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AWS EKS / Kubernetes Engineer

Techno Talent Inc.McLean, VA🇺🇸United States

Why this role stands out

This role offers an exceptional opportunity to deepen your expertise in AWS EKS and Kubernetes, contributing to critical cloud infrastructure for a reputable company. You'll thrive here if you possess strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes administration, containerization, and Infrastructure as Code, enabling you to build and secure robust cloud-native solutions. Apply now to advance your career in a dynamic and collaborative environment.

Quick overview

SeniorityMid Senior
Work modeOn Site
LocationMcLean, VA, United States
DockerShellAWSELKLoad BalancingService MeshBashCloudFormationDNSGitHub ActionsGitLab CIGrafanaHelmIstioJenkinsKubernetesPrismaPrometheusPythonTerraform

Job description

Location: McLean, VA
Work Arrangement: 100% Onsite – 5 days per week

We are looking for an experienced AWS EKS / Kubernetes Engineer with deep hands-on expertise in designing, deploying, securing, and supporting enterprise Kubernetes platforms on AWS.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and manage highly available Amazon EKS clusters.
  • Deploy and manage containerized applications using Kubernetes and Helm.
  • Configure EKS networking, ingress, service discovery, autoscaling, and load balancing.
  • Implement cluster security using IAM, IRSA, RBAC, security groups, network policies, and secrets management.
  • Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and/or CloudFormation.
  • Support CI/CD pipelines for Kubernetes deployments.
  • Configure observability, monitoring, logging, and alerting for EKS workloads.
  • Troubleshoot cluster, pod, networking, scaling, and performance issues.
  • Implement upgrades, patching, backup, disaster recovery, and cluster lifecycle management.
  • Work closely with application, DevOps, security, and cloud architecture teams.

Required Skills

  • Strong hands-on experience with AWS EKS.
  • Deep knowledge of Kubernetes architecture and administration.
  • Docker and containerization.
  • Helm and Kubernetes manifests.
  • Terraform and/or AWS CloudFormation.
  • AWS services including EC2, VPC, IAM, ALB/NLB, Route 53, CloudWatch, ECR, S3, and Auto Scaling.
  • Strong understanding of Kubernetes networking, ingress controllers, DNS, and service mesh concepts.
  • Experience with RBAC, IAM Roles for Service Accounts (IRSA), secrets, and cluster security.
  • CI/CD experience using Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, CodePipeline, or similar.
  • Monitoring and logging tools such as CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch.
  • Strong Linux and troubleshooting skills.

Preferred Skills

  • Argo CD / GitOps.
  • Istio or AWS App Mesh.
  • Karpenter and Cluster Autoscaler.
  • AWS Load Balancer Controller.
  • ExternalDNS.
  • EKS Blueprints.
  • Container security tools such as Trivy or Prisma.
  • Python, Bash, or Shell scripting.
  • Multi-account / multi-region AWS environments.
  • AWS certifications.

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