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.
