EKS Infrastructure Engineer

Hi,   

This is Srikanth from Techno-Comp Inc.  

We have a job opening with our direct client for position EKS Infrastructure Engineer/Architect @ Silver Spring, MD.  If you would be interested in applying for the below position. Please find the job details below:

Job Details:

Job Title: EKS Infrastructure Engineer

Duration: Long Term

Location: Silver Spring, MD

Interview: Telephonic & F2F/Skype

Description:

• You will be working to help design and build EKS clusters for Clients IT applications to migrate to or build in brownfield and greenfield deployments.
• You will combine the existing cloud design, policies, and practices in place today at Client for other clouds and apply to the EKS technology stack.
• Enhance and contribute to existing and new EKS architectures
• Develop tooling and self-service capabilities
• Integrate automation workflows into CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Ansible, Terraform, Gitlab and OneArtifactory) using GitOps Model
• Collaborate with developers and partner infrastructure teams to enhance the developer experience

Must Have Skills:

• EKS Architecture, Deployment experience as Platform Engineer
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and using test driven frameworks
• Experience with hardening EKS Security for Cluster and Applications
• Experience with EKS Platform automation to manage Cluster lifecycle (CRUD)
• Experience working with Helm / Customize for Application lifecycle management and add-ons for K8s
• Working knowledge of how underlying components that make up K8s (like CNI, kubelet, kube-proxy, CoreDNS) work
• Strong communication and written skills
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with GitOps Model (using tools like Flux, Flagger)
• Experience with AWS Identity Management (IAM Permission Boundaries, IRSA)
• Experience with PKI and Certificate Management using cert-manager in K8s ecosystem
• Experience with OPA/Gatekeeper/Kyverno Policy Management
• Experience with troubleshooting using AWS services like CloudTrail, CloudWatch

Desired Skills:

• Experience designing and implementing EKS architecture through automation for Single and multi-tenant clusters
• Strong development / programming skills (Python, Terraform, Ansible, Golang)
• Experience working in Agile Teams
• Experience with orchestrating AWS EC2 Instance deployments in an enterprise setting
• Experience working on Reference architecture documentation
• Experience managing lifecycle of Istio Service Mesh (Community Edition) or equivalent service mesh technology
• Knowledge of multi-mesh technology is a plus

Regards

Srikanth M

Techno-Comp Inc.,

Phone: Ext - 107

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