Kubernetes & Cloud CI​/CD Engineer

What are the top 3 skills required for this role?
1. k8s admin
2. AWS fundamentals
3. Splunk / datadog

Job Description / Responsibilities:

• 4+ years managing Kubernetes clusters in production (EKS preferred)

• Hands-on experience with Git Ops tooling — Flux CD and/or Argo CD

• Proficiency writing Terraform modules and Helm charts

• Experience building CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Git Hub Actions, or equivalent)

• Strong AWS fundamentals — VPC, IAM, EC2, MSK, EKS node groups

• Working knowledge of observability platforms (Datadog, Dynatrace, or similar)

• Comfort operating in Agile/sprint-based engineering teams

Nice to Have:

• Experience with Linkerd or other service mesh technologies

• Familiarity with Jsonnet or CUE for configuration management

• Hands-on Fin Ops or cluster cost optimisation experience (Kubecost, Scale Ops)

• Experience migrating ingress controllers at scale

• Amazon MSK administration and Kafka operations knowledge

• Okta or SSO/IdP integration experience

• Blue-green or canary deployment patterns for Kubernetes upgrades

• Familiarity with application architecture (Java and or Python)