Senior AWS/EKS Engineer

Location:

Berkeley Heights, NJ Salary:

$140,000.00 USD Annually - $160,000.00

USD Annually Description:

Senior AWS/EKS Engineer Location:

Berkeley Heights, NJ (Onsite, 5 days a week)

Employment Type:

Full-Time About the Role We're looking for a Senior AWS/EKS Engineer to help power our cloud infrastructure and digital/mobile applications. In this role, you'll collaborate with engineering, product, and support teams to automate deployments, keep production environments resilient, and tackle incidents head-on. Your expertise will ensure our platforms stay reliable, scalable, and high-performing as we continue to grow. What You'll Be Doing Provide hands-on support for production environments: installations, upgrades, patches, configuration, security, and releases. Manage and optimize Amazon EKS clusters and containerized workloads, including scaling and troubleshooting. Build automation for CI/CD pipelines, configuration management, deployments, and monitoring. Maintain and evolve Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform or CloudFormation to streamline cloud provisioning. Act as a technical lead during incidents, diagnosing and resolving issues quickly while recommending improvements. Drive capacity planning, performance tuning, and infrastructure stabilization with KPIs integrated into monitoring frameworks. What We're Looking For 6+ years in application operations, site reliability, or cloud infrastructure engineering within AWS. 5+ years of hands-on AWS experience (EKS, EC2, VPC, CloudWatch). 4+ years working with IaC tools like Terraform or CloudFormation. Experience with monitoring tools (Splunk, Dynatrace, CloudWatch) and managing TLS certificates/OpenSSL. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field-or equivalent experience. Bonus Skills That Impress Us Familiarity with CI/CD tools (AWS CodePipeline, Azure DevOps, GitLab). Strong Linux administration and scripting (Bash), plus experience with Nginx/Apache. Solid understanding of networking/routing and experience collaborating with vendors in production support. By providing your phone number, you consent to: (1) receive automated text messages and calls from the Judge Group, Inc. and its affiliates (collectively "Judge") to such phone number regarding job opportunities, your job application, and for other related purposes. Message & data rates apply and message frequency may vary. Consistent with Judge's Privacy Policy, information obtained from your consent will not be shared with third parties for marketing/promotional purposes. Reply STOP to opt out of receiving telephone calls and text messages from Judge and HELP for help.

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