Cloud DevOps Engineer – AWS/Kubernetes
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Job Summary:
We are looking for an experienced *AWS EKS/Kubernetes Engineer* with strong hands-on expertise in *Kubernetes/EKS platform administration, AWS cloud infrastructure, and Terraform/Infrastructure-as-Code*. The ideal candidate will have experience *building, provisioning, managing, and troubleshooting EKS environments on AWS*, rather than simply deploying applications onto an existing Kubernetes platform.
The primary focus of this role is *EKS/Kubernetes infrastructure and platform engineering*. Candidates are not expected to have expertise across every AWS service but should have a solid understanding of the AWS services and infrastructure components required to operate EKS effectively.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, build, provision, and manage *Amazon EKS/Kubernetes clusters* on AWS.
- Perform *Kubernetes/EKS cluster administration, configuration, maintenance, and troubleshooting*.
- Provision and manage AWS infrastructure using *Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC)*.
- Develop and maintain reusable Terraform modules for EKS and supporting AWS infrastructure.
- Manage EKS components including *node groups, networking, IAM, security groups, load balancers, storage, and cluster add-ons*.
- Troubleshoot Kubernetes cluster, node, networking, resource, and workload-related issues.
- Monitor EKS cluster health, capacity, performance, and availability.
- Support Kubernetes upgrades, node upgrades, configuration changes, and platform maintenance.
- Work with AWS networking and infrastructure components such as *VPC, subnets, IAM, security groups, load balancing, and Route 53* as required for EKS.
- Implement and maintain secure and highly available Kubernetes infrastructure.
- Collaborate with DevOps, Cloud, Infrastructure, and Application teams to support Kubernetes workloads.
- Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and operational processes.
- Participate in incident resolution and root-cause analysis for EKS/Kubernetes platform issues.
Required Skills:
- *Strong hands-on Kubernetes experience*
- *Strong Amazon EKS experience*
- Experience with *EKS cluster/platform administration*
- Hands-on experience *building and provisioning EKS environments*
- Strong *Terraform / Infrastructure-as-Code* experience
- Experience managing *AWS cloud infrastructure*
- Strong Kubernetes troubleshooting skills
- Understanding of *AWS networking, IAM, VPC, security groups, and load balancing*
- Experience with Kubernetes components such as:
- Pods, Deployments, Services
- ConfigMaps and Secrets
- Ingress
- RBAC
- Namespaces
- Nodes/Node Groups
- Kubernetes networking
- Experience with *Linux administration and troubleshooting*
- Understanding of cloud security, availability, and infrastructure best practices
Preferred Skills:
- AWS CLI
- Helm
- Git
- CI/CD automation
- Kubernetes monitoring and logging
- EKS add-ons
- AWS Load Balancer Controller
- Cluster Autoscaler / Karpenter
- Prometheus/Grafana
- Bash or Python scripting
Experience
*5+ years* of experience in Cloud/DevOps/Infrastructure engineering, with significant hands-on experience in *Kubernetes/EKS and Terraform*.
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Phoenix, AZ 85074