Home Jobs Kubernetes Engineer Kubernetes Engineer Jobs Kubernetes Engineers specialise in designing, deploying, and operating Kubernetes clusters at production scale — multi-tenancy, networking, security policy, custom operators, GitOps deployment, and platform team tooling. The role overlaps with Platform / SRE / DevOps but signals deeper Kubernetes-specific depth.
Salary by Experience Level Junior
$100,000 – $135,000
per year
Mid-Level
$140,000 – $195,000
per year
Senior
$200,000 – $300,000
per year
Required Skills Kubernetes (cluster ops, RBAC, networking) Helm / Kustomize Custom Operators (Go + Operator SDK) GitOps (ArgoCD, Flux) Service Mesh (Istio, Linkerd) CNI plugins (Cilium, Calico) eBPF basics Cluster security (OPA, Kyverno)
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