AWS DEVOPS ENGINEERS

Role Summary

Senior DevOps Engineer to own our AWS and EKS platform, including infrastructure provisioning with Terraform, cluster provisioning, upgrades, scaling, CICD, GitOps-based deployments, disaster recovery, observability and event-streaming systems.

Key Responsibilities

Provision, configure and manage AWS Infrastructure and EKS platform using Terraform.

Configure and manage Amazon EKS clusters, and perform EKS version and add-on upgrades with minimal downtime

Design and manage AWS infrastructure: VPC, Route53, IAM, EC2, ALB/NLB

Own Kubernetes architecture and troubleshoot production issues (networking, scheduling, pods, resources)

Configure and manage Ingress controllers and Istio service mesh (traffic routing, mTLS)

Implement autoscaling using Karpenter, Cluster Autoscaler, HPA and KEDA

Set up Disaster Recovery environments and implement Blue-Green / Canary deployments

Manage GitOps delivery using ArgoCD and Blue Green Deployments using Argo Rollouts.

Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Harness, GitHub Actions, and/or Jenkins

Integrate observability (monitoring, logging, alerting) using Dynatrace, Datadog or Prometheus/Grafana

Manage event streaming and messaging systems: Kafka, AWS MSK clusters, SQS

Lead incident troubleshooting, root-cause analysis and mentor junior engineers

Required Skills

Strong hands-on experience with Amazon EKS, including production upgrades

Strong hands-on experience on Terraform.

Strong AWS experience: VPC, Route53, IAM, EC2, ALB

Strong Kubernetes experience: architecture, troubleshooting, Ingress, Istio

Karpenter, Cluster Autoscaler, HPA, KEDA

DR setup and Blue-Green deployments

ArgoCD, Argo Rollouts, GitOps

CI/CD with GitHub Actions / Harness / Jenkins

Observability tools: Dynatrace / Datadog / Prometheus

Kafka / MSK / SQS

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred), Helm, scripting in Bash/Python

Nice to Have

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional, CKA / CKAD, Terraform Associate.

Experience with multi-account AWS setups and cost optimization

Relevant job titles to search: Senior DevOps Engineer, Platform Engineer, AWS Cloud Engineer, Kubernetes Engineer.

Please prioritize profiles showing hands-on EKS, AWS services and Kafka/MSK work in production.