resources (Agents, Models, Teams, Tools, and Queries) and MCP/A2A integration
- Proven experience leading incident management and root cause analysis in large-scale, multi-tenant government environments, with deep knowledge of FedRAMP compliance and Kubernetes and Azure security best practices
- Strong leadership, communication, and technical documentation skills; ability to communicate effectively with both technical teams and senior stakeholders
Preferred Qualifications:
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD), plus Microsoft Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104) or Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305)
- Proficiency with GitOps and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Bicep, Helm, and Argo CD or Flux) and CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions)
- Advanced scripting with Python, PowerShell, or Go for automation and remediation, including use of the ARK Python SDK (ark-sdk)
- Experience integrating LLM providers (Azure OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, or local models) behind an agentic runtime
Details
Target Salary Range: $104,000 - $166,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the individual’s experience, education, knowledge, skills, and competencies, as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.
Benefits Statement: Peraton offers eligible employees a variety of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, health savings account, short/long term disability, EAP, parental leave, 401(k), paid time off (PTO) for vacation, and company paid holidays. A full listing of available benefits can be viewed at https://www.careers.peraton.com/benefits.
Application Statements: The application period for the job is estimated to be 30 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates. By applying to this job, you are expressing interest in the role and the Company. During the review of your application, you may be required to participate in an on-camera interview, as well as participate in a process to verify your identity. Use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools of any kind during Peraton interviews is strictly prohibited unless the candidate has obtained prior written authorization. All interview responses must be the candidate’s own.
EEO: Equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veterans, or other characteristics protected by law.
About Peraton
Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees solve the most daunting challenges that our customers face. Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.
About The Role
Peraton is seeking an experienced Senior Kubernetes Engineer to support development, modernization, and migration of containerized and agentic workloads in a government multi-cloud environment with 70+ customer tenants and growing.
The applicant must have extensive engineering experience and deep Kubernetes and Azure expertise, including designing and leading implementation of container-platform requirements and architecture on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), as well as standing up and operating Agentic Runtime for Kubernetes (ARK) to host AI-agent workloads. The Senior Kubernetes Engineer will serve as a technical escalation point, drive root cause analysis on complex incidents, and provide mentorship and knowledge sharing across engineering teams. A passion for performance, strong desire for quality conformance, and attention to detail are prerequisites for this position.
Location: Remote
Work Hours: This position requires working online from 8:00 AM Eastern to 5:00 PM Eastern
Day to Day Roles and Responsibilities:
Incident Response and Troubleshooting
- Serve as the Tier 3 escalation point for complex incidents and outages across the Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and ARK agentic-runtime environment
- Lead investigation and resolution of issues across the Kubernetes stack including AKS clusters, the control plane, CNI networking, ingress, CSI storage, and workload scheduling, as well as the ARK control plane and its Custom Resources (Agents, Models, Teams, Tools, and Queries)
- Drive root cause analysis on high-severity incidents and own implementation of solutions to prevent recurrence
- Manage high-priority incident communications with stakeholders, leadership, and affected tenants
Platform Monitoring and Optimization
- Define and enforce observability standards across tenant clusters using Azure Monitor, Managed Prometheus, Container Insights, Azure Log Analytics, and OpenTelemetry, including the agent-level telemetry emitted by ARK
- Lead proactive identification and mitigation of cluster, node-pool, and workload risks before they impact tenants
- Analyze performance, cost, and capacity trends and architect optimizations to improve stability, efficiency, and security at scale
Kubernetes and ARK Platform Engineering
- Lead management and maintenance of Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters and the ARK agentic runtime across a 70+ tenant environment
- Deploy, upgrade, and operate ARK on Kubernetes — managing its CRDs, controllers, and model and tool integrations (including MCP servers) to host AI agents declaratively and provider-agnostically
- Ensure all tenant resources are secure, FedRAMP compliant, and continuously optimized, enforcing Kubernetes RBAC, network policy, and Azure workload identity
- Partner with the Architecture team to design solutions aligned with the Azure Well-Architected Framework and Kubernetes best practices, and own and enforce Change Management procedures across the team
Collaboration, Mentorship, and Knowledge Sharing
- Serve as technical lead for incident intake, triage prioritization, and team workload management
- Mentor and train Tier 2 engineers on Kubernetes and agentic-runtime operations; lead knowledge transfer sessions to build team capability
- Drive improvements in team metrics and service delivery in coordination with the Service Delivery Manager and Product Owner
- Maintain comprehensive documentation of incident response procedures, architecture decisions, and lessons learned
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelors degree and 8 years of experience or a Masters degree and 6 years of experience or an Associates degree and 10 year of experience or a High School diploma/equivalent and 12 years of experience.
- Must be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain a DHS Public Trust clearance.
