About this role
Contract Platform Engineer CBS Sports Digital
CBS Digital Department CBS Sportscom Technology Platform Engineering Location Remote or Hybrid Louisville KY Nashville TN Fort Lauderdale FL Contract Platform EngineerCBS 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 applicationsYou 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 knowle