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# Lead DevOps Engineer with AWS EKS Kubernetes

- **Company:** Hire IT People
- **Location:** Newark, NY, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Bash Shell, DevOps, Groovy, Python (Programming Language), Site Reliability Engineering Practices, Prometheus, Datadog, Policy as Code, Data Logging, Scripting, Istio, Grafana, Git, Cloudformation, Containerization, Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Linkerd (Service Mesh), CIS Benchmarks, Terraform, Software Version Control, Jenkins
- **Published:** July 24, 2026
- **Apply:** https://ats.hireitpeople.com/candidate/apply/41429-lead-devops-engineer-with-aws-eks-kubernetes

## About the Role

* 10+ years of experience in a DevOps, Platform Engineering, or SRE role.
 * Proven expertise with Jenkins for building robust and secure CI/CD pipelines.
 * Strong hands-on experience with AWS EKS Kubernetes.
 * Deep understanding of Helm for managing Kubernetes deployments.
 * Proficient with scripting languages (e.g., Bash, Python, Groovy) and version control (e.g., Git).
 * Familiarity with infrastructure as code tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation).
 * Solid understanding of monitoring, logging, and alerting practices (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog).
 * Experience working in Agile environments with cross-functional teams.

Nice to Have:

 * Exposure to cloud-native technologies like ArgoCD, Flux, or Kustomize.
 * Experience with service mesh technologies (e.g., Istio, Linkerd).
 * Background in SRE practices including SLIs/SLOs and error budgets.
 * Familiarity with security and compliance automation (e.g., CIS benchmarks, policy-as-code).

## Description

* Develop, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins to enable fast, secure, and repeatable deployments.
 * Manage container orchestration and deployment via Kubernetes (EKS) and Helm.
 * Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and monitoring to support application reliability and performance.
 * Collaborate with SREs to build platform tooling that supports observability, diagnostics, and resiliency.
 * Troubleshoot deployment issues and lead root cause analysis for platform-related incidents.
 * Support and enhance deployment strategies including canary releases, blue/green deployments, and rollback mechanisms.
 * Ensure systems are compliant with security and audit standards using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) best practices.


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