Kubernetes Engineer

Title: Kubernetes Engineer

Location: McLean, VA

W2 rate: $55 per hour

Visa: H1 transfer / H4 EAD/USC/GC

Relocation is okay

Top Skills' Details:

1. Kubernetes & Kubernetes Governance (RBAC, Network Policy, Admission Control) experience

2. Familiarity with Kubernetes standards like CIS Benchmarks

3. Comfortable with assessing usage patterns for Kubernetes / cloud resources

4. Telemetry / Observability (especially for Kubernetes)

5. Familiarity with containerized application, build & deploy best practices

6. Nice to have - ECS experience

7. Python programming

Job Description:

With Capital One's acquisition Discover Financial they are looking to move all of their applications off of OpenShift and onto Capital One's Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Services (EKS). Project is called "container runtime convergence"

Team will be responsible for:

• Looking for gaps in Kubernetes the Gap Analysis of additional controls will be due by May 2026
• Enable applications that are being retained to run on EKS or EKS Fargate
• Move into Capital One's AWS environment
• Wants Engineers with Container experience to understand if they should be targeting EKS or EKS Fargate
• What needs to be added to OpenShift to make it well governed
• How DFS governs OpenShift and how Capital one wants to run it

Thanks