Kubernetes Engineer (EKS/AKS)

About the Role:

• Seeking a Cloud Platform Engineer to support the next generation of containerized streaming platforms.

• This role focuses on designing, building, deploying, and maintaining Kubernetes environments across AWS (EKS) and Azure (AKS).

• The ideal candidate has a software engineering background and has transitioned into cloud platform engineering, bringing strong coding skills along with hands-on Kubernetes expertise.

• You'll work in a DevOps-driven environment leveraging CI/CD, automation, and GitOps to build scalable cloud-native platforms.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, deploy, and maintain Kubernetes clusters across AWS EKS and Azure AKS.

• Develop and support cloud-native platform solutions for enterprise applications.

• Automate deployments using Jenkins, ArgoCD, and modern CI/CD pipelines.

• Build scalable infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code and cloud automation best practices.

• Collaborate with software engineering teams to improve platform reliability, scalability, and performance.

• Contribute to GitOps, platform automation, and Kubernetes operational excellence.

• Troubleshoot production issues and optimize containerized workloads.

Required Skills:

• 5+ years of Cloud Engineering or Platform Engineering experience

• Strong Kubernetes expertise

• Experience with AWS EKS and/or Azure AKS

• Experience building, deploying, and managing Kubernetes clusters

• Strong programming experience in Java or Golang

• Experience with Jenkins and CI/CD pipelines

• Experience with Docker and containerized applications

• Strong understanding of Cloud Infrastructure, DevOps, and Platform Engineering

Preferred Skills:

• Experience building Kubernetes Operators and Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs)

• Go or Python SDK development

• ArgoCD and GitOps experience

• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or similar)

• Open-source Kubernetes ecosystem experience

• Experience developing scalable cloud-native applications