AWS Kubernetes engineer

Required Qualifications

Experience 5 years in cloud engineering with 3 years deep in AWS services and platform automationIaC Strong with Terraform workspaces modules state management Terragrunt optional and CloudFormation including CDK optional testing with tools like Terratest or cfn lintContainers Production experience with Kubernetes EKS RBAC IRSA Ingress Service Mesh Helm Karpenter Cluster Autoscaler and ECS task definitions capacity providersCICD and GitOps Hands on with GitHub Actions runners protection rules Argo CD Helm Kustomize artifact repos ECR and promotion workflows across environmentsIAM and Security Expertise in IAM policy design role assumption OIDC KMS Secrets Manager network security groups and security scanning in pipelinesNetworking Solid understanding of VPC design routing DNS Route 53 load balancing ALB NLB and private connectivity VPC endpoints PrivateLinkScripting Proficiency in at least one language such as Python Bash or Go for automation and toolingVersion Control Strong Git practices pull request workflows and code review discipline

Preferred Qualifications

Argo CD advanced patterns multicluster RBAC SSO AppSetsService Mesh Istio App Mesh Karpenter Flux or CrossplanePolicy as Code with OPA Gatekeeper or Conftest AWS Organizations Control Tower SCPsObservability stacks Prometheus Grafana Loki Tempo OpenTelemetrySecurity frameworks CIS Benchmarks NIST ISO 27001 and tooling Trivy Grype CheckovData and eventing services RDS Aurora DynamoDB SQS SNS Kafka MSKCompliance in regulated environments and familiarity with FinOps practicesCertifications AWS Solutions Architect or DevOps Engineer Professional CKA CKAD