Senior Cloud / Kubernetes Engineer

Arkhya Tech Inc.; Scottsdale (AZ); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Arkhya Tech Inc. is seeking a senior cloud engineer in Scottsdale, AZ (onsite) to design and operate production-grade AWS-based Kubernetes platforms.

You will lead migrations to production, implement CI/CD and GitOps pipelines, and optimize costs and performance with autoscaling and spot instances. The ideal candidate has 7-10 years of hands-on AWS cloud engineering experience, strong networking and security skills, and proficiency with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana and

Qualifications

• 7-10 years hands-on AWS cloud engineering experience.
• Strong expertise with Kubernetes/EKS and Docker.
• Experience designing and running production-grade EKS platforms.
• Led cloud and Kubernetes migrations to production.
• CI/CD and GitOps experience (Helm, Argo CD / Flux preferred).
• Strong understanding of cloud networking, security, and DevOps.
• Experience building highly available, scalable systems.
• Observability experience with Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry.
• Cost and performance optimization (autoscaling, Spot, FinOps mindset).
• Exposure to AI/ML or GPU workloads on EKS/SageMaker is a plus.
• Comfortable mentoring engineers and partnering with clients/stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and operate production-grade EKS platforms on AWS.
• Lead migrations of cloud workloads to Kubernetes in production.
• Build and optimize CI/CD and GitOps pipelines (Helm, Argo CD / Flux).
• Enhance observability using Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry.
• Ensure cost-effective runtime with autoscaling and spot instances.

Skills

AWS

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD

GitOps

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Autoscaling

FinOps

Mentoring

Client collaboration

Tools

Kubernetes / EKS

Docker

Helm

Argo CD

Flux

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

SageMaker

Job description

Location: Scottsdale, AZ (Onsite)

Duration: Contract

Job Description:

• 7-10 years of hands‑on AWS cloud engineering experience
• Strong expertise with Kubernetes/EKS and Docker
• Experience designing and running production‑grade EKS platforms
• Led cloud and Kubernetes migrations to production
• CI/CD and GitOps experience (Helm, Argo CD / Flux preferred)
• Strong understanding of cloud networking, security, and DevOps
• Experience building highly available, scalable systems
• Observability experience with Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry
• Cost and performance optimization (autoscaling, Spot, FinOps mindset)
• Exposure to AI/ML or GPU workloads on EKS/SageMaker is a plus
• Comfortable mentoring engineers and partnering with clients/stakeholders