Cloud Engineer — Kubernetes & Go, Contract with Mentorship

Energy Innovation Corp; Hot Springs (AR); On-site; USD 71,000 - 108,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mentorship

Flexible contract schedule

Benefits

Job summary

Energy Innovation Corp in Hot Springs, AR is hiring a Cloud Engineer who treats latency budgets like personal grudges and mentors like a second language. The role centers on ownership, with a salary range of $71,000–$108,000 and a flexible contract schedule.

You will wrangle Go configurations, catch Kubernetes race conditions, and drive a GitOps workflow across production and staging while collaborating across teams to keep systems resilient during peak traffic.

Qualifications

• Experience with cloud-native environments and Kubernetes-based deployments.
• Strong written and verbal communication, able to document decisions clearly.
• Ability to work independently and in a collaborative, cross-functional team.

Responsibilities

• Wrangle Go configurations across environments so Hot Springs staging mirrors production.
• Catch Kubernetes race conditions that surface under peak traffic.
• Trace bugs across three Kubernetes services to the root cause and fix them.
• Translate ideas into a disaster recovery prototype and ensure it is ready for production use.
• Maintain GitOps workflows to keep the production environment stable during holidays and peak loads.
• Coordinate changes safely behind feature flags for quick rollbacks in Hot Springs, AR.
• Spike an Amazon ECS PoC to aid quick decision-making for stakeholders.
• Read and trace cost optimization traces to identify root causes.

Skills

Go programming

Kubernetes

GitOps

Communication

Tools

Amazon ECS

Job description

Energy Innovation Corp in Hot Springs, AR is hiring a Cloud Engineer who treats latency budgets like personal grudges and mentors like a second language. The role centers on ownership, with a salary range of $71,000–$108,000 and a flexible contract schedule.

You will wrangle Go configurations, catch Kubernetes race conditions, and drive a GitOps workflow across production and staging while collaborating across teams to keep systems resilient during peak traffic.