AWS EKS Platform Engineer
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AWS EKS Engineer
London / Belfast, UK (Hybrid – 3 Days Office)
Contract: 12 Months
Role Overview
We are seeking an experienced AWS EKS Engineer to join a large-scale enterprise infrastructure program focused on building, securing, and operating Kubernetes platforms on AWS.
This is a highly technical hands-on engineering role requiring deep expertise in AWS EKS, Kubernetes platform architecture, networking, security hardening, automation, and infrastructure engineering.
The successful candidate will play a key role in designing, building, and scaling enterprise-grade Kubernetes environments supporting mission-critical workloads.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, build, and manage AWS EKS clusters in production environments
- Develop scalable Kubernetes platform architectures
- Design and implement Kubernetes networking solutions including:
- VPC CNI
- Calico
- Cilium
- Ingress/Egress controls
- Service exposure
- Design and implement Kubernetes storage solutions:
- EBS
- EFS
- CSI Drivers
- Build and support multi-tenant Kubernetes environments
- Implement Kubernetes security controls including:
- IAM
- IRSA
- RBAC
- Network Policies
- Zero Trust Architecture
- Automate infrastructure provisioning using Terraform
- Implement GitOps deployment practices using Argo CD
- Partner with Platform Engineering, DevOps and SRE teams
- Drive platform reliability, observability and performance improvements
- Contribute to platform governance, standards and best practices
Required Experience
- 10+ years of Infrastructure / Cloud Engineering experience
- Strong hands-on AWS EKS platform build experience
- Strong Kubernetes administration and engineering expertise
- Experience building and managing production EKS clusters
Preferred Skills
- Service Mesh technologies
- Istio
- Linkerd
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- OpenTelemetry
- SRE Practices
- CI/CD Automation
- Enterprise Platform Engineering
Interview Process
⚠ Mandatory Face-to-Face Interview at Infosys Delivery Centre
Candidates must be comfortable attending an in-person interview as part of the selection process.