Senior Cloud Engineer
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Job Description
MatchPoint Solutions is a fast-growing young energetic global IT-Engineering services company with clients across the US. We provide technology solutions to various clients like Uber Robinhood Netflix Airbnb Google Sephora and more! More recently we have expanded to working internationally in Canada China Ireland UK Brazil and India. Through our culture of innovation we inspire build and deliver business results from idea to outcome. We keep our clients on the cutting edge of the latest technologies and provide solutions by using industry-specific best practices and expertise.
We are excited to be continuously expanding our team. If you are interested in this position please send over your updated resume. We look forward to hearing from you!
Senior Cloud Engineer
Omaha NE
Remote
6 months contract
Pay $ 65 to 70/hr
Role Overview
- Sr. Engineer. This role is part of Strategic Resourcing services and is a contract role. The candidate will be supporting a customer and will be employed by one of preferred partners. The partner will provide full compensation and benefit information prior to employment with the partner. The Senior Cloud Engineer will work collaboratively with our cloud engineering team to evaluate design and implement improvements for service reliability fault tolerance and observability. The primary objective is to enhance our production-grade platform ensuring increased reliability resilience and security.
Key Responsibilities
- Assess the current AWS infrastructure specifically EKS and Istio service mesh architecture to identify resilience gaps.
- Optimize EKS and Istio configurations to strengthen reliability bolster security and improve traffic control.
- Develop and maintain infrastructure automation using Terraform for consistent reliable and repeatable AWS deployments.
- Design optimize and manage CI/CD pipelines in GitLab to support secure resilient and automated application delivery.
- Plan implement and manage Karpenter-based auto scaling for cost efficiency and enhanced resilience of Amazon EKS workloads.
- Enhance EKS configuration to enable Automode simplifying cluster operations.
- Implement certificate management and automation processes to streamline rotation and minimize operational risk.
- Configure Artifactory in a multi-node cluster to ensure high availability and resilience.
- Configure and deploy AWS Resilience Hub to continuously validate the resilience posture of the platform.
- Improve observability using AWS CloudWatch and Dynatrace for proactive monitoring and logging to detect and resolve reliability issues. Required Skills & Experience
- 8 years experience in cloud infrastructure with at least 5 years of hands-on experience in AWS/EKS.
- Extensive knowledge of AWS infrastructure services including Resilience Hub Auto Scaling Elastic Load Balancing (ALB/NLB) Route 53 CloudWatch CloudTrail S3 RDS VPC endpoints and other AWS services supporting Amazon EKS.
- Deep expertise in Amazon EKS (architecture scaling security Auto-mode Karpenter).
- Experience designing and managing GitOps deployments with Argo CD.
- Proven proficiency with Istio Service Mesh (ingress egress traffic routing mTLS policies).
- Strong understanding of resilience engineering concepts (high availability disaster recovery fault tolerance).
- Proficient in Infrastructure-as-Code particularly Terraform.
- Knowledgeable about monitoring and observability stacks especially Dynatrace.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD implementation using GitLab. Preferred Qualifications
- Prior experience working in regulated industries (banking finance insurance).
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional or equivalent certification.
- Kubernetes Certified Administrator (CKA) or Service Mesh certifications.
- Strong communication skills and demonstrated ability to work in cross-functional teams.
MatchPoint Solutions provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race color religion age sex national origin disability status genetics protected veteran status sexual orientation gender identity or expression or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local laws.
This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment including recruiting hiring placement promotion termination layoff recall transfer leaves of absence compensation and training.
Employment Type
Full-time
