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# Senior System Software Engineer

- **Company:** TUNDRA TECHNICAL
- **Location:** Jacksonville, FL, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, DevOps, Identity and Access Management, Octopus Deploy, OpenShift, Prometheus, System Software, Enterprise Software Applications, System Availability, Grafana, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Cloudformation, Kubernetes, Cloudwatch, Terraform, AWS EKS, Jenkins
- **Published:** July 31, 2026
- **Apply:** https://arc.dev/remote-jobs/j/redirect/p8u3ps1i1m

## About the Role

* 5+ years of experience with Kubernetes or container orchestration platforms
 * Hands-on experience managing Amazon EKS in production
 * Strong experience with Amazon ECR
 * Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and Argo CD
 * Proven experience migrating applications from OpenShift or other on-prem container platforms to AWS
 * Strong operational experience with monitoring, troubleshooting, and incident response
 * Solid AWS knowledge including VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, and networking
 * Experience working with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar)

Preferred Qualifications

 * OpenShift administration experience
 * Helm, Prometheus, Grafana, or Kustomize
 * AWS Certifications (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, CKA)
 * Experience developing migration automation and repeatable deployment processes, If you're an experienced Kubernetes engineer with a strong AWS background and have successfully migrated workloads from on-prem environments to EKS, we'd love to hear from you.

## Description

We're hiring an AWS EKS Engineer for a leading company in the healthcare and insurance industry. This is a 6-month W-2 contract supporting a large-scale cloud modernization initiative. The role is primarily remote with periodic travel to Jacksonville, FL, making it an excellent opportunity for candidates located throughout the Southeastern U.S.

You'll play a key role in migrating enterprise applications from on-prem OpenShift to AWS EKS, helping establish a scalable Kubernetes platform that will support multiple future cloud migration projects.

What You'll Do

 * Lead and support migrations from OpenShift to AWS EKS
 * Deploy, manage, and troubleshoot production Amazon EKS clusters
 * Manage container images and repositories using Amazon ECR
 * Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and Argo CD
 * Partner with development teams to migrate and optimize containerized applications
 * Monitor, secure, and optimize Kubernetes environments
 * Create migration documentation, automation, and operational runbooks
 * Support ongoing platform reliability, scalability, and performance


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