Senior Kubernetes Platform Engineer

Job overview

The Senior Kubernetes Platform Engineer role is onsite five days per week in Lafayette, LA. Compensation is not specified. The role supports production Amazon EKS environments in an AWS-centered infrastructure for System One’s client; the posting also lists Knoxville, TN, and Birmingham, AL, as locations. The engineer owns the Kubernetes platform lifecycle and helps maintain availability, security, and operational controls across production environments. The role builds automation, observability, and reliability practices and supports incident response and performance troubleshooting for containerized services.

What you'll do

• Provision, upgrade, manage, and plan retirement of Kubernetes clusters and node pools
• optimize networking, ingress, and secure traffic flows
• implement autoscaling and resilience testing
• establish metrics, logs, traces, and alerting
• apply RBAC, policy enforcement, image controls, secrets management, and runtime hardening
• automate infrastructure using Terraform or CloudFormation and GitOps-style workflows
• support incident response and performance troubleshooting.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

senior kubernetes platform engineer

full-time

lafayette la

knoxville tn

birmingham al

system one

amazon eks

aws

kubernetes

terraform

cloudformation

gitops

platform engineering

five days onsite

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Why this role

Requires 5+ years in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering with production Kubernetes experience, and a bachelor’s degree in a related technical field. Five days onsite.

About the employer

System One is hiring for this role. Industry: Employment Placement Agencies. Sector: 56.