DevOps Kubernetes Engineer

Bridgeview - Lakewood, CO

Full-time - Mid Level

Remote - Lakewood, CO

Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries

About the position

The DevOps Kubernetes Engineer will be responsible for deploying, managing, and optimizing Kubernetes and AWS EKS clusters to support scalable, secure, and high-performing environments. This role involves automating infrastructure, collaborating on CI/CD pipelines, and troubleshooting Kubernetes resources to ensure efficient operations in SaaS products.

Responsibilities

• Oversee deployment, configuration, and management of Kubernetes clusters with a focus on scalability, security, and efficient resource utilization.
• Deploy, run, and manage AWS EKS clusters, utilizing auto-scaling tools like Karpenter to ensure optimal performance and availability.
• Use Terraform to manage and automate infrastructure as code, ensuring consistent and reproducible environments.
• Collaborate with CI/CD tools like ArgoCD, FluxCD, and GitLab to automate and enhance deployment processes, supporting Kubernetes-based SaaS product releases.
• Monitor and troubleshoot Kubernetes resources using kubectl and related tools, optimizing deployments, load balancers, networking, and core components for reliability and performance.

Requirements

• 5+ years of Kubernetes experience
• 2+ years of experience with AWS EKS and familiarity with deploying, running, and maintaining EKS clusters including using different auto-scalers like Karpenter.
• Proficient in kubectl commands.
• Full understanding of different Kubernetes resources like Deployments, ReplicaSets, StatefulSets, DaemonSets, etc.
• Comfort working with core components, services, load balancing, and networking in Kubernetes.
• Exposure to Terraform, ArgoCD, FluxCD, Gitlab, and using Kubernetes in SaaS products is highly desirable, but not required.
• Must possess the ability to work collaboratively in teams, while communicating thoughts, concerns, and ideas professionally.
• Willingness to work with stakeholders to help clarify requirements and to positively influence technical direction through technical designs.
• Ability to be flexible to changing priorities.

Nice-to-haves

• Exposure to Terraform, ArgoCD, FluxCD, Gitlab, and using Kubernetes in SaaS products is highly desirable, but not required.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental & Vision on your first day
• 4% match on 401(k)
• Life Insurance
• Short & Long-Term Disability
• employee perks
• paid subscription to the Calm app
• cashback available through thousands of vendors (Ace Hardware, Verizon, Overstock.com, and more)