[Remote] Sr. AWS DevOps Engineer- Kubernetes Expertise

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Cloudelligent is an AWS Premier Consulting Partner helping organizations modernize, migrate, and innovate in the cloud. They are seeking a Sr. AWS DevOps Engineer with Kubernetes expertise to build and deploy complex cloud environments, ensuring the infrastructure is scalable, secure, and compliant. The role involves working closely with a team to promote automation and improve operational practices.

Responsibilities

• Work alongside a team of DevOps Engineers to architect, build, and deploy AWS cloud infrastructure that is redundant, resilient, scalable, self-sustaining, and self-healing
• Promote infrastructure as code and automation as much as possible. To achieve this, you must have extensive knowledge of the DevOps tool sets like Terraform, Cloudformation, CircleCI, Gitlab, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes
• Design, build, and maintain our Kubernetes infrastructure, including clusters, namespaces, and deployments
• Work on projects independently with customers and stakeholders, gathering their requirements and informing them of new features and enhancements
• Create and improve current operational practices and procedures
• Ensure the implementation and maintenance of compliance and security practices in operational infrastructure
• Responsible for training and mentoring junior DevOps engineers and new team members

Skills

• Bachelor's in software/computer engineering, computer science or related field
• Effective communication skills (proficiency in English language)
• 5+ years of professional experience in DevOps engineering
• 4+ years of using CI/CD tools (Jenkins, CircleCI, Gitlab, or similar)
• Experience in Infrastructure as code (Terraform / Cloudformation/CDK) and using container orchestration tools (Kubernetes/EKS or ECS, Rancher, etc.)
• Experience of using configuration management tools (Puppet, Ansible, etc.) and working with containers (Docker or Docker-Compose, etc.)
• Experience of using Scripting when necessary (Bash, Python, Ruby, Go or Javascript, etc.)
• Self-driven, ability to work independently or as part of a project team with limited supervision
• Strong hands-on expertise with solution architecting environments in AWS cloud space
• Strong hands-on experience with code pipeline design, development, and managing CI/CD workflows and tools
• Comprehensive understanding and hands-on experience of core DevOps concepts (CI/CD, Agile & Automation)
• Extensive experience in designing, deploying, and managing Kubernetes clusters in production environments
• Expertise in containerization technologies such as Docker, including creating Docker images, managing Docker registries, and configuring Docker runtime environments
• Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools such as Prometheus, Opentelemetry, Grafana, ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)
• Extensive knowledge and hands-on experience of IP networking, VPN's, DNS, load balancing, and firewall
• Extensive knowledge and hands-on experience with designing a secure infrastructure using current cloud-native security standards
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate/Professional and/or AWS Certified DevOps Professional
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

Company Overview

• Cloudelligent provides cloud services & consulting partner managed services. It was founded in 2018, and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is https://cloudelligent.com/.

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