AWS/ Kubernetes Engineer at Confidential company
About the Job
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I am looking for a candidate with experience as AWS/ Kubernetes Engineer.
Job Title: AWS/ Kubernetes Engineer
Job Location: Berkeley Heights, NJ (100% Onsite)
# Positions: 2
Employment Type: C2H
Duration: Long Term
Work Eligibility: All Work Authorizations are permitted - No OPTs, No H-1s
Key Technology: Container Platforms, IAAS, Networks, Kubernetes, ARO
Must be on our W2.
Job Responsibilities:
- Provide hands-on support for existing environments to include performance of the following related tasks: software installation, patch installation, upgrades, query writing, configuration, security, system monitoring and tuning, disaster recovery planning, and release deployments.
- Responsible for managing and upgrading Amazon EKS clusters.
Implement tools and automation for build, configuration management, continuous integration (CI), deployment, and application monitoring. - Automate and evolve infrastructure, deployment strategies and testing to support a quick turnaround of deployments.
- Maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) responsible for provisioning, configuring, and scaling infrastructure in cloud environments.
- Work closely with Engineering to ensure all relevant KPI’s are implemented within the monitoring framework.
- Participate in all Production Support activities during incidents and outages. Hands-on technical resource capable of resolving all technical issues within lower and upper environments and making recommendations for performance and capacity improvements.
- Participate in capacity planning, tuning systems stability, provisioning, performance, and scaling of the application infrastructure.
- The desire to resolve issues for a 24x7 environment in a non-impacting yet fast-paced resolve time.
Skills and Experience Required:
Required:
- 5 years of experience with tech stack in AWS:
- Elastic Kubernetes / ElastiCache / KMS.
- Networking: VPC / Subnets / Route Tables / Security Groups / Flow Logs.
- Compute: EC2 / AutoScaling / Load Balancers.
- Database: SQL / RDS / Dynamo / PostgreSQL.
- Other: IAM / S3 / CloudWatch / CloudFront / Pulsar / Elasticsearch.
- Working experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or AWS CloudFormation.
- Need to have experience in Linux OS as primary OS.
- Experience working with third-party vendors.
- Able to work effectively, both independently and as a member of a cross-functional team.
- Demonstrate a desire to automate as much as possible.
- Able to participate in on-call rotation.
Desired:
- Containerization technologies: Docker or Postman.
- Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery tools: AWS CodePipeline, Azure DevOps.
- Linux system administration – ability to manage and troubleshoot Linux systems and services, bash scripting.
- Networking: solid understanding of routing and networking concepts.
- Experience working in an Agile development environment.
- Web Servers: Nginx or Apache configurations and reverse proxies.
- Collaboration platforms such as JIRA, Confluence, Wiki, ServiceNow.
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree required; relevant, equivalent work experience may be substituted for degree requirement.