AWS​/Kubernetes Engineer

Job Title: AWS / Kubernetes Engineer

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Job Location:

Berkeley Heights NJ

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# Positions: 2

Employment Type:

W2

Duration:

Long Term

# of Layers:0

Work Eligibility:

All Work Authorizations are Permitted – No Visa Transfers

Key Technology:

Container Platforms, IAAS, Networks, Kubernetes, ARO

• Provide hands‑on support for existing environments to include performance of the following related tasks: software installation, patch installation, upgrades, query writing, configuration, security, system monitoring and tuning, disaster recovery planning, and release deployments.
• Responsible for managing and upgrading Amazon EKS clusters
  Implement tools and automation for build, configuration management, continuous integration (CI), deployment, and application monitoring.
• Automate and evolve infrastructure, deployment strategies and testing to support a quick turnaround of deployments.
• Maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) responsible for provisioning, configuring, and scaling infrastructure in cloud environments
• Work closely with Engineering to ensure all relevant KPI’s are implemented within the monitoring framework.
• Participate in all Production Support activities during incidents and outages. Hands‑on technical resource capable of resolving all technical issues within lower and upper environments and making recommendations for performance and capacity improvements.
• Participate in capacity planning, tuning systems stability, provisioning, performance, and scaling of the application infrastructure.
• The desire to resolve issues for a 24×7 environment in a non-impacting yet fast‑paced resolve time.

• 5 years of experience with tech stack in AWS:
• Elastic Kubernetes / Elasti Cache / KMS
• Networking: VPC / Subnets / Route Tables / Security Groups / Flow Logs
• Compute: EC2 / Auto Scaling / Load Balancers
• Database: SQL / RDS / Dynamo / PostgreSQL
• Other: IAM / S3 / Cloud Watch / Cloud Front / Pulsar / Elasticsearch
• Working experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or AWS Cloud Formation
• Experience working with third‑party vendors
• Able to work effectively, both independently and as a member of a cross‑functional team
• Demonstrate a desire to automate as much as possible
• Able to participate in on‑call rotation

• Containerization technologies:
  Docker or Podman
• Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery tools: AWS Code Pipeline, Azure Dev Ops
• Linux system administration – ability to manage and troubleshoot Linux systems and services, bash scripting
• Networking: solid understanding of routing and networking concepts
• Experience working in an Agile development environment
• Web Servers:
  Nginx or Apache configurations and reverse proxies
• Collaboration platforms such as JIRA, Confluence, Wiki, Service Now

• Bachelor’s degree required; relevant, equivalent work experience may be substituted for degree requirement