Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Eliassen Group; Englewood (CO); Hybrid; Confidential; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits

401k with company matching

Life insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in hybrid Denver-area, CO. You will own Kubernetes-based infrastructure on AWS, design and manage EKS clusters, and build GitLab CI/CD pipelines to support a high-velocity video service integration environment.

You will document architectures, drive incident resolution, and optimize cost and performance while applying security best practices and ensuring seamless deployment workflows.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of hands-on AWS experience across EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, ELB, Route 53, CloudWatch.
• Strong experience with Kubernetes and AWS EKS including provisioning, workload management, Helm, and pod or node troubleshooting.
• Proven ability to debug complex networking and routing issues in cloud environments.
• Proficiency with GitLab CI/CD including pipelines, runners, artifacts, and environments.
• Ability to work under deadlines with effective communication across teams.
• 2 to 5 years of relevant DevOps or cloud engineering experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, provision, and manage AWS EKS clusters including node groups, autoscaling, and upgrades.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI/CD for application and infrastructure deployments.
• Troubleshoot infrastructure issues across VPCs, subnets, route tables, load balancers, DNS, security groups, IAM, and connectivity.
• Investigate and resolve build and deployment failures from source through running workloads.
• Manage and optimize S3 configurations including lifecycle policies, access controls, replication, and cost.
• Perform resource optimization, right-size instances, analyze cost allocation, and eliminate waste.
• Implement and maintain security best practices including least-privilege IAM, network segmentation, pod security, and secrets management.
• Monitor cluster health, configure alerting, and drive incident response.
• Document infrastructure architecture, runbooks, and operational procedures.

Skills

AWS

Kubernetes

GitLab CI/CD

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

GitLab CI/CD

Helm

Job description

Description

Hybrid 4 onsite / 1 work from home in Greenwood Village, CO

Our client seeks a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to own the lifecycle of Kubernetes-based infrastructure on AWS. You will design and manage EKS clusters, build and maintain GitLab CI/CD pipelines, troubleshoot networking and deployment issues, implement security best practices, and optimize cost and performance. You will document architectures and procedures and drive incident resolution. This role supports a video service integration environment with high release volume and significant automation investment.

Due to client requirements, applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.

Rate: $55.00 to $58.00/hr. w2

Responsibilities

• Design, provision, and manage AWS EKS clusters including node groups, autoscaling, and upgrades.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI/CD for application and infrastructure deployments.
• Troubleshoot infrastructure issues across VPCs, subnets, route tables, load balancers, DNS, security groups, IAM, and connectivity.
• Investigate and resolve build and deployment failures from source through running workloads.
• Manage and optimize S3 configurations including lifecycle policies, access controls, replication, and cost.
• Perform resource optimization, right-size instances, analyze cost allocation, and eliminate waste.
• Implement and maintain security best practices including least-privilege IAM, network segmentation, pod security, and secrets management.
• Monitor cluster health, configure alerting, and drive incident response.
• Document infrastructure architecture, runbooks, and operational procedures.

Experience Requirements

• 3+ years of hands-on AWS experience across EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, ELB, Route 53, and CloudWatch.
• Strong experience with Kubernetes and AWS EKS including provisioning, workload management, Helm, and pod or node troubleshooting.
• Proven ability to debug complex networking and routing issues in cloud environments.
• Proficiency with GitLab CI/CD including pipelines, runners, artifacts, and environments.
• Ability to work under deadlines with effective communication across teams.
• 2 to 5 years of relevant DevOps or cloud engineering experience.