Cloud Infrastructure Engineer – Hybrid on AWS/EKS | GitLab CI/CD

Eliassen Group; Greenwood Village (CO); Hybrid; USD 76,000 - 80,000; Part time

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in Colorado to own Kubernetes-based infrastructure on AWS. You will design and manage EKS clusters, build GitLab CI/CD pipelines, and optimize security, cost, and performance.

The role requires strong networking and cloud experience in a fast-paced video service environment. The position is a hybrid contract role with W2 benefits, including medical/dental/vision and a 401(k) with company matching.

Qualifications

• 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.
• 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

Networking

Cost optimization

Incident response

Tools

Helm

GitLab CI/CD

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in Colorado to own Kubernetes-based infrastructure on AWS. You will design and manage EKS clusters, build GitLab CI/CD pipelines, and optimize security, cost, and performance.

The role requires strong networking and cloud experience in a fast-paced video service environment. The position is a hybrid contract role with W2 benefits, including medical/dental/vision and a 401(k) with company matching.