Senior Technical Specialist

Job description

The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience building, operating, and scaling cloud-native platforms, supporting Kubernetes-based workloads, and improving automation, observability, deployment reliability, and system performance. This role requires a strong technical foundation, practical experience with modern infrastructure tooling, and the ability to communicate effectively with engineering, security, and operations teams. **Key Responsibilities** - Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and highly available infrastructure on AWS. - Manage and operate Kubernetes workloads using Amazon EKS. - Develop, maintain, and improve infrastructure as code using Terraform. - Support and optimize cloud-native services including AWS MSK, networking, compute, storage, IAM, and monitoring services. - Build automation using Python, Unix shell scripts, and other scripting or programming languages. - Improve reliability, availability, performance, and operational efficiency across production systems. - Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines for application and infrastructure deployments. - Monitor system health, troubleshoot incidents, and participate in root cause analysis. - Collaborate with development teams to improve deployment practices and production readiness. - Create and maintain technical documentation, runbooks, and operational procedures. - Support security, compliance, backup, disaster recovery, and cost optimization initiatives. **Required Skills and Experience** - Excellent knowledge of Amazon EKS, Kubernetes architecture, deployments, services, ingress, autoscaling, and cluster operations. - Excellent knowledge of AWS services and cloud infrastructure best practices. - Hands-on experience with Amazon MSK or Kafka-based streaming platforms. - Expert-level experience with Terraform, including modules, state management, workspaces, and reusable infrastructure patterns. - Good working knowledge of Python, Unix shell scripting, and at least one additional programming or scripting language. - Strong understanding of Linux/Unix systems, networking, DNS, load balancing, and security fundamentals. - Experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting tools such as CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, or similar. - Experience supporting production systems in high-availability environments. - Strong troubleshooting, problem-solving, and incident response skills. - Good verbal and written communication skills. **Preferred Qualifications** - Experience with CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Argo CD, or similar. - Experience with Helm, Kustomize, or other Kubernetes deployment tools. - Familiarity with AWS IAM, VPC, Route 53, ALB/NLB, Lambda, RDS, S3, and CloudFormation. - Experience with container security, secrets management, and vulnerability scanning. - AWS, Kubernetes, or Terraform certifications are a plus. **Soft Skills** - Strong communication and collaboration skills. - Ability to work independently and as part of a cross-functional team. - Detail-oriented with a strong ownership mindset. - Comfortable supporting critical production systems. - Able to explain technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Key Responsibilities The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience building, operating, and scaling cloud-native platforms, supporting Kubernetes-based workloads, and improving automation, observability, deployment reliability, and system performance. This role requires a strong technical foundation, practical experience with modern infrastructure tooling, and the ability to communicate effectively with engineering, security, and operations teams. **Key Responsibilities** - Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and highly available infrastructure on AWS. - Manage and operate Kubernetes workloads using Amazon EKS. - Develop, maintain, and improve infrastructure as code using Terraform. - Support and optimize cloud-native services including AWS MSK, networking, compute, storage, IAM, and monitoring services. - Build automation using Python, Unix shell scripts, and other scripting or programming languages. - Improve reliability, availability, performance, and operational efficiency across production systems. - Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines for application and infrastructure deployments. - Monitor system health, troubleshoot incidents, and participate in root cause analysis. - Collaborate with development teams to improve deployment practices and production readiness. - Create and maintain technical documentation, runbooks, and operational procedures. - Support security, compliance, backup, disaster recovery, and cost optimization initiatives. **Required Skills and Experience** - Excellent knowledge of Amazon EKS, Kubernetes architecture, deployments, services, ingress, autoscaling, and cluster operations. - Excellent knowledge of AWS services and cloud infrastructure best practices. - Hands-on experience with Amazon MSK or Kafka-based streaming platforms. - Expert-level experience with Terraform, including modules, state management, workspaces, and reusable infrastructure patterns. - Good working knowledge of Python, Unix shell scripting, and at least one additional programming or scripting language. - Strong understanding of Linux/Unix systems, networking, DNS, load balancing, and security fundamentals. - Experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting tools such as CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, or similar. - Experience supporting production systems in high-availability environments. - Strong troubleshooting, problem-solving, and incident response skills. - Good verbal and written communication skills. **Preferred Qualifications** - Experience with CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Argo CD, or similar. - Experience with Helm, Kustomize, or other Kubernetes deployment tools. - Familiarity with AWS IAM, VPC, Route 53, ALB/NLB, Lambda, RDS, S3, and CloudFormation. - Experience with container security, secrets management, and vulnerability scanning. - AWS, Kubernetes, or Terraform certifications are a plus. **Soft Skills** - Strong communication and collaboration skills. - Ability to work independently and as part of a cross-functional team. - Detail-oriented with a strong ownership mindset. - Comfortable supporting critical production systems. - Able to explain technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Skill Requirements The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience building, operating, and scaling cloud-native platforms, supporting Kubernetes-based workloads, and improving automation, observability, deployment reliability, and system performance. This role requires a strong technical foundation, practical experience with modern infrastructure tooling, and the ability to communicate effectively with engineering, security, and operations teams. **Key Responsibilities** - Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and highly available infrastructure on AWS. - Manage and operate Kubernetes workloads using Amazon EKS. - Develop, maintain, and improve infrastructure as code using Terraform. - Support and optimize cloud-native services including AWS MSK, networking, compute, storage, IAM, and monitoring services. - Build automation using Python, Unix shell scripts, and other scripting or programming languages. - Improve reliability, availability, performance, and operational efficiency across production systems. - Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines for application and infrastructure deployments. - Monitor system health, troubleshoot incidents, and participate in root cause analysis. - Collaborate with development teams to improve deployment practices and production readiness. - Create and maintain technical documentation, runbooks, and operational procedures. - Support security, compliance, backup, disaster recovery, and cost optimization initiatives. **Required Skills and Experien