Position Title: Senior Cloud Engineer
Location: Omaha, NE
Period: 6 months (fixed)
Key Responsibilities
- Assess the current AWS infrastructure, specifically EKS and Istio service mesh architecture, to identify resilience gaps.
- Optimize EKS and Istio configurations to strengthen reliability, bolster security, and improve traffic control.
- Develop and maintain infrastructure automation using Terraform for consistent, reliable, and repeatable AWS deployments.
- Plan, implement, and manage Karpenter-based auto scaling for cost efficiency and enhanced resilience of Amazon EKS workloads.
- Enhance EKS configuration to enable Automode, simplifying cluster operations.
- Implement certificate management and automation processes to streamline rotation and minimize operational risk.
- Configure and deploy AWS Resilience Hub to continuously validate the resilience posture of the platform.
- Improve observability using AWS CloudWatch and Dynatrace for proactive monitoring and logging to detect and resolve reliability issues.
Required Skills & Experience
- 8+ years’ experience in cloud infrastructure, with at least 5 years of hands-on experience in AWS/EKS.
- Extensive knowledge of AWS infrastructure services, including Resilience Hub, Auto Scaling, Elastic Load Balancing (ALB/NLB), Route 53, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, S3, RDS, VPC endpoints, and other AWS services supporting Amazon EKS.
- Deep expertise in Amazon EKS (architecture, scaling, security, Auto-mode, Karpenter).
- Experience designing and managing GitOps deployments with Argo CD.
- Proven proficiency with Istio Service Mesh (ingress, egress, traffic routing, mTLS, policies).
- Strong understanding of resilience engineering concepts (high availability, disaster recovery, fault tolerance).
- Proficient in Infrastructure-as-Code, particularly Terraform.
- Knowledgeable about monitoring and observability stacks, especially Dynatrace.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD implementation using GitLab. Preferred Qualifications
- Prior experience working in regulated industries (banking, finance, insurance).
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional or equivalent certification.
- Kubernetes Certified Administrator (CKA) or Service Mesh certifications.
