Overview

We're looking for a Kubernetes Engineer. Headquartered in Los Angeles, California, Right Balance provides top-tier technology talent for innovative companies in the US. We’re in the top 50 companies to watch in LA.

Client Engagement Details

Our client is a gaming company that offers sportsbook, daily fantasy sports, horse racing, and online casino games.

This is a hands-on role where architectural insight meets operational excellence - ideal for an engineer who wants to leave their fingerprints on the core of how things run

Key Responsibilities

• Cluster Management: Design, build, and maintain Kubernetes clusters across development, staging, and production environments (EKS a strong plus).
• Platform Engineering: Build tooling and abstractions that streamline application deployment and service discovery for developers.
• Autoscaling & Performance: Optimize pod scheduling, resource allocation, and horizontal/vertical scaling for high-performance services.
• Security & Policy Enforcement: Implement RBAC, network policies, and runtime security tools to enforce safe, compliant workloads.
• Deployment Enablement: Enhance Helm charts, Kustomize workflows, and GitOps processes to support fast, safe, and reliable deployments.
• Observability: Own the integration and tuning of observability stacks (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Loki) for visibility into cluster and application health.
• Resilience & Recovery: Support fault-tolerant architectures, runbooks for failover, and high availability strategies.
• Collaboration: Partner with developers, QA, and platform teams to evolve infrastructure-as-code and self-service systems that reduce friction and boost autonomy.

Availability: Full-time.

What’s in it for you

1. Learn and evolve your skills using the latest and greatest technology tools in a rapidly growing company.
2. Learn from the best people around you. We constantly challenge the status quo and invent new ways of building a great product.
3. 100% remote. Work anywhere, whether it is remotely in the comfort of your home, in a shared co-working space, in an RV on the beach, or while being a nomad in another country.
4. Work on challenging problems, innovate, and positively impact many people's lives while having fun doing it.

Required Qualifications

• Upper-intermediate to fluent speaking and writing English. Able to have a real-time conversation.
• 5+ years of full-time hands-on DevOps/SRE/Infrastructure experience.
• 5+ years of full-time hands-on Kubernetes experience.
• 3+ years of full-time hands-on AWS/EKS experience.
• 2+ years of full-time hands-on Helm, Kustomize, ArgoCD/Flux experience.
• Solid understanding of container lifecycle, networking, and orchestration internals.
• Proficiency with Terraform or Pulumi for provisioning EKS and supporting infrastructure.
• Competence in at least one scripting language (Python, Bash, or Go).
• Familiarity with service meshes (Istio, Linkerd) and Kubernetes-native security tools (OPA/Gatekeeper, Kyverno).

Nice to haves

• Experience implementing security controls in regulated or compliance-focused environments.
• Familiarity with service mesh architectures or advanced Kubernetes networking.
• Background supporting multi-region or multi-cloud deployments.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent demonstrated ability.

Frequently Asked Questions

What are your typical clients?

The majority of our clients are venture-backed startups at the growth stage. Usually, at this stage, the company already achieved a product-market fit and is looking to expand rapidly. That’s where we bring the best engineering practices, strong architecture, the latest technologies, and consistent processes to help companies scale.

What is the length of your engagements?

Most of our long-term full-time engagements last multiple years. It allows you to evolve your career with the client company taking on more responsibilities.

What’s your company size?

The Right Balance team is 55+ engineers going to 75+ by the end of the year. The current client size team is 1000+ people. The timing is great to be a part of a rapidly growing team making meaningful contributions.

What happens if the engagement is completed?

Most of our engagements are long-term in nature. That said, if the current engagement is ramping down, we’ll present you with more long-term opportunities to transition into.

What are your core values?

Client First: we only win when our clients win. We treat client challenges as our own.

Ownership: we embrace responsibility, taking on challenges, getting them to completion, and enjoying getting things done.

Quality: we’re passionate about achieving quality outcomes by applying meticulous attention to detail.