Platform Engineer/Cloud Engineer

Our client is looking for a Platform/Cloud Engineer with solid experience working with Kubernetes and containerised workloads, CI/CD tools and in building and supporting apps running on AWS

Requirements:

AWS Associate level certification or substantial years of experience

Preferred Kubernetes Application Developer certification or substantial years of experience

Be familiar with Kubernetes Administrative tasks

Experience with IaC tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation or CDKS

Experience with Kubernetes GitOps practises and using tools such as ArgoCD / Flux or Helm / Kustomize

Experience monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch

Must have good understanding of the following services and/ or concepts:

AWS (EKS, VPC, S3, RDS, IAM, Fargate, Lambda, CloudFront) and Well Architected Frameworks

Observability and Monitoring (Xray, CloudWatch, Open Tracing, Grafana)

Kubernetes (EKS) experience

DevOps Practices and CI/CD Tools (AWS DevOps Tools, Jenkins)

Cloud Native Toolsets (Helm, Kustomize)

Containerisation

Programming languages (Python, Go, Java, JavaScript)

Linux experience

Distributed systems and architectures

Responsibilities:

CI/CD with Jenkins pipelines as code or similar (Github Actions, Azure DevOps)

Kubernetes Administration (Ingress, networking, RBAC)

Enhancing monitoring and observability (SLO, SLI, SLA) and alerting

Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) user (Terraform, CloudFormation, Crossplane)

Release management and oversite