AWS Cloud Engineer with Kubernetes | Hybrid | W2 Profiles

Senior AWS Cloud Platform Engineer with Kubernetes

Location: Naperville, IL (M & F Remote; Tues to Thurs In office)

Key Responsibilities

Kubernetes & Container Platform Engineering

·       Deploy, manage, and troubleshoot workloads across AWS EKS and Azure AKS environments.

·       Design and maintain Kubernetes clusters throughout their lifecycle.

·       Manage Kubernetes networking, ingress controllers, service meshes, pod communication, and traffic routing.

·       Troubleshoot complex issues involving pods, nodes, networking, DNS, storage, and cluster scalability.

·       Implement high availability and disaster recovery strategies for Kubernetes platforms.

GitOps & Continuous Delivery

·       Design and manage enterprise-scale GitOps workflows using Argo CD.

·       Automate deployments and environment promotion strategies.

·       Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions.

·       Define and enforce Git branching strategies and release management practices.

·       Improve deployment reliability, rollback capabilities, and release governance.

·       AWS Cloud Engineering

Strong hands-on experience with:

·       EKS

·       EC2

·       Route 53

·       IAM

·       CloudFront/CDN

·       ALB & NLB

·       VPC & Networking

·       Security Groups & NACLs

·       Secrets Manager

·       ElastiCache (Redis)

·       S3

·       CloudWatch

·       RDS

·       Autoscaling & High Availability Architectures

Responsibilities include:

·       Designing secure and scalable cloud architectures.

·       Implementing disaster recovery and business continuity solutions.

·       Optimizing cloud cost, performance, and reliability.

·       Managing multi-account AWS environments.