DevOps + AWS CDK - Berkeley Heights, NJ (5 days onsite/week)

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Position: DevOps + AWS CDK

Location: Berkeley Heights, NJ (5 days onsite/week).

Contract: 6+ Months Contract.

Client expecting DevOps + AWS CDK (Very strong hands-on)

CDK - (CDK knowledge expected to be higher)

• Setup of DR and switch b/w primary and DR  (Check knowledge level of AWS Replication experience)
• Different deployment schemes in a high availability setup  (Understand if the candidate is well versed with different AWS deployment strategies)
• E2E components in AWS ECS service setup (Assess AWS services setup knowledge)

Job Description

Role Summary:

Highly skilled DevOps Engineer with deep expertise in AWS CDK & Terraform  to support enterprise-scale cloud and platform engineering initiatives. The role involves designing automating and managing cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code IaC building robust CICD pipelines and supporting Kubernetes based microservices platforms in highly regulated environments.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain Infrastructure as Code IaC using Terraform including reusable modules and environment specific configurations.
• Provision and manage AWS cloud infrastructure VPCs EKS EC2 IAM RDS load balancers networking security.
• Integrate Terraform with CICD pipelines to enable automated version-controlled infrastructure deployments.
• Build and support CICD pipelines for application and platform deployments across Dev, QA, UAT and Production environments.
• Manage and support Kubernetes platforms EKS including deployments, scaling rollouts and configuration management.
• Implement deployment strategies such as Bluegreen and canary releases.
• Collaborate with development, QA, security and operations teams to ensure stable and secure releases.
• Support production releases and Level2 and Level3 production issues following enterprise incident change and release management processes.
• Ensure infrastructure complies with security compliance and audit standards.
• Create and maintain clear documentation for infrastructure designs, Terraform modules, and operational procedures.

Mandatory Skills:

Terraform IaC

• Strong Hands-on experience writing Terraform code modules, variables, state management and workspaces.
• Experience provisioning AWS infrastructure using Terraform.

Cloud Platforms

• Strong experience with AWS EKS EC2 VPC IAM S3 RDS networking security concepts
• Container Orchestration.
• Docker.
• Kubernetes EKS kubectl deployments services config maps secrets.
• CICD DevOps Tools.
• GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins or similar tools.
• Git branching and release strategies.
• Operating Systems Scripting.
• Strong Linux or Unix experience.
• Shell scripting: Bash, Python preferred.
• Enterprise DevOps Practices.
• Experience working with change, incident, and release management processes.

Good to Have Skills:

• Helm charts and Kubernetes packaging.
• GitOps tools: ArgoCD, Flux.
• Secrets management: HashiCorp Vault, cloud-native secrets.
• Monitoring and observability tools: Splunk, Dynatrace, CloudWatch, Prometheus.
• Experience in BFS Payments Financial Services domain.
• Exposure to multitenant or regulated environments.

Soft Skills Expectations

• Strong communication skills for working with onsite client stakeholders.
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced enterprise environment.
• Proactive mindset toward automation standardization and reliability.
• Comfortable supporting critical production systems.

Skills

Mandatory Skills: DevOps, AWS CDK
Good to Have Skills:  AWS CloudFormation, Ansible, DevOps, Git, Jenkins, Shell Scripting