AWS Devops Engineer

Role overview

Key responsibilities

• Design containerization strategies and lead migration of existing workloads to Docker/Kubernetes environments on Amazon EKS.
• Deploy, configure, operate, and support EKS workloads, including Kubernetes resources, ingress, RBAC, secrets/configuration, scaling, and availability.
• Build, optimize, and manage Docker images and Dockerfiles using secure and efficient practices.
• Develop and maintain reusable Helm charts, including templating, configuration management, versioning, upgrades, and rollback strategies.
• Implement and support Argo CD-based GitOps delivery and synchronize Kubernetes environments with source-controlled configurations.
• Design and automate AWS infrastructure with Terraform, including reusable modules and lifecycle management.
• Use AWS services relevant to EKS workloads, including IAM, VPC/networking, load balancing, registries, autoscaling, storage, security, and observability.
• Plan and execute workload migrations emphasizing scalability, resilience, security, performance, and minimal deployment risk.
• Troubleshoot Kubernetes/EKS workloads, networking, resource utilization, configuration, and deployment failures.
• Collaborate across application, infrastructure, security, and DevOps teams to improve automation and reliability.

Mandatory skills

• Strong hands-on Amazon EKS/Kubernetes experience managing production workloads.
• Strong container workload design and migration experience, including migration from traditional hosting.
• Strong Docker expertise covering Dockerfiles, image optimization, registries, and troubleshooting.
• Hands-on ability to create and maintain production-grade Helm charts.
• Strong AWS experience relevant to EKS-based applications.
• Strong Terraform experience, including modules, state, variables, data sources, workspaces, and reusable patterns.
• Good understanding of DevOps/CI/CD, source control, automated deployments, and release management.
• Hands-on Argo CD and GitOps experience.
• Strong Linux and Kubernetes troubleshooting skills.

Additional desirable skills

• Monitoring, logging, alerting, and production troubleshooting with Prometheus, Grafana, AWS CloudWatch, or equivalent tools.
• EKS autoscaling and node management, such as managed node groups or Karpenter.
• Container security, vulnerability scanning, Kubernetes security controls, IAM/RBAC, and secrets management.
• Shell or Python scripting and automation.
• Experience supporting highly available, business-critical container platforms.

Compensation

• The posting gives a base compensation range of 70000 to 95000 for the posted location, without stating a pay cadence.
• Additional variable incentives, bonuses, or commissions may be available depending on position and applicable law.

Benefits

• The posting describes a benefits package for regular full-time employees, with eligibility and offerings determined by local policy.
• Benefits may include paid time off, healthcare coverage or provincial healthcare coordination in Canada, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance, and employee assistance programs.