Kubernetes Container Platform Support Tech Lead

What You Will Do
Provide hands-on support for existing environments to include performance of the following related tasks: software installation, patch installation, upgrades, query writing, configuration, security, system monitoring and tuning, disaster recovery planning, and release deployments.
Responsible for managing and upgrading Amazon EKS clusters
Implement tools and automation for build, configuration management, continuous integration (CI), deployment, and application monitoring.
Automate and evolve infrastructure, deployment strategies and testing to support a quick turnaround of deployments.
Maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) responsible for provisioning, configuring, and scaling infrastructure in cloud environments
Work closely with Engineering to ensure all relevant KPI’s are implemented within the monitoring framework.
Participate in all Production Support activities during incidents and outages. Hands-on technical resource capable of resolving all technical issues within lower and upper environments and making recommendations for performance and capacity improvements.
Participate in capacity planning, tuning systems stability, provisioning, performance, and scaling of the application infrastructure.
The desire to resolve issues for a 24x7 environment in a non-impacting yet fast-paced resolve time.
Skills and Experience Needed Required:
7 years of experience with tech stack in AWS:
Elastic Kubernetes / ElastiCache / KMS
Networking: VPC / Subnets / Route Tables / Security Groups / Flow Logs
Compute: EC2 / AutoScaling / Load Balancers
Database: SQL / RDS / Dynamo / PostgreSQL
Other: IAM / S3 / CloudWatch / CloudFront / Pulsar / Elasticsearch
Working experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or AWS CloudFormation
Experience working with third-party vendors
Able to work effectively, both independently and as a member of a cross-functional team
Demonstrate a desire to automate as much as possible
Able to participate in on-call rotation
Desired:
Containerization technologies: Docker or Podman
Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery tools: AWS CodePipeline, Azure DevOps
Linux system administration – ability to manage and troubleshoot Linux systems and services, bash scripting
Networking: solid understanding of routing and networking concepts
Experience working in an Agile development environment
Web Servers: Nginx or Apache configurations and reverse proxies
Collaboration platforms such as JIRA, Confluence, Wiki, ServiceNow
Education:
Bachelor’s degree required; relevant, equivalent work experience may be substituted for degree requirement