Senior OpenShift & AWS EKS Platform Engineer - Remote / Telecommute

Job Title: Senior OpenShift & AWS EKS Platform Engineer - Remote / Telecommute

Job Location: Toronto, ON

Job Type: Contract

Pay Range: $46.00hr - $51.00hr

Job Overview:

Our client is seeking a hands-on platform engineer with deep Red Hat OpenShift administration experience and practical expertise building and operating AWS EKS environments. The ideal candidate enjoys solving complex infrastructure challenges, possesses a strong automation-first mindset, works independently while collaborating across engineering teams, and comfortably leads troubleshooting efforts in critical production environments.

Key Responsibilities:

• Administer and support large-scale Red Hat OpenShift environments.
• Perform cluster upgrades, patching, lifecycle management, and platform maintenance.
• Troubleshoot cluster, node, networking, storage, and application deployment issues.
• Manage OpenShift Operators, MachineConfig, RBAC, SCCs, monitoring, and logging solutions.
• Support onboarding of application teams onto the platform.
• Participate in production incident response, root cause analysis, and operational improvements.
• Design, deploy, and manage Amazon EKS clusters in AWS.
• Implement and maintain EKS networking, IAM integration, security controls, and observability solutions.
• Define and implement platform operating models, governance controls, and platform best practices.
• Support deployment patterns using Helm, Kubernetes manifests, and Infrastructure as Code.
• Collaborate with Cloud Engineering and Architecture teams on EKS platform evolution.
• Develop Infrastructure-as-Code solutions using Terraform and cloud-native automation tooling.
• Implement and enhance CI/CD pipelines for containerized workloads.
• Support GitOps-based deployment approaches using Argo CD or similar technologies.
• Automate operational tasks, health checks, validation, compliance reporting, and platform deployments.
• Contribute to platform engineering standards, documentation, and reusable deployment patterns.

Security & Compliance:

• Implement Kubernetes and OpenShift security best practices.
• Support vulnerability remediation and platform hardening initiatives.
• Integrate container security scanning, secrets management, audit logging, and compliance controls.
• Ensure platform services meet enterprise security and regulatory requirements.

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• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• 401(k) Retirement Plan
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Disability Insurance (Short-Term and Long-Term)
• Life and AD&D Insurance
• Paid Sick Leave (where required by applicable state or local law)
• Supplemental Insurance Plans
• Identity Theft Protection
• Pet Insurance
• Employee Wellness Programs
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Career Growth and Professional Development Opportunities