Kubernetes Support Engineer (DevOps) - Aquinas Consulting

Aquinas Consulting is currently look to fill a contract Kubernetes Support Engineer job in Berkeley Heights, NJ for a Professional IT Services Firm. Our client specializes in proprietary machine learning, predictive analytics solutions and the use of automation to achieve business transformation for some of the largest companies in the world.

Kubernetes Support Engineer 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.

Kubernetes Support Engineer Job qualifications:

• 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
• 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 Podman
• 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

If you are interested in this contract Kubernetes Support Engineer job in Berkeley Heights, NJ please apply now to be connected with a member of our team.

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Aquinas Consulting is a woman and minority owned company headquartered in Milford, CT that provides Engineering, Information Technology (IT), and Manufacturing staffing solutions throughout the US. We take pride in 20 years of service to our clients, our hiring managers, our consultants, and our local community.  Aquinas is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer and committed to considering all qualified applications without regard to race, genetic information, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability or any other characteristic protected by law. www.aquinasconsulting.com