AWS EKS / Kubernetes Engineer

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.