KMM Technologies, Inc.

KMM Technologies, Inc.

Kubernetes Engineer

Rockville, Maryland

Sponsorship not specified$0k-$0kDetected 9 days ago
Node.jsDistributed SystemsAWSKubernetesSparkData Engineering

About the role

  • We are seeking an expert Kubernetes engineer to configure, deploy, and operate mission-critical Amazon EKS infrastructure supporting petabyte-scale data processing workloads.
  • 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

Responsibilities

  • Design, deploy, and maintain production-grade Amazon EKS clusters architected for petabyte-scale data processing with high availability and fault tolerance
  • Implement Karpenter consolidation and disruption policies balancing cost optimization with job resiliency
  • Manage spot and on-demand instance strategies with robust node interruption handling
  • Optimize storage configurations for resiliency, high-throughput data processing workloads
  • Implement logging, alerting, and anomaly detection to identify provisioning failures, executor loss, and throughput degradation before broader system impact
  • Design fault-tolerant architectures with retry strategies, checkpointing, and graceful degradation patterns minimizing re-computation on failure
  • Develop and manage configs in a private VPC without internet access
  • This role requires deep technical expertise in Kubernetes internals, large-scale cluster management, and Apache Spark optimization to support thousands of concurrent jobs processing large volumes of Bigdata.

Nice to have

  • Kubernetes certification (CKA, CKAD, or CKS) & AWS certifications
  • Active contributions to open-source Kubernetes, Karpenter, or Spark projects
  • Familiarity with FinOps practices and cost optimization at scale
  • Background in data engineering or analytics platforms

Compensation

  • $0k-$0k

Visa & Work Authorization

  • Only h1B on C2C through employers

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