EKS Infrastructure Engineer Architect Roji

• EKS Architecture: Proven experience in architecting EKS environments.
• Deployment Experience as Platform Engineer: Demonstrated expertise in deploying platforms on EKS.
• CI/CD Pipelines: Experience with CI/CD pipelines and proficiency in using testdriven frameworks.
• Security: Strong background in hardening EKS Security for both Cluster and Applications.
• EKS Platform Automation: Expertise in EKS Platform automation for effective Cluster lifecycle management (CRUD).
• Helm / Kustomize: Proficient in using Helm and Kustomize for Application lifecycle management and K8s addons.
• Kubernetes Fundamentals: Working knowledge of underlying K8s components such as CNI kubelet kubeproxy and CoreDNS.
• Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Experience with IaC using the GitOps model (Flux Flagger).
• AWS Identity Management: Familiarity with IAM Permission Boundaries and IRSA.
• PKI and Certificate Management: Experience with PKI and Certificate Management using certmanager in the K8s ecosystem.
• Policy Management: Knowledge of OPA/Gatekeeper/Kyverno Policy Management.
• Troubleshooting: Experience with troubleshooting using AWS services like CloudTrail and CloudWatch.
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• EKS Architecture Design: Experience in designing and implementing EKS architecture through automation for both Single and Multitenant clusters.
• Development/Programming Skills: Strong programming skills in Python Terraform Ansible and Golang.
• Agile Teams: Experience working in Agile Teams.
• AWS EC2 Instance Deployments: Experience orchestrating AWS EC2 Instance deployments in an enterprise setting.
• Reference Architecture Documentation: Experience in creating and managing reference architecture documentation.
• Service Mesh Technology: Experience managing the lifecycle of Istio Service Mesh (Community Edition) or equivalent service mesh technology.
• MultiMesh Technology: Knowledge of multimesh technology is a plus.
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• Design and build EKS clusters for Verizon IT applications facilitating migrations and new deployments.
• Apply existing cloud design policies and practices to the EKS technology stack.
• Enhance and contribute to existing and new EKS architectures.
• Develop tooling and selfservice capabilities.
• Integrate automation workflows into CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins Ansible Terraform GitLab and OneArtifactory) using the GitOps Model.
• Collaborate with developers and partner infrastructure teams to enhance the developer experience.

• B.S. or higher in Computer Science Computer Engineering Information Technology Information Systems or related technical degree.
• CKA or relevant Kubernetes Certification (Nice to Have).

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