AWS Engineers - Kubernetes

Engagement: Remote, but work EST Duration: 6 to 12 month contract Our customer seeks an AWS Cloud/Kubernetes Engineer who will be working with the engineering team and focusing on AWS infrastructure and automation. A key part of the role is championing and leading infrastructure as code, build, manage and automate AWS infrastructure for the required solution. Duties & Responsibilities:

• Design cloud infrastructure that is secure, scalable, and highly available on AWS
• Work collaboratively with software engineering to define infrastructure and deployment requirements
• Provision, configure and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure defined as code
• Implement containerization and orchestration using Kubernetes, Terraforms, and Amazon EKS. Ensure all components must be 100% free of Critical and High vulnerabilities.
• Ensure configuration and compliance with configuration management tools
• Troubleshoot problems across a wide array of services and functional areas
• Build and maintain operational tools for deployment, monitoring, and analysis of AWS infrastructure and systems

Qualifications:

• At least 5+ years of experience building and maintaining AWS infrastructure (Terraforms, EC2, Security Groups, IAM, ECS, S3, EKS)
• Strong understanding of how to secure AWS environments and meet compliance requirements
• Hands-on experience deploying and managing infrastructure with Terraform
• Experience with Kubernetes, GitHub, Jenkins, ELK, EKS and deploying applications on AWS
• Prior experience in Security hardening
• Strong bias for action and ownership