Devops Engineer

Job Summary:

DevOps Engineer with 3+ years of expertise in AWS EKS

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, deploy, and manage

  AWS EKS clusters

  in production environments.
• Experience with

  GitHub trunk-based development workflows.

• Manage

  Kubernetes workloads

  (Deployments, Services, ConfigMaps, Secrets, Ingress, etc.).
• Implement and manage

  CI/CD pipelines

  using GitHub Actions / Jenkins / Argo CD / CodePipeline.
• Deploy and maintain

  Helm charts

  for microservices, and manage service discovery and routing.
• Configure and maintain

  Kubernetes Ingress controllers

  (ALB/NGINX),

  cert-manager

  , and

  external-dns

  .
• Ensure secure secret management using

  AWS Secrets Manager / External Secrets

  .
• Monitor EKS clusters and services using

  Prometheus, Grafana, and AWS CloudWatch

  .
• Configure and optimize

  logging pipelines

  using

  Fluent Bit / CloudWatch Logs

  .
• Use

  Karpenter or Cluster Autoscaler

  for node scaling, and implement

  HPA

  for workload scaling.
• Enforce policies and security best practices using

  IAM, OPA Gatekeeper/Kyverno, and KMS

  .
• Handle cost optimization, alerting, and compliance using

  AWS Budgets, Cost Explorer, and GuardDuty

  .
• Collaborate with development teams to containerize and onboard microservices using

  Docker + ECR

  .
• Troubleshoot performance, network, and application-level issues across distributed environments.

Required Skills & Experience:

• 3+ years hands-on with

  AWS EKS and Kubernetes ecosystem

  .
• Strong experience with

  Terraform, Helm, Docker, GitOps (Argo CD/Flux)

  .
• Deep understanding of AWS services:

  VPC, IAM, EC2, EBS, ELB, CloudWatch, Secrets Manager, S3, Route 53

  .
• Hands-on experience with

  Prometheus, Grafana, Fluent Bit

  , and

  AWS monitoring tools

  .
• Experience with

  multi-environment (dev/stage/prod)

  setups and

  blue-green / canary deployments

  .
• Solid knowledge of

  DevSecOps practices

  , IAM policies, and Kubernetes RBAC.
• Experience with

  troubleshooting microservices, pods, and networking in EKS

  .
• Scripting in

  Bash, Python, or Go

  for automation and tooling.

• Mandatory:

  Strong understanding and practical experience with

  GitHub trunk-based development workflows

  , including

  feature flags, short-lived branches, protected main branches, and continuous integration best practices

  .

Good to Have:

• Experience with

  service mesh

  (Istio, App Mesh, Linkerd).
• Familiarity with

  OpenTelemetry / Jaeger

  for distributed tracing.
• Exposure to

  multi-tenant EKS clusters

  and cost reporting per namespace/team.
• Certifications:

  AWS Certified DevOps Engineer / Solutions Architect Associate

  .