- Engineering and systems analysis experience, with a deep hands-on focus on Kubernetes in production
- Extensive hands-on expertise operating Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and the broader Kubernetes stack — control plane, CNI networking, ingress, CSI storage, RBAC, Helm, and workload scheduling
- Hands-on experience deploying and operating Agentic Runtime for Kubernetes (ARK) or comparable Kubernetes-native agent or operator platforms built on the CRD-plus-controller pattern (e.g., Argo), including ARK Custom Resources (Agents, Models, Teams, Tools, and Queries) and MCP/A2A integration
- Proven experience leading incident management and root cause analysis in large-scale, multi-tenant government environments, with deep knowledge of FedRAMP compliance and Kubernetes and Azure security best practices
- Strong leadership, communication, and technical documentation skills; ability to communicate effectively with both technical teams and senior stakeholders
Preferred Qualifications:
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD), plus Microsoft Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104) or Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305)
- Proficiency with GitOps and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Bicep, Helm, and Argo CD or Flux) and CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions)
- Advanced scripting with Python, PowerShell, or Go for automation and remediation, including use of the ARK Python SDK (ark-sdk)
- Experience integrating LLM providers (Azure OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, or local models) behind an agentic runtime
Details
Target Salary Range: $104,000 - $166,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the individual’s experience, education, knowledge, skills, and competencies, as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.
Benefits Statement: Peraton offers eligible employees a variety of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, health savings account, short/long term disability, EAP, parental leave, 401(k), paid time off (PTO) for vacation, and company paid holidays. A full listing of available benefits can be viewed at https://www.careers.peraton.com/benefits.
Application Statements: The application period for the job is estimated to be 30 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates. By applying to this job, you are expressing interest in the role and the Company. During the review of your application, you may be required to participate in an on-camera interview, as well as participate in a process to verify your identity. Use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools of any kind during Peraton interviews is strictly prohibited unless the candidate has obtained prior written authorization. All interview responses must be the candidate’s own.
EEO: Equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veterans, or other characteristics protected by law.
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Who's Hiring
Top Industries Hiring
- Technology & Software
- Law & Legal Services
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in remote kubernetes engineer jobs.
- Hands-on experience deploying and operating production Kubernetes clusters at scale
- Proficiency with container runtimes, Docker, and container image build pipelines
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or Helm
- Familiarity with CI/CD platforms including Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI
- Knowledge of cloud providers such as AWS, GCP, or Azure and their managed Kubernetes services
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical field
Tips for Your Remote Kubernetes Engineer Job Search
Show your async communication style upfront
Remote kubernetes engineer teams rely on written documentation to coordinate across time zones. Share runbooks, incident post-mortems, or architecture decision records you've written so hiring managers can see you can communicate clearly without a synchronous meeting.
Apply early to remote roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists remote kubernetes engineer openings from across the U.S. in one place, so you can find roles that match your stack and apply directly without sorting through location-filtered listings on general job boards.
Build a public Kubernetes portfolio
Push real cluster configs, Helm charts, or GitOps workflows to a public repository. Remote employers can't watch you work in person, so a visible body of infrastructure code is one of the most direct ways to prove your skills before an interview.
Prepare for remote-specific technical interviews
Distributed engineering teams often run take-home infrastructure exercises instead of or alongside live coding screens. Practice diagnosing broken Kubernetes manifests, writing resource limits and readiness probes, and explaining your reasoning clearly in written form.
Remote Kubernetes Engineer Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a remote kubernetes engineer job?
Target remote-first companies and distributed engineering teams that rely on Kubernetes to run production workloads at scale, because those employers actively seek candidates who can own infrastructure independently. Remote hiring managers screen for deep hands-on experience with cluster management, Helm, and CI/CD pipelines alongside strong written communication and the ability to debug issues asynchronously. A public GitHub repo showing real Kubernetes configs or contributions to open-source projects gives you a concrete edge.
Which companies hire remote kubernetes engineers?
Employers currently hiring remote kubernetes engineers include Invoice Cloud, Cadre5, and Cognizant, per current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of September 2026. Remote-first software companies, cloud-native startups, and distributed platform teams across fintech, SaaS, and enterprise technology tend to hire kubernetes engineers without location requirements.
Can you get a remote kubernetes engineer job with no experience?
Yes, but remote entry-level kubernetes engineer roles are harder to land because employers expect you to troubleshoot cluster issues independently without a team nearby. Cloud-native startups and smaller distributed teams are more open to junior candidates than large enterprises. Building a homelab cluster, earning a Certified Kubernetes Administrator credential, and publishing your configs publicly can substitute for paid experience and demonstrate the self-direction remote employers need.
Do you need a degree for remote kubernetes engineer jobs?
Not always. Remote kubernetes engineer roles are heavily skills-driven, and many employers weigh demonstrated hands-on ability over a formal degree. What matters most is proven experience managing production clusters, familiarity with tools like Kubernetes, Terraform, and Prometheus, and a portfolio or work history showing you can operate independently. A degree may still be listed as preferred, but it rarely disqualifies a strong candidate.
Which industries hire the most remote kubernetes engineers?
The sectors hiring the most remote kubernetes engineers are Technology & Software and Law & Legal Services, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of September 2026. These industries run complex, distributed systems that depend on Kubernetes for reliability and scale, making remote infrastructure engineers a practical hire for teams spread across time zones.
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