Senior Cloud / Kubernetes Engineer
Summary
Onsite contract role in Scottsdale, AZ for a senior cloud/Kubernetes engineer: designing and running production-grade AWS EKS platforms, leading cloud/Kubernetes migrations, and optimizing cost and performance. Core stack includes Docker, CI/CD and GitOps (Helm, Argo CD/Flux) and observability with Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry.
Location: Scottsdale, AZ (Onsite)
Duration: Contract
Job Description:
- 7-10 years of hands‑on AWS cloud engineering experience
- Strong expertise with Kubernetes/EKS and Docker
- Experience designing and running production‑grade EKS platforms
- Led cloud and Kubernetes migrations to production
- CI/CD and GitOps experience (Helm, Argo CD / Flux preferred)
- Strong understanding of cloud networking, security, and DevOps
- Experience building highly available, scalable systems
- Observability experience with Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry
- Cost and performance optimization (autoscaling, Spot, FinOps mindset)
- Exposure to AI/ML or GPU workloads on EKS/SageMaker is a plus
- Comfortable mentoring engineers and partnering with clients/stakeholders