DevOps Engineer (AWS + Kubernetes + Rafay or Rancher)

Role: DevOps Engineer (AWS + Kubernetes + Rafay or Rancher)
Duration: Long Term
Location: McLean, VA (5 Days Onsite)
Experience: 10+ Years

Required: Hands-on experience with Rafay for Kubernetes platform or multi-cluster operations.

Required Qualifications
4+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, Cloud Engineering, or a related discipline.
Hands-on experience with Rafay for Kubernetes platform or multi-cluster operations.
Candidates with strong production experience in Rancher, OpenShift, Tanzu, or comparable Kubernetes management platforms may be considered where Rafay experience is limited.
Strong AWS experience, including practical knowledge of:
Amazon EKS
EC2
IAM
VPC, subnets, routing, security groups, and load balancers
S3
CloudWatch
Route 53
Secrets and encryption services
Strong Kubernetes expertise, including:
Cluster and workload operations
Helm and manifest-based deployments
RBAC and service accounts
Namespaces, resource quotas, and network policies
Ingress, services, DNS, and container networking
Troubleshooting pods, deployments, nodes, and cluster-level issues
Experience developing and maintaining Jenkins-based CI/CD pipelines.
Proficiency in Python for scripting, API integrations, automation, and operational tooling.
Hands-on experience with Istio or a comparable service-mesh technology.
Experience with Docker, Git, container registries, and Linux administration.
Strong understanding of cloud and Kubernetes security practices, including secrets management, IAM, least-privilege access, vulnerability remediation, and policy enforcement.