Cloud Engineer

Position Title: Senior Cloud Engineer Location: Omaha, NE Period: 6 months (fixed) 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. • 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 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.