Kubernetes Engineer

Description Quantum Sky is searching for a Kubernetes Engineer to support the US Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC), Operational Command and Control Acquisition Delta, known as Kobayashi Maru. Kobayashi Maru is responsible for continuously delivering impactful software for space operations. The program office’s mission includes the development and deployment of software for space defense, space domain awareness, and enabling data services. Responsibilities: Leveraging Kubernetes technology to deliver, install, upgrade, patch and maintain highly reliable and resilient solutions for deploying and hosting current and future tools and services needed to develop, test, secure, and ship software applications to production. Perform within an Agile framework including conducting daily stand up, welcome feedback often, sprint/iteration planning, duration planning, retrospectives, executing from the product backlog and roadmap, meeting performance metrics, and reporting on progress and blockers. Securing and configuring containerized services orchestrated with Kubernetes, and its underlying environment. Tuning Kubernetes performance and identifying problems by using service and traffic metrics by establishing monitoring and alerting dashboards. Lead for the lifecycle management of all containerized services used in the development of Kobayashi Maru software. Troubleshooting containerized-services and publishing root cause analysis (RCAs) and postmortems with the larger portfolio