Department CBS Sportscom Technology Platform Engineering
Location Remote or Hybrid Louisville KY Nashville TN Fort Lauderdale FL
Contract Platform Engineer
CBS Digital is looking for a Contract Platform Engineer to help build operate and evolve the cloudnative platform that powers CBS Sports Digital and related CBS Digital products This role will focus on Kubernetes GitOps cloud infrastructure deployment automation observability and platform reliability for content sports media and consumerfacing applications
You will work closely with application engineering DevOps product and infrastructure teams to improve the developer experience standardize delivery workflows and support the migration and modernization of workloads across AWS and OCIOKE environments
What You Will Do
Operate Kubernetes Platforms Support and improve Kubernetesbased application platforms across EKS OKE and related cloud environments
Drive GitOps Delivery Build and maintain Argo CDbased deployment workflows including ApplicationSets appofapps patterns environmentspecific values and safe production sync practices
Support Helm Chart Workflows Work with shared Helm chart libraries OCI chart publishing chart versioning and perapplication configuration repositories
Improve Developer Experience Create reusable platform patterns documentation templates runbooks and tooling that make it easier for application teams to deploy and operate services
Cloud Migration Support Help modernize and migrate workloads from AWSbased infrastructure toward OCIOKE where appropriate including secrets ingress networking observability and deployment changes
Platform Reliability Improve monitoring alerting logging tracing SLOs and operational visibility for shared platform services and application workloads
Infrastructure Automation Contribute to infrastructureascode CICD automation Kubernetes manifests Helm charts and GitOps repositories
Security MultiTenancy Support RBAC namespace boundaries AppProject policies secretmanagement patterns and secure access to platform resources
Incident Operational Support Troubleshoot deployment failures Kubernetes issues Argo CD drift chart rendering problems resource health and production reliability issues
Collaborate Across Teams Partner with CMS Sports Games Media QA Engineering Shared Services Network Engineering and InfoSec stakeholders
Required Qualifications
Strong handson experience with Kubernetes in production environments
Experience operating Argo CD or similar GitOps deployment systems
Experience with Helm Kustomize Kubernetes YAML and Gitbased 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
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with Argo CD ApplicationSets AppProjects multicluster deployment and production sync strategies
Experience publishing and consuming OCI Helm charts especially from GitHub Container Registry or OCIR
Experience with External Secrets Operator AWS Secrets Manager OCI Vault or Vaultbased secret workflows
Experience with Terraform OpenTofu Crossplane or other infrastructureascode tools
Experience supporting migrations from AWS EKS to OCI OKE
Familiarity with ingress controllers load balancers WAFCDN patterns Fastly Cloudflare or similar edge infrastructure
Experience designing multitenant Kubernetes platforms with RBAC namespaces quotas and policy enforcement
Familiarity with Grafana LGTM stack OpenTelemetry or managed observability platforms
Scripting or development experience in Go Python Bash TypeScript or similar
Experience supporting hightraffic media sports CMS or consumer digital platforms
Contract Scope
This is a handson contract role focused on platform delivery migration support operational reliability and developer enablement The ideal candidate can quickly understand existing GitOps and Kubernetes patterns improve them safely and help application teams move faster without
