Sr DevOps Engineer with Amazon EKS , ISTIO - Denver CO - Onsite Work - Locals only at this time - 5 positions

Sr DevOps Engineer with Amazon EKS , ISTIO - Denver CO - Onsite Work - Locals only at this time

Requisition Name: C&DE-CMT-Sr DevOps Engineer

Start Date: 4/6/2026

Duration: 29 Weeks

Services Location: CO/Denver

Max Rate: $ 60 phr on w2 or 65 $ phr on Corp- Corp all inc

Description Of Services:
We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer with strong experience in AWS, Kubernetes (EKS), ArgoCD, autoscaling, and cloud-native deployments.

The role requires deep expertise in deployment automation, HPA tuning, release reliability, networking, observability, and rollback strategies for large-scale microservices platforms handling high throughput workloads. This role will support mission-critical systems requiring safe deployments, dynamic scaling, performance tuning, and production stability.

Key Responsibilities

Manage and optimize Amazon EKS clusters

Configure and tune:

Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA)

Cluster Autoscaler

Resource limits / requests

Manage Istio service mesh

Traffic routing

Circuit breaker

Retry / timeout policies

VirtualService / DestinationRule

Gateway configuration

Implement safe deployment strategies:

Blue-Green

Canary

Rolling update

Traffic shifting using Istio / Argo Rollouts

Automated rollback

Automate infrastructure using:

Terraform / CDK / CloudFormation

Bash / Python / Shell scripting

Manage AWS services:

EKS

DynamoDB

S3

IAM

Route53 / DNS

Lambda

CloudWatch

SNS / SQS / EventBridge

Configure logging, monitoring, and alerting

Implement release readiness validation checks

Support production deployments and rollback

Optimize infrastructure for:

Performance

Cost

Scalability

Implement automation for:

Cluster health checks

Deployment validation

Environment readiness

Rollback triggers

Work with development teams to support:

Microservices deployments

Containerization

Performance tuning

Failure recovery

Required Skills

Kubernetes / EKS / Istio

Strong experience with Amazon EKS

Strong experience with Istio service mesh

Experience configuring:

VirtualService

DestinationRule

Gateway

Sidecar

Circuit breaker

Retry / timeout

Experience with Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA)

Experience with Cluster Autoscaler

Experience with Helm / Kustomize

Experience with ArgoCD / Argo Rollouts / GitOps

Deployment & Release

Blue-Green deployments

Canary deployments

Traffic shifting using Istio

Rollback strategies

GitOps workflows

Release automation

AWS Services

DynamoDB

S3

IAM

Route53 / DNS

CloudWatch

Lambda

ELB / ALB / NLB

Automation / Scripting

Bash

Python

Shell scripting

YAML / JSON

Terraform / CDK / CloudFormation

Networking

TCP/IP fundamentals

DNS

VPC / Subnets

Security groups

Load balancers

TLS / SSL certificates

Service mesh networking concepts

Observability / Logging

Datadog / Splunk / Prometheus / Grafana

Metrics dashboards

Alerting setup

Log aggregation

Production Support

Deployment troubleshooting

Rollback handling

Incident response

Capacity planning

Performance tuning

Preferred / Nice to Have

Kafka / streaming systems

High TPS / real-time systems

DynamoDB capacity tuning

Cost optimization in AWS

Multi-cluster / multi-region EKS

Release automation tooling

Service mesh performance tuning

Deliverables:
-Process Flows -Mentor and Knowledge transfer to client project team members -Participate as primary, co and/or contributing author on any and all project deliverables associated with their assigned areas of responsibility -Participate in data conversion and data maintenance -Provide best practice and industry specific solutions -Advise on and provide alternative (out of the box) solutions -Provide thought leadership as well as hands on technical configuration/development as needed. -Participate as a team member of the team -Perform other duties as assigned.