Senior AWS Cloud Platform Engineer
Location: Naperville, IL (M & F Remote; Tues to Thurs In office)
Key Responsibilities
Kubernetes & Container Platform Engineering
· Deploy, manage, and troubleshoot workloads across AWS EKS and Azure AKS environments.
· Design and maintain Kubernetes clusters throughout their lifecycle.
· Manage Kubernetes networking, ingress controllers, service meshes, pod communication, and traffic routing.
· Troubleshoot complex issues involving pods, nodes, networking, DNS, storage, and cluster scalability.
· Implement high availability and disaster recovery strategies for Kubernetes platforms.
GitOps & Continuous Delivery
· Design and manage enterprise-scale GitOps workflows using Argo CD.
· Automate deployments and environment promotion strategies.
· Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions.
· Define and enforce Git branching strategies and release management practices.
· Improve deployment reliability, rollback capabilities, and release governance.
· AWS Cloud Engineering
Strong hands-on experience with:
· EKS
· EC2
· Route 53
· IAM
· CloudFront/CDN
· ALB & NLB
· VPC & Networking
· Security Groups & NACLs
· Secrets Manager
· ElastiCache (Redis)
· S3
· CloudWatch
· RDS
· Autoscaling & High Availability Architectures
Responsibilities include:
· Designing secure and scalable cloud architectures.
· Implementing disaster recovery and business continuity solutions.
· Optimizing cloud cost, performance, and reliability.
· Managing multi-account AWS environments.
