AWS or Google Cloud Platform Administrator, an architect, or an Admin.|| Onsite - Hybrid at Mclean VA / Santa Monica, CA || Must have Linkedin and 14+ years of exp.||

AWS or Google Cloud Platform Administrator, an architect, or an Admin.

Onsite - Hybrid at Mclean VA / Santa Monica CA

Must have Linkedin and 14+ years of exp.

Key Responsibilities:

Design, build, and operate highly available, fault-tolerant systems supporting core banking, payments, and trading platforms.

Lead SRE practices including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and reliability-driven engineering decisions.

Provide L3/L4 incident response, root cause analysis (RCA), and post-incident remediation for production systems.

Support and optimize Java-based microservices running on Kubernetes (EKS).

Implement and manage AWS-native services (EC2, EKS, RDS, DynamoDB, S3, IAM, CloudWatch).

Develop automation using Terraform for infrastructure provisioning and policy enforcement.

Manage Kubernetes networking, storage, and service mesh integrations including Istio / Anthos Service Mesh.

Implement advanced Kubernetes storage solutions using Portworx.

Architect and maintain enterprise-grade CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, and cloud-native tooling.

Automate manual operational tasks using Python, Go, Bash, and infrastructure-as-code patterns.

Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting using Prometheus, Datadog, Splunk, Kiali, and custom dashboards.

Utilize eBPF for deep kernel-level observability and performance tuning.

Support real-time data platforms using Kafka, KSQLDB, Kafka Streams, Spark Streaming.

Manage multi-cluster Kubernetes environments, including cluster federation.

Optimize system performance, scalability, and latency under high transaction volumes.

Enforce banking-grade security controls, IAM policies, secrets management, and least-privilege access.

Support environments aligned with SOC2, PCI-DSS, SOX, and internal banking security standards.

Provide 247 operational support, including rotational shifts, weekends, and on-call coverage across all U.S. time zones.

Required Technical

Expertise:

Java (JVM internals, tuning, microservices)

AWS Cloud (EKS, EC2, IAM, VPC, RDS, CloudWatch)

Kubernetes (CKA/CKS-level depth)

Docker, Terraform

CI/CD: GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins

Streaming: Kafka, KSQLDB, Spark Streaming

Service Mesh: Istio, Anthos Service Mesh

Monitoring: Prometheus, Datadog, Splunk, Kiali

OS & Scripting: Linux/Unix, Bash

Programming: Python or Go

Virtualization: VMware

Networking & Performance: Nginx Controller, Seesaw, eBPF

Experience supporting core banking, payment gateways, or trading platforms

Exposure to high-frequency transaction systems

Knowledge of regulatory audits and compliance controls

Experience with zero-downtime deployments and disaster recovery strategies

They are looking for an AWS or Google Cloud Platform Administrator, an architect, or an Admin. Not a dev apps developer. We have a good shot to close this. Please hurry.

This is to deploy VMs and EC2 instances, etc. with below Certificates

AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional or AWS DevOps Engineer Professional

Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS)

Thanks,

KK