Overseas Contractor
Hybrid · Nashville, Tennessee, United States or Louisville, Kentucky, United States
Job Summary
Contract Platform Engineer to help build, operate, and evolve CBS Sports Digital's cloud-native platform powering CBS Digital products. Focus areas include Kubernetes, GitOps (Argo CD), cloud infrastructure deployment automation, observability, and platform reliability across AWS and OCI/OKE environments. Collaborate with application engineering, DevOps, product, and infrastructure teams to standardize delivery workflows, migrate and modernize workloads, and improve developer experience. Responsibilities include operating Kubernetes platforms across EKS/OKE, driving GitOps delivery with Argo CD, supporting Helm workflows, enabling reusable platform patterns and runbooks, migrating workloads from AWS toward OCI/OKE, improving monitoring and SLOs, contributing to infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD automation, enforcing security and multi-tenancy concepts, troubleshooting deployment issues, and collaborating with CMS, Sports Games, Media, QA Engineering, Shared Services, Network Engineering, and InfoSec teams.
Required Qualifications
- Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production environments
- Experience operating Argo CD or similar GitOps deployment systems
- Experience with Helm Kustomize Kubernetes YAML and Git-based deployment workflows
- Cloud experience with AWS OCI or similar cloud providers
- Familiarity with containerized application delivery using Docker and Kubernetes
- Experience with CICD systems such as GitHub Actions Jenkins CircleCI or similar
- Strong troubleshooting skills across Kubernetes workloads networking ingress DNS secrets and deployment pipelines
- Working knowledge of observability tools such as Prometheus Grafana Loki Tempo Datadog CloudWatch or OCInative monitoring
- Experience with Git workflows pull requests code review and environment promotion
- Ability to write clear documentation operational runbooks and platform guidance for application engineers
- Strong communication skills and comfort working with distributed engineering teams
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