AWS EKS SME - W2 - eTek IT Services, Inc.

Overview:

The AWS EKS Subject Matter Expert (SME) plays a crucial role in designing, implementing, and maintaining the AWS EKS environment within the organization. This position is essential for ensuring the reliability, scalability, and security of the AWS EKS infrastructure, and for providing guidance on best practices for EKS deployment and management.

Key Responsibilities:

Designing and implementing AWS EKS clusters and managing Kubernetes resources

Developing and maintaining automation tools for EKS infrastructure

Providing technical expertise in EKS networking, security, and performance optimization

Collaborating with development teams to optimize application deployment on EKS

Creating and maintaining EKS monitoring and alerting solutions

Leading EKS capacity planning and resource optimization efforts

Participating in incident response and troubleshooting for EKS-related issues

Ensuring compliance with security and governance policies for EKS environment

Assisting in the evaluation and adoption of new EKS-related technologies and features

Knowledge sharing and training for EKS best practices and use cases

Participating in on-call rotation for EKS support

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field

Professional AWS certification such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer

Minimum of 5 years of experience in designing, implementing, and managing AWS EKS environment

In-depth understanding of Kubernetes and hands-on experience with EKS

Proficiency in infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation

Expertise in AWS networking, security, and IAM

Strong scripting and automation skills using Python, Bash, or similar

Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps best practices

Proven track record in troubleshooting and performance tuning of EKS environment

Excellent communication and collaboration skills in a cross-functional team environment

Ability to work independently and lead EKS-related initiatives

Understanding of cloud cost management and optimization

Experience with other AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, and CloudWatch

Familiarity with containerization and microservices architecture

Knowledge of Agile methodologies and tools

Required Skills

I am looking for an AWS EKS Subject Matter Expert Need someone who has been focused in the EKS space (Amazon Elastic Kubernetes) - Need to be an EKS Guru 10/10 communication skills

Additional Skills

Job Description

AWS EKS with knowledge in the following areas:

Strategy for setting up clusters for a large organization&

Cluster set up and maintenance using automation

Scalability and reliability

Governance in a shared environment

Needs to understand the gaps in the capabilities

Need to be able to build from the ground up

Helping set up the company wide capability

Help make it scalable