Senior Technical Specialist

Maximum Salary (US): 192000

Minimum Salary (US): 95000

Job Summary The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience building, operating, and scaling cloud-native platforms, supporting Kubernetes-based workloads, and improving automation, observability, deployment reliability, and system performance.

This role requires a strong technical foundation, practical experience with modern infrastructure tooling, and the ability to communicate effectively with engineering, security, and operations teams.
** Key Responsibilities**- Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and highly available infrastructure on AWS.

- Manage and operate Kubernetes workloads using Amazon EKS.

- Develop, maintain, and improve infrastructure as code using Terraform.

- Support and optimize cloud-native services including AWS MSK, networking, compute, storage, IAM, and monitoring services.

- Build automation using Python, Unix shell scripts, and other scripting or programming languages.

- Improve reliability, availability, performance, and operational efficiency across production systems.

- Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines for application and infrastructure deployments.

- Monitor system health, troubleshoot incidents, and participate in root cause analysis.

- Collaborate with development teams to improve deployment practices and production readiness.

- Create and maintain technical documentation, runbooks, and operational procedures.

- Support security, compliance, backup, disaster recovery, and cost optimization initiatives.
** Required Skills and Experience**- Excellent knowledge of Amazon EKS, Kubernetes architecture, deployments, services, ingress, autoscaling, and cluster operations.

- Excellent knowledge of AWS services and cloud infrastructure best practices.

- Hands-on experience with Amazon MSK or Kafka-based streaming platforms.

- Expert-level experience with Terraform, including modules, state management, work spaces, and reusable infrastructure patterns.

- Good working knowledge of Python, Unix shell scripting, and at least one additional programming or scripting language.

- Strong understanding of Linux/Unix systems, networking, DNS, load balancing, and security fundamentals.

- Experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting tools such as Cloud Watch, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/Open Search, or similar.

- Experience supporting production systems in high-availability environments.

- Strong troubleshooting, problem-solving, and incident response skills.

- Good verbal and written communication skills.
** Preferred Qualifications**
- Experience with CI/CD tools such as Git Hub Actions, Git Lab CI, Jenkins, Argo CD, or similar.

- Experience with Helm, Kustomize, or other Kubernetes deployment tools.

- Familiarity with AWS IAM, VPC, Route 53, ALB/NLB, Lambda, RDS, S3, and Cloud Formation.

- Experience with container security, secrets management, and vulnerability scanning.

- AWS, Kubernetes, or Terraform certifications are a plus.
** Soft Skills**- Strong communication and collaboration skills.

- Ability to work independently and as part of a cross-functional team.

- Detail-oriented with a strong ownership mindset.

- Comfortable supporting critical production systems.

- Able to explain technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience building, operating, and scaling cloud-native platforms, supporting Kubernetes-based workloads, and improving automation, observability, deployment reliability, and system performance.

This role requires a strong technical foundation, practical experience with modern infrastructure tooling, and the ability to communicate effectively with engineering, security, and operations teams.
** Key Responsibilities**- Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and highly available infrastructure on AWS.

- Manage and operate Kubernetes workloads using Amazon EKS.

- Develop, maintain, and improve infrastructure as code using Terraform.

- Support and optimize cloud-native services including AWS MSK, networking, compute, storage, IAM, and monitoring services.

- Build automation using Python, Unix shell scripts, and other scripting or programming languages.

- Improve reliability, availability, performance, and operational efficiency across production systems.

- Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines for application and infrastructure deployments.

- Monitor system health, troubleshoot incidents, and participate in root cause analysis.

- Collaborate with…