Job Title: AWS Engineer

Duration: 12+ Months

Location: Kansas City

Key Skills & Technologies

AWS Core Services: EKS, EC2, VPC, Security Groups (SG), ALB/NLB, CloudWatch, IAM, Secrets Manager
Kubernetes: Pod lifecycle, HPA, resource limits, rollout strategies, multi-pod traffic behavior
CI/CD: Deployment scripts, quality gates, deployment strategies; GitLab, Helm
Observability: OpenTelemetry (OTEL), percentile-based analysis, latency analysis, log correlation
Real-time systems (preferred): WebSocket lifecycle, low-latency audio/streaming constraints

Responsibilities

Deploy and run services reliably on EKS using Helm, environment-driven configurations, health checks, and rollout/rollback strategies
Debug deployment, connectivity, and latency issues using CloudWatch, logs, and metrics (network timeouts, firewall rules, CPU/memory sizing, and infrastructure components)
Build dashboards for application observability
Tune runtime performance
Automate operations using infrastructure as code
Create automated alerts for performance thresholds
Secure runtime configurations, including secrets integration with deployment pipelines, auditability, and encrypted storage

Core Competencies

Systems thinking: Connect application behavior with infrastructure behavior
Incident response: Quickly triage, isolate issues, and identify resolution paths
Reliability: Proactively improve system reliability
Cross-team communication: Coordinate environment changes to minimize impact on teams and uptime
Change safety: Execute gradual changes with proper testing, validation, and rollback readiness

Nice-to-Have

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