Position Title: Kubernetes Platform Engineer – Voice Services Modernization (Confidential Client)
Location: Philadelphia, PA | Hybrid
Employment Type: Contract

Compensation

Pay Rate: $65/hr (W2 only). Candidates requiring a rate higher than $65/hr may be considered; preference will be given to candidates who are willing to accept $65/hr or less.

Position Summary

The Kubernetes Platform Engineer – Voice Services Modernization is responsible for designing, deploying, automating, and operationalizing cloud-native infrastructure for mission-critical voice applications. This role focuses on transforming traditional VM-based voice middleware and backend services into scalable, resilient Kubernetes-based platforms using modern DevOps, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, and observability practices.

The engineer will work across infrastructure, application modernization, automation, and operational support to ensure highly available, low-latency voice services are successfully migrated into production cloud-native environments.

Outcome / Business Objective: Deliver a production-ready, Kubernetes-based runtime environment for voice middleware and backend services that improves scalability, resilience, automation, and operational efficiency while minimizing service disruption and migration risk.

Primary Functions

Assess existing voice applications, infrastructure dependencies, and VM-based deployment environments.
Design Kubernetes-based architectures optimized for latency-sensitive and high-availability voice workloads.
Containerize middleware and backend applications and establish scalable deployment strategies.
Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated testing, deployment, and lifecycle management.
Develop infrastructure automation using Ansible and Terraform.
Deploy, configure, and support Kubernetes and cloud platforms across AWS, Azure, GCP, OpenStack, or OpenShift.
Implement observability solutions including centralized logging, monitoring, alerting, and dashboarding.
Apply operational best practices for security, resiliency, scalability, and production support.
Support staged migration planning, testing validation, and production cutover activities.
Troubleshoot application, platform, and infrastructure issues across cloud-native environments.
Create operational documentation and provide knowledge transfer to engineering and operations teams.
Collaborate with development, operations, and architecture teams to modernize legacy voice services.

Must-Haves

Expert-level Kubernetes administration, deployment, lifecycle management, and troubleshooting.
Strong Ansible experience including role and playbook development.
CI/CD pipeline development and automation experience.
Cloud platform administration (AWS, Azure, GCP, OpenStack).
Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform.
Experience with monitoring, logging, dashboarding, and alerting platforms.
Scripting or programming experience (Python preferred).
Production applications support and operational troubleshooting.
Understanding of high-availability and low-latency application architectures.
Must be able to work on a W2 basis.

Preferred Qualifications

Red Hat OpenShift experience.
AI/ML platform exposure or AI-assisted operations tooling.
Telecom or voice application experience (SIP, SBCs, IMS, voice middleware).
Experience supporting cloud-native migrations from VM environments.
GitOps and modern deployment methodologies.
Experience with observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Splunk, or Datadog.

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