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
- Understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) concepts
