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AWS EKS / Kubernetes Engineer

Techno Talent Inc.
McLean, VA, United States
7 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Shift work
Job source
www.dice.com

Tech stack

Kubernetes Security Amazon Web Services Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Amazon S3 Bash Shell Cloud Engineering Computer Networks Continuous Integration Linux DevOps Disaster Recovery Domain Name System (DNS)
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Job description

We are looking for an experienced AWS EKS / Kubernetes Engineer with deep hands-on expertise in designing, deploying, securing, and supporting enterprise Kubernetes platforms on AWS., * Design, build, and manage highly available Amazon EKS clusters.

  • Deploy and manage containerized applications using Kubernetes and Helm.
  • Configure EKS networking, ingress, service discovery, autoscaling, and load balancing.
  • Implement cluster security using IAM, IRSA, RBAC, security groups, network policies, and secrets management.
  • Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and/or CloudFormation.
  • Support CI/CD pipelines for Kubernetes deployments.
  • Configure observability, monitoring, logging, and alerting for EKS workloads.
  • Troubleshoot cluster, pod, networking, scaling, and performance issues.
  • Implement upgrades, patching, backup, disaster recovery, and cluster lifecycle management.
  • Work closely with application, DevOps, security, and cloud architecture teams.

Requirements

  • Strong hands-on experience with AWS EKS.
  • Deep knowledge of Kubernetes architecture and administration.
  • Docker and containerization.
  • Helm and Kubernetes manifests.
  • Terraform and/or AWS CloudFormation.
  • AWS services including EC2, VPC, IAM, ALB/NLB, Route 53, CloudWatch, ECR, S3, and Auto Scaling.
  • Strong understanding of Kubernetes networking, ingress controllers, DNS, and service mesh concepts.
  • Experience with RBAC, IAM Roles for Service Accounts (IRSA), secrets, and cluster security.
  • CI/CD experience using Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, CodePipeline, or similar.
  • Monitoring and logging tools such as CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch.
  • Strong Linux and troubleshooting skills.

Preferred Skills

  • Argo CD / GitOps.
  • Istio or AWS App Mesh.
  • Karpenter and Cluster Autoscaler.
  • AWS Load Balancer Controller.
  • ExternalDNS.
  • EKS Blueprints.
  • Container security tools such as Trivy or Prisma.
  • Python, Bash, or Shell scripting.
  • Multi-account / multi-region AWS environments.
  • AWS certifications.

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