Leading a modernization discovery for a high-scale consumer mobile platform, the full-time Lead Kubernetes Engineer will manage a multi-cluster production EKS estate, focusing on upgrade automation, compute strategy, and technical leadership in a remote environment.
Key responsibilities
• Build a complete baseline of a multi-cluster production EKS estate, covering inventory, topology, and Kubernetes version status
• Design and implement an upgrade approach to automate the upgrade cycle and reduce manual processes
• Lead the execution of a modernization program, including multi-cluster architecture design and compute capacity strategy
Required qualifications
• 8+ years in DevOps, SRE, Platform, or Infrastructure Engineering, with 4+ years operating production Kubernetes
• Deep production experience with Amazon EKS at large scale, including ownership of EKS version upgrades
• Advanced production experience with Karpenter and strong understanding of EC2 instance families and generations
• Experience migrating production workloads to Graviton or other ARM64 platforms
• Advanced proficiency with Terraform and experience with observability tools like Datadog or Prometheus