Job Description
Key Requirements:
- 5+ years as an EKS / Kubernetes Cluster Admin
- Experience with Helm and production-scale clusters
- Exposure to CI/CD pipeline environments
✅ Top priority: Strong, hands-on EKS cluster admin experience
What are the top 3 skills required for this role?
1. k8s admin
2. AWS fundamentals
3. Dynatrace / datadog
Job Description/ Responsibilities:
- 4+ years managing Kubernetes clusters in production (EKS preferred)
- Hands-on experience with GitOps tooling — Flux CD and/or Argo CD
- Proficiency writing Terraform modules and Helm charts
- Experience building CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or equivalent)
- Strong AWS fundamentals — VPC, IAM, EC2, MSK, EKS node groups
- Working knowledge of observability platforms (Datadog, Dynatrace, or similar)
- Comfort operating in Agile/sprint-based engineering teams
Nice to Have:
- Experience with Linkerd or other service mesh technologies
- Familiarity with Jsonnet or CUE for configuration management
- Hands-on FinOps or cluster cost optimisation experience (Kubecost, ScaleOps)
- Experience migrating ingress controllers at scale
- Amazon MSK administration and Kafka operations knowledge
- Okta or SSO/IdP integration experience
- Blue-green or canary deployment patterns for Kubernetes upgrades
- Familiarity with application architecture (Java and or Python)