Senior Kubernetes Engineer
SGA Inc. · Posted Nov 11, 2026
- Remote, United States
- Remote
- Contract · Senior
- 8+ years
Senior Kubernetes Engineer
Responsibilities
- Design, deploy, and maintain production-grade Amazon EKS clusters architected for petabyte-scale data processing with high availability and fault tolerance
- Operate in air-gapped private VPC environments without internet access, managing secure package repositories and container registries
- Debug and resolve complex distributed systems issues across EKS, Karpenter, and Spark, including scheduling bottlenecks, node scaling delays, and cascading failures under heavy load
- Implement Karpenter consolidation and disruption policies balancing cost optimization with job resiliency
- Manage spot and on-demand instance strategies with robust node interruption handling
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related discipline
- Nice to have: Kubernetes certification (CKA, CKAD, or CKS)
- Nice to have: AWS certifications
- Nice to have: Active contributions to open-source Kubernetes, Karpenter, or Spark projects
- Nice to have: FinOps practices