Role: EKS Engineer (Kubernetes Engineer)

Location:   Dallas-Tx(need locals)

Exp:8 years

Jd:

Must have skills:

· Kubernetes(EKS), Docker, AWS (S3, ECS, EC2, EFS, EBS, RDS, OpenSearch, ECR, EMR,

IAM, ELB, Secrets Manager, KMS, Lambda, Autoscaling, CloudWatch, etc.)

· At least 5 years of experience in developing cloud-native applications preferably using AWS (EKS, S3, ECS, EC2, EFS, EBS, RDS, OpenSearch, ECR, EMR, etc.)

· Hands-on experience with provisioning, maintaining, and deploying Kubernetes clusters in production environments, preferably AWS EKS

· Designing and implementing scalable solutions in a cloud environment leveraging cloud enterprise technology and services in AWS such as VPC, IAM, ELB, EC2, EKS, ECR, S3, EFS, WAF, EBS, EMR, Secrets Manager, KMS, RDS, IAM, Autoscaling, CloudWatch, OpenSearch and etc. using IAC tools AWS CLI or Cloud formation

· Continuously evaluate various parts of the platform for opportunities for security hardening and improvements in observability Evaluate new technologies and industry trends, develop proofs-of-concept, and present findings

· Identify the best cloud architecture options to help Verizon accomplish its strategic goals

Design, implement, and run security solutions to detect vulnerabilities and misconfigurations at the various layers of the cloud infrastructure (virtual machines; containers; network, cloud environment).

· Integrate Application code/image scanning tools such as SonarQube, HPE Fortify, Twistlock, and Black Duck through the Jenkins CI/CD pipeline to automatically flag security vulnerabilities or policy violations to developers in their code before it’s deployed.

· Identify new tools/technologies that will make the release and SCM process more efficient, repeatable, reliable,

and cost-effective.

· Configure Identity and Access Management (IAM) users, roles, and policies.

· Must have a deep understanding of Kubernetes and Docker architecture and associated tools

· Ability to debug issues with Kubernetes clusters and complex applications hosted on k8s/EKS.

· Experience with writing Helm Charts, Kubernetes manifest files, and docker files

· Experience in migrating applications from On-premise bare metal to AWS EKS and supporting Hybrid environments

· Create and manage Elastic Block Storage (EBS), S3 buckets, and Enable versioning & amp; Life cycle management policies on S3 buckets.

· Experience with observability, alerting, and tracing of distributed systems using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, etc

· Must be able to develop and maintain continuous integration and continuous deployment systems using tools like Git, GitHub, Jenkins, and Helm

· Infrastructure as Code development and deployments

EKS Engineer:

• EKS admin – rancher and need someone who has data plane and control plane exp.
• Create proxys and policies
• Manages infrastructure of Kubernetes
• EKS – Kubernetes container. platform as a service for AWS (Service within AWS)

They don’t want someone who builds infrastructure, just someone who has worked on EKS and knows it well

Preferred Certifications:

· Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

· AWS Certification preferred