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Cloud Engineer- Princeton, NJ- 2 days in office () Full time

Via DicePrinceton, NJApril 30th, 2026
Dice is the leading career destination for tech experts at every stage of their careers. Our client, EA Team, Inc., is seeking the following. Apply via Dice today!Role: Sr. Cloud EngineerLocation: Princeton,NJ- 2 days in office GC OnlyPrefer someone who started as a developer and moved into Dev Ops.Senior DevOps Engineer role on our Business Systems Development team. This is a hands-on-keyboard, technical role. In this role, you will own the administration of Kubernetes clusters, onboarding of various applications, setting up observability and other tools in a hybrid environment spanning on-prem and cloud.Key Responsibilities IncludePrimary responsibility for end-to-end k8s application onboardingSet up Jenkins pipelines for building container images and work with various image registriesImplement authentication and authorization workflows using Keycloak and AWS IAM across EKS and on-prem Kubernetes clustersImplement solutions for monitoring and supporting tools for container storage and container networkingConduct production-readiness reviews and checklists for onboarding and supporting applications in k8sAutomate procedures such as disaster-recovery, stress tests and custom environment turn ups using PythonTroubleshoot incidents, identify root causes, resolve and document problems, and implement preventive measuresParticipate in applying SRE principles such as availability SLIs, error budgets, incident reviews, alerting and be part of an on-call ROTAOrganizational StructureThe Senior DevOps Engineer will report directly to the Director of DevOps in the Business Systems Development Department.Qualifications3 or more years of experience in building Linux containers and container orchestration3 or more years of experience with Kubernetes app manifests - Kustomize, Helm ChartsExperience with Kubernetes networking - container networking, Ingress such as nginx and service meshStrong familiarity with Transport Layer Security, Certificates, etc.Experience in GitOps for Kubernetes – Flux and ArgoCDKnowledge of web services, APIs, REST and RPC calls, HTTPS APIs and Service DiscoveryStrong Linux background and containerization principlesExperience with Shell Scripts and working knowledge of PythonObservability tools including - Prometheus, Alert Manager, Splunk and GrafanaKnowledge of Go is desirableProficiency in managing unified identity lifecycles, with hands-on expertise in Keycloak and AWS IAM policies is desirableExperience with Kafka and managing Kafka clusters is desirableExperience with Jenkins or other CI/CD frameworks is desirableJava, Groovy or NodeJS/React programming is desirableWorking knowledge of AWS EKS, Load Balancers, EC2 Instances, S3 Storage, VPCs, RDS, DynamoDB, Network Firewalls, ECS is desirableWorking knowledge of AWS CloudWatch Logs and Alarms and building observability is desirableEducation and ExperienceMinimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field (or equivalent experience)3+ years of experience using cloud technologies to support large-scale business applicationsExperience in financial services or other regulated industriesExperience working with AWS CDK or IaC frameworks in Python or NodeJS