EKS Engineer

A financial firm is looking for an EKS Engineer to join their team. This role is 5 days/week onsite in one of the following locations: Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Richmond, Atlanta, Chicago, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Kansas City, Dallas, or San Francisco Pay: $120-130/hr Top 5 Required Skills • EKS: 5-6+ years of experience • Terraform • Gitlab • Ansible: Should be able to create playbooks • Packer Responsibilities: • Develops conceptual, logical and physical IT engineering designs, that support the infrastructure requirements of varying levels of technical and business application projects • Completes analysis of business requirements, as it relates to technical infrastructure design, and ensure traceability of the design to the business requirements • Assesses testing requirements and prepares testing strategies, as well as preparing implementation and transition plans • Responsible for understanding and applying risk management discipline in decision making, and contributing to his or her functions risk management • Works under direction with infrequent checks; follows established methods and clear-cut policy • Makes decisions when general instructions or established methods indicate action to be taken • Performs resolution of complex hardware and problems affecting application systems; Initiates problem avoidance actions • Prepares detailed specifications from which programs will be written; Analyzes and revises existing system logic and documentation as necessary • Recommends solutions to minimize and/or prevent system interruption • Performs change and problem management using standard tools following firm change management policies and procedures for software/hardware propagation to other platforms and/or environments • May indirectly lead moderately complex projects, and participate on technical/complex projects; Provides project updates, and prepares management reports as required • Follows and ensures adherence to technical standards for programming and design techniques; Trains computer operations and System technical staff on use of software/hardware tools in accordance with required standards and procedures • Assists with monitoring compliance with internal audit requirements and Information Security Manual guidelines Qualifications: • Bachelors Degree or equivalent experience with 3 to 5+ years of relevant work experience • Highly Proficient with Amazon Web Services including EKS and other container based services with a min of 5 years of experience working with AWS services and specifically EKS • Highly proficient with Agile work environment and use of GitLab and similar source control and deployment technologies • Proficient with Terraform and other IaC technologies • Well versed with Ansible Automation and in general automation technologies • Well Versed with Packer and similar tools for building Virtual Machine Images • May require extended work hours - Occasional travel including overnight stays may be necessary; May be subject to on-call and call back as needed • May be exposed to moderate noise from equipment