Senior AWS Engineer: Helm & EKS Specialist (Mentorship)

Egreenservices; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 129,000 - 187,000; Full time

Job summary

Chevron in Arlington, VA is seeking an AWS Engineer to join a small, opinionated engineering team focused on delivering reliable systems and rapid Helm-based experimentation.

The ideal candidate has 6+ years of hands-on estimation, a Bachelor's degree or equivalent, and senior judgment to navigate scope changes while shipping features end-to-end with product and design teams. Arlington-based role with competitive benefits.

Qualifications

• 6+ years standing behind your own estimates
• Bachelor's degree in a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• Senior-caliber judgment about when to elevate and when to absorb
• Strong multitasking ability without sacrificing quality
• Comfort owning the unglamorous middle of an internship project
• The grit to debug at 4pm on a Friday without complaint
• Demonstrated calm when an Arlington, VA client changes scope mid-stream

Responsibilities

• Backfill Elasticsearch test coverage on the riskiest corners of Chevron's codebase
• Tune Grafana caching so Chevron survives the Arlington launch spike on the same hardware
• Ship Helm experiments fast, kill the losers, and double down on what sticks
• Chase down the PostgreSQL integration that silently drops Chevron events at midnight
• Translate the forever-learning Amazon EKS outage into fixes that make the next Arlington launch dull
• Collaborate with product and design teams to ship features end to end
• Review pull requests and uphold engineering standards across the technology team

Skills

6+ years experience

Senior judgment

Multitasking

Calm under pressure

Client management

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

Tools

AWS

Helm

Grafana

PostgreSQL

Amazon EKS

Job description

Chevron in Arlington, VA is seeking an AWS Engineer to join a small, opinionated engineering team focused on delivering reliable systems and rapid Helm-based experimentation.

The ideal candidate has 6+ years of hands-on estimation, a Bachelor's degree or equivalent, and senior judgment to navigate scope changes while shipping features end-to-end with product and design teams. Arlington-based role with competitive benefits.