AWS / Kubernetes Engineer

Highbrow LLC; Berkeley Heights (NJ); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology solutions company in Berkeley Heights, NJ is seeking an AWS/Kubernetes Engineer with significant experience in AWS technologies. In this long-term role, you'll support existing systems, manage EKS clusters, and develop infrastructure automation. Candidates must have 5+ years in the field, a bachelor's degree, and a desire to automate processes. This is an opportunity to work in a challenging environment with a focus on continuous improvement and performance optimization.

Qualifications

• 5 years of experience with AWS technologies.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform or AWS CloudFormation.
• Solid understanding of networking concepts.

Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on support for existing environments.
• Manage and upgrade Amazon EKS clusters.
• Automate and evolve infrastructure and deployments.

Skills

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

Linux system administration

Networking

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Docker

JIRA

Confluence

Job description

Job Title: AWS / Kubernetes Engineer

Job ID: 2024-12816

Job Location: Berkeley Heights NJ

Job Travel Location(s):

# Positions: 2

Employment Type: W2

Duration:Long Term

# of Layers:0

Work Eligibility:All Work Authorizations are Permitted – No Visa Transfers

Key Technology:Container Platforms, IAAS, Networks, Kubernetes, ARO

Job Responsibilities:

• Provide hands‑on support for existing environments to include performance of the following related tasks: software installation, patch installation, upgrades, query writing, configuration, security, system monitoring and tuning, disaster recovery planning, and release deployments.
• Responsible for managing and upgrading Amazon EKS clusters
  Implement tools and automation for build, configuration management, continuous integration (CI), deployment, and application monitoring.
• Automate and evolve infrastructure, deployment strategies and testing to support a quick turnaround of deployments.
• Maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) responsible for provisioning, configuring, and scaling infrastructure in cloud environments
• Work closely with Engineering to ensure all relevant KPI’s are implemented within the monitoring framework.
• Participate in all Production Support activities during incidents and outages. Hands‑on technical resource capable of resolving all technical issues within lower and upper environments and making recommendations for performance and capacity improvements.
• Participate in capacity planning, tuning systems stability, provisioning, performance, and scaling of the application infrastructure.
• The desire to resolve issues for a 24×7 environment in a non-impacting yet fast‑paced resolve time.

Skills and Experience Required:

Required:

• 5 years of experience with tech stack in AWS:
• Elastic Kubernetes / ElastiCache / KMS
• Networking: VPC / Subnets / Route Tables / Security Groups / Flow Logs
• Compute: EC2 / AutoScaling / Load Balancers
• Database: SQL / RDS / Dynamo / PostgreSQL
• Other: IAM / S3 / CloudWatch / CloudFront / Pulsar / Elasticsearch
• Working experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or AWS CloudFormation
• Experience working with third‑party vendors
• Able to work effectively, both independently and as a member of a cross‑functional team
• Demonstrate a desire to automate as much as possible
• Able to participate in on‑call rotation

Desired:

• Containerization technologies: Docker or Podman
• Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery tools: AWS CodePipeline, Azure DevOps
• Linux system administration – ability to manage and troubleshoot Linux systems and services, bash scripting
• Networking: solid understanding of routing and networking concepts
• Experience working in an Agile development environment
• Web Servers: Nginx or Apache configurations and reverse proxies
• Collaboration platforms such as JIRA, Confluence, Wiki, ServiceNow

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree required; relevant, equivalent work experience may be substituted for degree requirement