6 months contract to hire

Must be AWS Certified/Kubernetes Administrator Certified

Job Description:
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

About US Tech Solutions:
US Tech Solutions is a global staff augmentation firm providing a wide range of talent on-demand and total workforce solutions. To know more about US Tech Solutions, please visit www.ustechsolutions.com.

US Tech Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

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