EKS Engineer

A financial firm is looking for an EKS Engineer to join their team. 

This role is 5 days/week onsite in one of the following locations: Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Richmond, Atlanta, Chicago, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Kansas City, Dallas, or San Francisco

Pay: $120-130/hr

Top 5 Required Skills:

• EKS: 5-6 years of experience 
• Terraform
• Gitlab
• Ansible: Should be able to create playbooks
• Packer

Responsibilities:

• Develops conceptual, logical and physical IT engineering designs, that support the infrastructure requirements of varying levels of technical and business application projects
• Completes analysis of business requirements, as it relates to technical infrastructure design, and ensure traceability of the design to the business requirements
• Assesses testing requirements and prepares testing strategies, as well as preparing implementation and transition plans
• Responsible for understanding and applying risk management discipline in decision making, and contributing to his or her functions risk management
• Works under direction with infrequent checks; follows established methods and clear-cut policy
• Makes decisions when general instructions or established methods indicate action to be taken
• Performs resolution of complex hardware and problems affecting application systems; Initiates problem avoidance actions
• Prepares detailed specifications from which programs will be written; Analyzes and revises existing system logic and documentation as necessary
• Recommends solutions to minimize and/or prevent system interruption
• Performs change and problem management using standard tools following firm change management policies and procedures for software/hardware propagation to other platforms and/or environments
• May indirectly lead moderately complex projects, and participate on technical/complex projects; Provides project updates, and prepares management reports as required
• Follows and ensures adherence to technical standards for programming and design techniques; Trains computer operations and System technical staff on use of software/hardware tools in accordance with required standards and procedures
• Assists with monitoring compliance with internal audit requirements and Information Security Manual guidelines

Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree or equivalent experience with 3 to 5 years of relevant work experience
• Highly Proficient with Amazon Web Services including EKS and other container based services with a min of 5 years of experience working with AWS services and specifically EKS
• Highly proficient with Agile work environment and use of GitLab and similar source control and deployment technologies
• Proficient with Terraform and other IaC technologies
• Well versed with Ansible Automation and in general automation technologies
• Well Versed with Packer and similar tools for building Virtual Machine Images
• May require extended work hours - Occasional travel including overnight stays may be necessary; May be subject to on-call and call back as needed
• May be exposed to moderate noise from equipment